Like jesus in the trinity?
The Bible talks about, Jesus being the Son, Holy Spirit, and the Father.
Bahais also believe in these Three.
Jesus said, He and the Father are One. The Father is in the Son. In Bahai view, it means God, manifested Himself in Jesus.
In the Time of Manifestations before or after Jesus, the same God, Manifested Himself again and again. This is why Jesus said, before Abraham I am. It was God who was saying this.
Buddha said before and after Him, there were Buddhas. This is because the same Reality and Image Manifests in All of them. Thus they are the same Buddha.
That sounds, honestly, creepy. God is god and doesn't need to be a manif or human for us to learn about god. Hinduism, I get because Krishna is god and so is Vishnu. So, understanding Brahma through his incarnations is the same as understanding Brahma directly.
Once you make god of abraham (who is not Brahma therefore not Vishnu and therefore not Krishna) a human, he is no longer god by definition.
That is why it makes more sense when
@loverofhumanity said the manif
point to god. Though, I disagree that Krishna, The Buddha, and Zoroaster, and Maitreya pointed to the GOA. This is not only based on what I practiced but what they teach.
If we are bringing unity, it is not about you. It's not "we Bahai" It's we, as a humanity, believe...
If you can't complete that sentence without conflict of beliefs, then it is a Bahai belief. Nothing wrong with that.
In Bahai View, God is invisible, and unknowable directly, thus, we cannot see Him, or hear His Words. Therefore He chooses to Manifests Himself in form of human, so, He can talk with us in our own languages, sit with us, eat with us, socialize with us, so, we can get to know Him.
@loverofhumanity, is correct saying that the Manifestations point to God. But that God They pointed to, was within Themselves. There was no other God. God does not have a physical location. It is not like He is somewhere. But the Manifestations have an individuality and a Holy Reality. Their Holy Reality is Manifestation of God. Their individuality, as a human, points to the Holy Reality of God, who Manifested Himself within Them. When Bahaullah was in Prison, He said, there is no God except Me, the Prisoner, the One.
Some people said Bahaullah claimed to be God. Bahaullah wrote that is a false accusation. Because the individuality of Bahaullah is not God. It is false to say, Bahaullah is the incarnation of God. God does not change, He does not change Himself to a visible, physical body of Human. But without a change, He manifested Himself in Bahaullah.