Popeyesays
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"A great stumbling block to many, in the way of religious
unity, is the difference between the Revelations given by the
different Prophets. What is commanded by one is forbidden by
another; how then can both be right, how can both be proclaiming
the Will of God? Surely the truth is One, and cannot
change. Yes, the Absolute Truth is One and cannot change, but
the Absolute Truth is infinitely beyond the present range of human
understanding, and our conceptions of it must constantly
change. Our earlier, imperfect ideas will be by the Grace of
God replaced, as time goes on, by more and more adequate
conceptions. Bahá'u'lláh says, in a Tablet to some Bahá'ís of
Persia: --
O people! Words are revealed according to capacity so
that the beginners may make progress. The milk must be
given according to measure so that the babe of the world
may enter into the Realm of Grandeur and be established
in the Court of Unity.
It is milk that strengthens the babe so that it can digest more
solid food later on. To say that because one Prophet is right in
giving a certain teaching at a certain time, therefore another
Prophet must be wrong Who gives a different teaching at a
different time, is like saying that because milk is the best food
for the newborn babe, therefore, milk and nothing but milk
should be the food of the grown man also, and to give any
other diet would be wrong!"
(Dr. J.E. Esslemont, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, p. 122)
Regards,
Scott
"A great stumbling block to many, in the way of religious
unity, is the difference between the Revelations given by the
different Prophets. What is commanded by one is forbidden by
another; how then can both be right, how can both be proclaiming
the Will of God? Surely the truth is One, and cannot
change. Yes, the Absolute Truth is One and cannot change, but
the Absolute Truth is infinitely beyond the present range of human
understanding, and our conceptions of it must constantly
change. Our earlier, imperfect ideas will be by the Grace of
God replaced, as time goes on, by more and more adequate
conceptions. Bahá'u'lláh says, in a Tablet to some Bahá'ís of
Persia: --
O people! Words are revealed according to capacity so
that the beginners may make progress. The milk must be
given according to measure so that the babe of the world
may enter into the Realm of Grandeur and be established
in the Court of Unity.
It is milk that strengthens the babe so that it can digest more
solid food later on. To say that because one Prophet is right in
giving a certain teaching at a certain time, therefore another
Prophet must be wrong Who gives a different teaching at a
different time, is like saying that because milk is the best food
for the newborn babe, therefore, milk and nothing but milk
should be the food of the grown man also, and to give any
other diet would be wrong!"
(Dr. J.E. Esslemont, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, p. 122)
Regards,
Scott