The Baha'i Faith

[zanOTK]

I guess my main questions are:

1) what do you have in mind when you say oneness?

and, 2) why you feel/believe oneness requires god?


Then, if I'm not prying too much, were you raised to believe in god or gods? If not, why did you seek it out.

Thanks.

You'e not prying too much at all.

So, to answer your first question, which oneness are you referring to? Oneness of God, Oneness of Humanity, or Oneness of Religion? By Oneness of God is meant there is only One God. By Oneness of Humanity is meant that we are all one race, the human race. By Oneness of Religion is meant that all religions are part of the ever evolving One Religion of God, which grows and reveals more as we mature as a species.

As for your second question, obviously Oneness of God requires a belief in God, lol. Oneness of Humanity doesn't, however. Oneness of Religion, as understood by Baha'is, does, though, since it relies on the concept that God is revealing more to us as we mature.

And yes, I was raised to believe in God. Just, not the way I believe now. I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian home. So, the kind of things I'm talking about now were not only not believed, they were believed to be things of the devil. I became disillusioned with the Christian church at 17 (for reasons I would rather not divulge here), and started looking at other paths. Nothing really worked for me, and I was considering just giving up on religion and becoming agnostic/atheist. Then I started reading about the Baha'i Faith, it made sense (to me), and I decided to give it a go. So far, it's working.