Baha'i teachings emphasize the underlying unity of the major world religions. Religious history is seen to have unfolded through a series of divine messengers, each of whom established a religion that was suited to the needs of the time and the capacity of the people.
Humanity is understood to be involved in a process of collective evolution, and the need of the present time is for the gradual establishment of peace, justice and unity on a global scale.
Could this be the Answers to all our problems within?
With all religion, it is like in the commercials: if someone offers a solution for each and every problem in one product, better be very, very suspicious.
I'll stick with my own faith. Unitarian Universalism...we already believe in unity, tolerance, and that all paths lead up the same mountain, but it's a non-prophet organization and that's what I prefer.
Yes. Millions of Baha'is worldwide from every walk of life and from every background are united in a great enterprise to bring a new civilization into being based upon justice and prosperity for every human on the planet. What the Baha'is have achieved, though small in numbers, is unparalleled in human history.
Baha'is believe in one God, known by different names and understood differently by different cultures throughout history; one humanity, one race, the human race; and one religion, eternal in the past, eternal in the future progressively revealed to different people at different times and places through the universal divine educators such as Krishna, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, and today Baha'u'llah. Different lamps; same light.
Religion isn't the answer to religion. Because the Baha'i faith still emphasizes a deity and prophets thereof, I'm inclined to say that it's just as much nonsense and a waste of time as any other religion.
Um...the whole point of that underlying unity is that there won't be an "Ultimate" truth. According to the Bah??u?Lelah, there is no single "final" prophet, no "last" word. As humanity grows and changes, it's relationship with the divine grows and changes and needs to be updated.
Do All Worship the Same God?
?WHO can say that one religion is right and another is wrong?? a teacher asked one of Jehovah?s witnesses in West Africa. ?Here in Africa we see people of many religions going to their church or temple, and you preaching as one of Jehovah?s witnesses. Really, are not all worshiping the same God??
What do you think? Does Almighty God approve of all religions? Does all worship eventually go to the same God anyway? This view is widespread.
?Same God? View Widespread
For example, the Hindu ?holy book,? the Bhagavad Gita, represents God as saying: ?Even those who are devoted to other deities and worship them, filled with faith, they too really worship Me.? The Bahai World Faith considers all the world?s major faiths as part of the same evolving religion, with the same source of wisdom and spiritual power. A clergyman of Christendom said: ?I believe God speaks through all religions.?
Those who hold this view often encourage interfaith. A Bahai leader stated: ?All must abandon prejudices and must even go to each other?s churches and mosques.? Last year the All Africa Council of Churches expressed its desire that new converts might feel equally at ease in any church. The Roman Catholic Church, too, has become involved in interfaith. There are even hopes that one day all mankind will achieve unity of worship through interfaith.
Of course, many still feel that theirs is the most correct form of worship. Others say that ?you should stick with the religion in which you were brought up,? regardless of its teachings. Few who profess Christianity, for example, would feel comfortable worshiping at a Buddhist Wat or a Hindu shrine. Yet what difference should it make, if all worship goes to the same God?
Clearly there is confusion when it comes to the type of worship that God accepts. Is there any source that really tells the truth on this matter?
Why Go to the Bible?
There are many religious books in the world. Some of them claim to be revelations from God. But there is one book of religion that truly inspires the confidence of its readers. That book is the Holy Bible. How is the Bible different from other ?holy? writings?
The Bible is a book of facts. Its historical accounts have won the admiration of scholars because of their accuracy. The Bible is filled with names of persons and places and descriptions of events that have been verified by archaeological investigation. The Genesis account of creation contains none of the fanciful myths found in the literature of pagan nations but presents matters in a straightforward way that agrees with scientific facts. The Bible contains hundreds of predictions that have been fulfilled to the letter. Its counsel on human relations is unequaled. The Bible?s honest presentation of the shortcomings of its characters in addition to their virtues also recommends it as a book of truth. Then there is the marvelous internal harmony of the Bible?s sixty-six books, although recorded by some forty writers over a period of sixteen hundred years.
Does All Worship Go to the Same God?
