A Comparative Study of the Baha'i Faith

by Zach Manners through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org
This project explores the core doctrines of the Baha'i Faith and its differences and shared features with other traditions.

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[opensourcebuddhism]

Obviously that is just your opinion. Perhaps he is then an avatar of Vishnu? The Bodhisattva of Compassion? The Daoist Jade Emperor? A Ford-maker of the Jains?  Or he is a Jewish prophet? or a Gnostic Divine Consciousness?

I vote for the latter two!

James

[opensourcebuddhism]

I have to agree with copacetic on this one. Buddha was non-theistic. The Baha'is never really explain how to incorporate him or Confucius or Lao-tzu into their scheme. They fail when it comes to the "East" but it works ok for the "West".

James

[BookOfFlaws]

"Jesus said something similar."

And yet miracles happened around Him constantly, and He performed some of them "so that they may believe." Miracles are INEVITABLE around divine men.

There are miracles related in Baha'i history...most famous one being the execution of the Bab."



Read "Miracle of Love." Waaay more miracles from a contemporary Hindu saint.

And yet the Baha'is covered up, even extirpated the writings of the Baba. Baha'u'llah rejected his appointed successor, Everlasting Dawn.

[BookOfFlaws]

"rather they reaffirm that all Prophets of God can perform them.

Yet there are no miracles associated with Baha'u'llah.

"Rather, miracles are not proof of divinity even to those who witness them."

Miracles are a proof of divinity, including to most who witness them. In fact, many people have faith in Jesus Christ because of only the reported miracles, never seen, of 2,000 years ago. You state a falsehood.

All of the great saints have miracles associated with them. Why not your guy?

[aaronlee75]

@BookOfFlaws On miracles...Baha'is do not deny the miraculous, rather they reaffirm that all Prophets of God can perform them. Rather, miracles are not proof of divinity even to those who witness them. Jesus said something similar. There are miracles related in Baha'i history...most famous one being the execution of the Bab. The first volley of 100+ rifles missed him entirely and he was found back in his room completing a letter. He gave his consent the second time when shot.

[BookOfFlaws]

Resurrections exist all through Hindu yogic history as well as healings of all kinds. It's pretty funny when you read the phantasmagorical, unbelievable things that Baha'u'llah says about himself through out the "Kitab-i-Aqdas" -- the multifarious and excessive things he calls himself, then find these Baha'is consider miracles to be too fantastic to believe. One of the miracle-less Baha'u'llah's lies: "Proof and demonstration encompass this Manifestation." No divine proof from him.

[BookOfFlaws]

The world is full of miracles. But Baha'is deny the miraculous. Maybe because Baha'u'llah had no miracles. Another proof that they are a materialistic movement, enablers for the technology-driven banker NWO, and very dissimilar to the other religions. There were many miracles associated with Buddha, not just Christ. Plus most Hindu yogis. The book "Miracle of Love" is loaded with accounts of miracles (multiplication of food, etc.) by a very recent Hindu guru, Neem Karoli Baba.

[BookOfFlaws]

The fact that Baha'is have turned that teaching around backward, now just expeditors of scientific materialism who just want to use science to enslave man (that's what's happening), is scary. The evil NWO of the bankers lauds science as a replacement for religion. Science does not destroy duality. All it does is makes human life unnatural, distorts culture, and gives power to those who have the technology. (Those with the money.) Baha'is have abdicated their role to keep science in check.

[BookOfFlaws]

Baha'i is one of the few religions that teaches that we should not shun the use of Science but rather embrace it for Science

This is backwards from the founders. The Bab and Baha'u'llah were anti-technology. The Bab outlawed the study of science. B-u-L, said that the "infernal" engine (hell engine) would "consume" (destroy) the cities. The original teaching was that science should be SUBJECT to religion and not violate religious principles.