The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Jorm-

I'll just say this and let it drop because you seem like a nice person whose time has not yet come.

When a police officer or an FBI agent wants to learn how to spot counterfeit currency, does he or she spend a lot of time looking at fake bills? Nope.  They study real bills carefully, and this enables the to spot the fake ones quickly.

Now, by sheer grace of God, I was born into a Protestant Christian family. Later, moved by God, I converted to Catholicism. So, overall, I've spent nearly half a century studying the real deal. Did I do some minor comparative study along the way. Yeah, some. And from an apologetics point of view, I've read a LOT about Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestantism, some on Orthodoxy, and a bit on Islam.

From all of this, I can assure you that I don't need to spend a lot of time studying the Baha'i faith to know that Baha'u'llah was NOT a manifestation of God.

Part of the reason that I'm online doing what I do is so that you don't have to spend 50 years figuring that out.

Just in case anyone was looking for an example, the above is about as good an example of cognitive dissonance as you're ever likely to encounter.