Nice to see you back and thank you for not firing sacred scripture at me with various coloured highlighting, sizes, block letters and underlining.
It feels more like a conversation and discussion when you do that, but of course it up to you how you want to post.
Fair enough. That's a reasonable position to take.
The Baha'is would view the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity from the lens of Baha'u'llah's Revelation. Of course there are problems with the texts. Some are nearly two thousand years old with the NT and obviously much older for the OT.
In regards the NT we have a range of views from the conservative to very liberal Christians. Baha'is would see the truth as lying somewhere in between, and would consider it a matter for study and investigation, rather than providing authoritative pronouncements from on High.
There are however differing Baha'i writings to be considered that provide a framework. For example in response to the Muslims saying the Christians don't have the true gospels in their possession and that it has been fundamentally corrupted, Baha'u'llah refutes this:
We have also heard a number of the foolish of the earth assert that the genuine text of the heavenly Gospel doth not exist amongst the Christians, that it hath ascended unto heaven. How grievously they have erred! How oblivious of the fact that such a statement imputeth the gravest injustice and tyranny to a gracious and loving Providence! How could God, when once the Day-star of the beauty of Jesus had disappeared from the sight of His people, and ascended unto the fourth heaven, cause His holy Book, His most great testimony amongst His creatures, to disappear also? What would be left to that people to cling to from the setting of the day-star of Jesus until the rise of the sun of the Muḥammadan Dispensation? What law could be their stay and guide? How could such people be made the victims of the avenging wrath of God, the omnipotent Avenger? How could they be afflicted with the scourge of chastisement by the heavenly King? Above all, how could the flow of the grace of the All-Bountiful be stayed? How could the ocean of His tender mercies be stilled? We take refuge with God, from that which His creatures have fancied about Him! Exalted is He above their comprehension!
Bahá'í Reference Library - The Kitáb-i-Íqán, Pages 81-93
Then we have this statement about great mistakes in understanding the texts that have affected translation.
Abdu'l-Baha:
As to thy question concerning the additions to the Old and New Testament: Know thou, verily, as people could not understand the words, nor could they apprehend the realities therein, therefore they have translated them according to their own understanding and interpreted the verses after their own ideas and thus the text fell into confusion. This is undoubtedly true. As to an intentional addition: This is something uncertain. But they have made great mistakes as to the understanding of the texts and the comprehending of the references and have therefore fallen into doubts, especially in regard to the symbolical verses.
Bahá'í Reference Library - Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas, Pages 609-610
The designation of 'Son of God' from a Baha'i POV does in part allude to Jesus's special and unique status that would be applicable to all the Manifestations of God. However there have been many great spiritual teachers, male and female, and the Baha'i Faith does not deny that.
In regards to other religions:
And just as the rays of the natural sun have an influence which penetrates into the darkest and shadiest corners of the world, giving warmth and life even to creatures that have never seen the sun itself, so also, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit through the Manifestation of God influences the lives of all, and inspires receptive minds even in places and among peoples where the name of the Prophet is quite unknown.
(Dr. J.E. Esslemont, Baha'u'llah and the New Era, p. 4)
Because the Baha'i faith is not a black and white religion, nor are the issues you mention here.
Jesus provided an example of sacrifice and selflessness that can inspire anyone on the right path, not just Christians. All the great religious teachers and Manifestation have exemplified sacrifice and selflessness too.
That's correct that we don't see it literally. We can all be spiritually alive or dead. We can all walk in the light or darkness. Most of us here are children of the half light to some degree.