CG Didymus
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Well, we were talking about cherry-picking verses and giving them a meaning that suits the Baha'i objective of showing that their prophets were prophesied in the Bible over 2000 years ago. Again, I'll use the example of Isaiah 7:14. The context makes this boy that was born of either a virgin or maybe just a young maiden a sign for King Ahaz. When the boy reached the age when he knew good from bad, whatever that was, the two enemy kings would be dead. The sign was fulfilled a few years later.Depends what you are seeking CG.
Mathew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye. shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh. findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened"
O SON OF BEING! Thou art My lamp and My light is in thee. Get thou from it thy radiance and seek none other than Me. For I have created thee rich and have bountifully shed My favor upon thee. — The Hidden Words, Arabic no. 11
O SON OF SPIRIT! I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting. — The Hidden Words, Arabic no. 13
Regards Tony
The one verse is made to be definitely about a virgin giving birth, the rest of the context ignored, which doesn't describe anything to do with Jesus, and that one verse becomes a prophecy that the Messiah will be born of a virgin? And again, Matthew's, Luke's and the Quran's version of the story all differ, not to mention all the non-canonical birth stories about Jesus.
Baha'is do need and use "fulfilled" prophecy as one of the things that legitimizes Baha'u'llah's claims. It's understandable that you, Bill Sears and other Baha'is will go searching the Bible and other Scriptures that will somehow fit into the Baha'i story. The "Glory of God" fits great. But it's a title he took. Something that could have easily been researched and found to fit into some NT and Bible verses. But does it fit the Scriptures of other religions? The "lamb" is very important in Revelation. But Baha'is have only guesses as to who the Lamb of God is. But maybe it's time to get back to the OP.