Dear Larry
It seems that you have a generic problem with the truth claims of
religions
, not just those of the Baha'i Faith: the "arrogance" of Baha'u'llah is
the
arrogance of Muhammad, Christ, etc. Have you been engaging with the
adher
ents of the other belief systems as you have with us on this issue?
Regards
Sizwe.
--- On Sat, 12/4/08, diamondsouled <rowe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> From: diamondsouled <rowe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Subject: Re: Baha'i Arrogance
> To: bahai-faith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Saturday, 12 April, 2008, 9:36 AM
> Hi Paul,
>
> "If I sincerely do my best, am I to be condemned if I
> do not come out
> where somebody else -- and that pointedly includes
> Baha'u'llah -- says
> that I ought to?'
>
> I believe that this is the exact problem with the
> absolutization of
> any person's personal spiritual experiences whether
> that individual is
> Baha'u'llah, Buddha, Muhammad, or whomever. What
> inevitably ends up
> occurring is that you get Buddhists who believe that
> Buddha's POV is
> the all in all, Christians who believe that Christ's
> POV is the all in
> all, Muslims that believe that Muhammad's POV is the
> all in all,
> Baha'is who believe that Baha'u'llah's POV
> is the all in all, etc.,
> etc..
>
> The thing with individual spiritual experiences is that
> they are tied
> directly into the cultural norms which exist where and when
> those
> experiences occur so they are each unique and in many ways
> are like
> comparing apples and oranges.
>
> Buddha's POV is radically different from
> Baha'u'llah's, there isn't
> even a god or a soul present in Buddha's POV and there
> is no honest
> way to reconcile this difference and the attempts of
> Baha'is to claim
> that Buddha was a Manifestation of God makes a mockery of
> what Buddha
> actually believed and taught.
>
> IMHO a genuine recognition of the common validity of all
> spiritual
> paths has to go deeper than this Baha'i over
> simplification which
> attempts to force all spiritual systems to fit within the
> confines of
> it's own religious POV, within the confines of a
> progressive
> revelation supposedly directed by their god, the god of
> Abraham.
>
> Cheers
>
> Larry Rowe
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