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And I suppose you have a way to show how Baha'u'llah came on a "symbolic" white horse. The symbolism of a white horse was also in many early cowboy movies. A black hat versus a white hat was also very common, which shows all cowboy movies are one.
Then why didn't you do that? All you did was make an allegation ...
To support that allegation you posted a series of quotes from different religions all containing the word "quicken". Carefully reading the quotes showed that all the religions had different meanings for the word "quicken. You own examples give lie to your allegation.
No. People following many religions have been told a savior was coming to take them away from their wretched lives. Furthermore, they were told, if the savior did not come before they died, they would be escorted into heaven or another life or whatever.
No. It supports the idea that many different peoples created many different gods (in their own image) and imagined many different creation stories.
Hiho, Silver! Away!
Because the Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers used many of the same words and expressions, are they one and the same person?
Has the world been renewed? No, almost 200 years of more storms and floods. At best, it's heading towards a major disaster and then maybe a renewal. And then, who is the "Savior"? The Bab or Baha'u'llah? All I ever hear is "1844" but that was not Baha'u'llah. Why isn't his declaration day not the one that is the most prominent? Why isn't that day the one prophesied about?
Year 1844 is important, because, it is the beginning of the new revelation. It began by the Bab...
And also @ManSinha.
Since the creation stories and the religions of different people and cultures are so varied, I agree, it seems more likely that people made up their religion and their gods, rather than one source, one God, telling different people the "truth" that he wanted them to know.
Zorro and Superman are fictional characters created by men with the intention of providing entertainment.
There is mythical gods and then there is fictional characters in comic books and movies. Next, the "Author", I assume you mean God, wrote symbolic expressions you say to relay inner meanings. But, then you say only God can reveal those hidden meanings. And when is that? Now? With Baha'u'llah? That the true meanings were hidden for hundreds and even thousands of years?
Here you act as if the Flood and the Ark were real. But, other times you say they were symbolic. So which is it?
How much fiction and mythology are added in to the stories of these people? Baha'is act as if God was the author, but did Moses and Jesus write anything? Even if they say that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, who wrote the rest? Conveniently, with the New Testament, Baha'is can say that his followers, that were not necessarily eyewitnesses, wrote it. Other times, they can quote things that allegedly were said and taught by Jesus as absolute truth. But, anything that doesn't fit with their beliefs, like Satan and the resurrection, are not fictional or myth, but are symbolic. That way they can say that God inspired these people to write fictional stories, that had some mystical, hidden meaning. And, of course, one the Baha'is know what the hidden meaning is. And they can do this with all the religions. So the only thing that is true and right about any religion is what Baha'is say is true and right about them.