Does the Bible teach that all worship goes to the same God? Consider what is written at 1?Corinthians 10:20: ?The things which the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God.?
How much of mankind?s religion is of this perverted type? Revelation 12:9 reveals that Satan the Devil ?is misleading the entire inhabited earth.? Noteworthy, too, are the words of Jesus Christ: ?Broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.? (Matt. 7:13, 14) That means that the majority of mankind, in spite of having some form of religion, are not worshiping God acceptably.
Interfaith or True Worship?
In view of this, does Jehovah God approve of interfaith? Jehovah?s law to ancient Israel strictly forbade religious fellowship with the surrounding nations. (Ex. 22:20; 23:32, 33) Is it the same for Christians? Consider what God?s Word says at 2?Corinthians 6:14, 16, 17: ?Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers .?.?. what agreement does God?s temple have with idols? .?.?. ?Therefore get out from among them, and separate yourselves,? says Jehovah.?
One must go to the Bible to learn the distinctive marks of true worship. Let us take note of some of these.
To Moses, God said: ?A prophet I shall raise up for [the Israelites] from the midst of their brothers, like you .?.?. And it must occur that the man who will not listen to my words that he will speak in my name, I shall myself require an account from him.? (Deut. 18:18, 19) Other Bible prophecies show that that ?prophet? would come through the Israelite tribe of Judah in the family of King David and that he would be born in Bethlehem.?Gen. 49:10; 2?Sam. 7:12-16; Mic. 5:2.
Jesus Christ fulfilled those requirements. (Heb. 7:14; Matt. 1:1; 2:1) By his miracles and teachings he proved that he was ?the Christ, the Son of the living God.? (Matt. 16:16) He himself said: ?I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.? (John 14:6) The true religion, therefore, must accept Jesus Christ as God?s chief spokesman in matters of worship.
As an example, Bahais accept Jesus but believe that later spokesmen of God would succeed him and that their teachings would outweigh those of Jesus. For the Bahais, the one succeeding Jesus is a certain Bahaullah of the nineteenth century; for other people, he is another religious leader. But such a succession of prophets after Jesus is not necessary according to what is written of Christ Jesus at Hebrews 7:24, 25:
?He because of continuing alive forever has his priesthood without any successors. Consequently he is able also to save completely those who are approaching God through him, because he is always alive to plead for them.?
Regardless of what my Christian brothers say or believe, if you feel the urge to explore that path, I would encourage you.
Religious diversity is not the anathema fundamentalist Christians believe that it is. Once it dawns on someone that the "goal" of having faith is not salvation, but service, then you are truly set free
if it'll not be forced through our lives cause i still like eating my mothers cakes at night and i don't wanna be punished for it. And don't wanna be united with my neighbor.
No.
Don't think so.
Look in the real world.
Decode this lyrics " Knowing me knowing you"
Just hear-say of the dead Mummy of ghostly ancestor's culture and custom as way of life of tribe of different community which is not even a religion in time.
That has got nothing to do with tribes of different community in time.
If the tribe were so successful then why were they living in misery in time?
Just keep the ghostly ancestor's ghostly stories back in the kitchen where it belong within the community and don't have to expose the misery of own ancestor's to tribes of different community in time.
Keep those cheap-skate ghostly stories within the community without having to embarrass own community in time.
Can the dead Mummy of tribe of different community be greater or better than God in time?
Then who has been making a monkey out of everyone in "Planet of apes"
Luke 21.30-36
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
Luke 9.25,55-56,60
Luke 8.5-8,1-17
Luke 4.4
Genesis 11.1,3-9
John 8.44
Luke 16.13
Matt 23.27
Luke 10.24
Exodus 23.24,32
Exodus 20.1-7
Exodus 20-12
Matt 22.17-21,32
What do you think?
Baha'is believe we are the newest and most updated "Way to Truth". But even we don't ourselves believe that we are the *ultimate*, that is to say final, way to truth. The Baha'i Faith is the first religion in history to predict its own replacement with the eventual coming of another Manifestation.
Is the Bah?'? Faith the ultimate way to truth?
