Tumah
Veteran Member
No, its not too shabby and its exactly what Christianity and Islam does as well to lend authenticity to their claims. The Christian NT is replete with quotes from Tanach. The Qur'an is basically a confused version of Tanach. And like both of those, they claim to replace the previous way of becoming close to G-d.Exactly. You just updated the model. Still a car in the same line. Or video game system. Or style of music. Even still, especially with styles of music, people can and often times do gain a better, uhhh...more appreciative, understanding and even liking of the older stuff because of the newer stuff. It's not that the subsequent genre or religion replaced the former one, not at all, Tumah.
To further illustrate my point, let's talk music, you and I. As a Black American, my people are notable in this respect.
In the beginning, there was The Blues (well, actually, there were slave songs, but for all intents and purposes, we'll start with The Blues).
Then around what, the 1940's?, various individuals, began tinkering with The Blues, adding jazz, elements from a style called ‘boogie woogie’, African-American spirituals, and gospel. From this interplay of very related elements developed ‘Rhythm and Blues’ or Classic R & B. The Blues still was there. Nothing was replaced, something new was just created.
Now, we approach the 50's. Among various a cappella Black groups since the 40's, a style of music called ‘Doo-Wop’ was gaining popularity. The early 50's roll around, and a brand new, wild sound was built from R & B, Gospel, Doo-Wop, and even incorporating elements from Country music. This style was called ‘Rock and Roll’. Another style, pioneered by one Ray Charles, rooted in Gospel, R & B, Jazz, and Boogie Woogie, was called ‘Soul’. Again, dear Tumah, we see something new being created, but still the previous styles remain in all their splendor, although they started to get a bit old-school.
Theeeeen...in came the 60's! Old-school Rock and Roll was pretty much was declining at this point. Then, a group of four dudes from Liverpool, England completely revolutionized it....forever. The Beatles kicked off The British Invasion, which looked back to the past to forever alter Rock music history! Initially, though, they stuck with the Old-school Rock and Roll formula. This decade marks the point where Rock and Roll became ‘Rock’. As the 60's went on, The Blues, R & B, Gospel, Jazz, all these styles are still developing, still alive, but people then just loved Rock...a lot. As for Soul, with the tireless efforts of The Godfather, James Brown, Soul music became groovier. His efforts, along with the influences of Psychedelic Rock, birthed a style known as ‘Funk’. Again, all the previous styles still remained seperately present.
From the 60's into the 70's and 80's, Rock music diversified and Soul, now Funk, was brewing something danceable that later became gritty, a fluid, storytelling style of music called ‘Hip Hop’. Hip Hop DJ's, early on (and even today) became known for a technique called sampling, which took records from older styles and re-played them, often using the beats to create breaks in which people would dance. And the records Hip Hop DJ's used came from everywhere, but mostly Funk and Disco. Funk was still there, but Disco died out, later being revived seperately. Later on into the 90's, the sampling base widened encompassing Jazz, Rock, Soul, and a bunch of others, even Country. This even sparked the creation of different subgenres of (90's, now) Alternative Hip Hop. All the previous styles had remained, but they were old-school.
Hip Hop, in the 90's and early 2000's, now influenced EVERYTHING. Many fans of Hip Hop and other modern styles of music, because of this sampling, have developed an appreciation and respect for those old-school styles of music. Some even love them, sometimes prefering those older styles to Modern Hip Hop and other sample-inspired genres!
‘What was the point of this?’, you ask, Tumah. Well, the essential point was that even though newer religions come along, they don't necesarily replace the previous religions, not at all. Just like Hip Hop didn't replace Funk necessarily, just built off of it. Hip Hop (and Vaporwave) sampling actually became an important way that Funk, and Soul, and Jazz, and Gospel, and The Blues became more appreciated and more glorious, even though they're old-school.Just like the Bahá’í Faith doesn't replace Judaism, and Christianity, and Islam, it actually serves to further make them more palatable to people today, more able to be honored and appreciated today. Of course, as well, the older religions are still keeping on. They still exist, and that's very groovy! You have to understand Judaism, Christianity, and (especially) Islam if one wishes to understand the Bahá’í Faith, but, of course, many times that's how it goes with Abrahamic religions, right?
A quick note, but something Bahá’u’lláh did in His day was He encouraged the reading of The Holy Bible among Muslims. Not only that, but He counted The Tanach, The New Testament, and The Qur’an among the Holy Books, even quoting very frequently from them! Another thing is that Bahá’u’lláh then (and Bahá’ís today) count as P/prophets individuals like Abraham, Noah, Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. Not too shabby for a religion you claim tries to make Judaism outdated, enh?
In fact, all you've done in this entire post is give an example of how changing times result in one thing replacing another thing. You're just giving a different reason for the replacement:
Judaism --(not following G-d) --> Christianity --(corrupted texts)--> Islam --(outdated)--> Baha'i
Its all just different excuses for supercessionism.
