It's been almost 40 years since the Baha'is put out their peace statement... Does anyone know or care about it? It's supposedly from God, by way of Baha'u'llah, Abdul Baha, Shoghi Effendi and now the Universal House of Justice of the Baha'i Faith. I don't even hear Baha'is pushing it and talking it up. Yet, it is supposed to be what the world needs to do to bring peace and unity to the people of the world.
It's your choices that count in your journey CG, not what others have done.
Baha'u'llah envisaged a day such as today when the number of Baha'i seemed insignificant, and that the clamouring of the multitudes would be faced.
Then you say you do not see Baha'i bringing it up, really? Would you like links to the threads started on such a topic just on this one Forum?
After one brings it up and no one listens, what the next charge against a Baha'i if they try to bring that up again.....yes the infamous proselytizing charges.
Damned if you do, Damned if you do not. Which is something others need to address. Personally I will still keep posting Love, Peace and Unity and how we have been advised that goal can be achieved.
This is one example from Baha'u'llah CG.
"... By the righteousness of God! Whoso openeth his lips in this Day and maketh mention of the name of his Lord, the hosts of Divine inspiration shall descend upon him from the heaven of My name, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. On him shall also descend the Concourse on high, each bearing aloft a chalice of pure light. Thus hath it been foreordained in the realm of God’s Revelation, by the behest of Him Who is the All-Glorious, the Most Powerful.
There lay concealed within the Holy Veil, and prepared for the service of God, a company of His chosen ones who shall be manifested unto men, who shall aid His Cause, who shall be afraid of no one, though the entire human race rise up and war against them. These are the ones who, before the gaze of the dwellers on earth and the denizens of heaven, shall arise and, shouting aloud, acclaim the name of the Almighty, and summon the children of men to the path of God, the All-Glorious, the All-Praised. Walk thou in their way, and let no one dismay thee. Be of them whom the tumult of the world, however much it may agitate them in the path of their Creator, can never sadden, whose purpose the blame of the blamer will never defeat.
Go forth with the Tablet of God and His signs, and rejoin them that have believed in Me, and announce unto them tidings of Our most holy Paradise. Warn, then, those that have joined partners with Him. Say: I am come to you, O people, from the Throne of glory, and bear you an announcement from God, the Most Powerful, the Most Exalted, the Most Great. In mine hand I carry the testimony of God, your Lord and the Lord of your sires of old. Weigh it with the just Balance that ye possess, the Balance of the testimony of the Prophets and Messengers of God. If ye find it to be established in truth, if ye believe it to be of God, beware, then, lest ye cavil at it, and render your works vain, and be numbered with the infidels. It is indeed the sign of God that hath been sent down through the power of truth, through which the validity of His Cause hath been demonstrated unto His creatures, and the ensigns of purity lifted up betwixt earth and heaven...."
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh | Bahá’í Reference Library
Who am I to turn away from such a gift?
Regards Tony