RE: Bahai vs. Islam
July 30, 2014 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2014 at 9:30 am by logicalreason.)
Yeah, in the same way Christians consider Abraham and Moses as subservient to Jesus, and Muslims consider Abraham and Moses and Jesus to have been Muslims like Muhammad who's incomplete books were superceded by the perfection of the Quran.
Baha'i writings consider the founders of all religions to actually be progressive founders of really one religion, the Bahai Faith, with a latest/last Manifestation named Bahaullah.
The Bab has said that one word of Bahaullah supercedes all Books revealed by the Bab and previous Figures.
Now how does one **rationalize** this given the widely varied practices and beliefs of "religions" (which to Baha'is are not religions but one religion)?
The word "progressive" does not necessarily mean that they as on top of each other like multiplication adds on top of addition . Maybe "progressive" has an evolutionary connotation, as in the random variations in composition lead to a best composition lasting while a poorer or less efficient composition naturally falls behind and ultimately dies off.
Baha'i writings consider the founders of all religions to actually be progressive founders of really one religion, the Bahai Faith, with a latest/last Manifestation named Bahaullah.
The Bab has said that one word of Bahaullah supercedes all Books revealed by the Bab and previous Figures.
Now how does one **rationalize** this given the widely varied practices and beliefs of "religions" (which to Baha'is are not religions but one religion)?
The word "progressive" does not necessarily mean that they as on top of each other like multiplication adds on top of addition . Maybe "progressive" has an evolutionary connotation, as in the random variations in composition lead to a best composition lasting while a poorer or less efficient composition naturally falls behind and ultimately dies off.
