Trailblazer
Veteran Member
Of course, this is not about wine, the wine and the bottles are simply metaphors.You need to explain to me as to WHY 12 oz of OLD wine will fit into a 12 oz winebottle, but 12 oz of NEW wine, will NOT fit in a 12 oz winebottle?
I realize your example is supposed to represent something relevant to your beliefs, but it ends up not making any more sense that your beliefs do.
Luke 5:37-38 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Matthew 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
One cannot fit a newer religion (Baha’i) into an older religion such as Judaism or Christianity because it is too big and has many new ingredients the older religions did not have; so Baha’i would burst the bottles. However, if we put the Baha’i Faith in new bottles, we can still keep the older bottles of wine and both are thereby preserved. In other words, there is no reason the older bottles have to be thrown out, because the wine in all the bottles is the Word of God; the Baha’i wine is just newer and of a different flavor.
I also find this verse very significant:
Luke 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Jesus was right, as that is what actually happens... Christians or Jews or any older religious believers who have drunk the old wine do not desire the new Baha’i wine; they say the old is better.
I understand... I bought a brand new bike over a year ago and I am still riding to work on an old bike whose gears and brakes do not work very well, because I am so used to the old bike and I am not sure how the new bike will work... Of course, there is more to it when it comes to comparing religions, but we normally feel more comfortable with the known rather than the unknown and we become attached to it.
We also tend to be suspicious of that which is new. You know what they say about “the new guy on the block.” Baha’u’llah is the New Guy and His religion is kind of different.