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Where are Baha'u'llah's Parables?

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
If David spoke in parables, Yeshua spoke in parables, the prophets spoke in parables, and thus the Lord is a Speaker of Parables (Ezekiel 20:49)...

Where are Baha'u'llah's parables, and in alignment with some of the ongoing prophetic ones please?

In my opinion. :innocent:
 

Desert Snake

Veteran Member
Yeshuah probably didn't speak in parables, or, the real Jesus, didn't. The parables are a problem in the gospels, some are meaningless, etc.
 

Dawnofhope

Non-Proselytizing Baha'i
Staff member
Premium Member
If David spoke in parables, Yeshua spoke in parables, the prophets spoke in parables, and thus the Lord is a Speaker of Parables (Ezekiel 20:49)...

Where are Baha'u'llah's parables, and in alignment with some of the ongoing prophetic ones please?

In my opinion. :innocent:

In the mystical the seven valleys, Bahá’u’lláh describes the stages of the soul’s journey to union with its Creator in terms of seven valleys—of search, love, knowledge, unity, contentment, wonderment, and ‘true poverty and absolute nothingness’.

Bahá'í Reference Library - The Seven Valleys And the Four Valleys

The Seven Valleys - Wikipedia
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
Bahá'í Reference Library - The Seven Valleys And the Four Valleys
This isn't really a parable, having 7 valleys of understanding doesn't reveal hidden meaning by its utterances.

Like a valley has many metaphors that apply to life, like the idea that water always takes the lowest path, and thus will run along the valley, creating many additional understandings as metaphors along the way.

In my opinion. :innocent:
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
The parables are a problem in the gospels, some are meaningless, etc.
Nothing in the Bible is pointless, everything has additional meanings; so each parable interlinks with ideas in the Tanakh...

If you find a parable you feel is meaningless, bring it up, and we can show where many of the additional factors are.

In my opinion. :innocent:
 

Dawnofhope

Non-Proselytizing Baha'i
Staff member
Premium Member
This isn't really a parable, having 7 valleys of understanding doesn't reveal hidden meaning by its utterances.

Like a valley has many metaphors that apply to life, like the idea that water always takes the lowest path, and thus will run along the valley, creating many additional understandings as metaphors along the way.

In my opinion. :innocent:

A parable is simply a story with a moral or spiritual meaning.

Definition of PARABLE

The work was revealed in response to Sufi mystics when Bahá’u’lláh lived in relative seclusion round the mountains of Kurdistan.
 

Windwalker

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Yeshuah probably didn't speak in parables, or, the real Jesus, didn't. The parables are a problem in the gospels, some are meaningless, etc.
What? Who are you drawing from in this bold claim? What sort of "problem" do you see them to be in the gospels? I am of the view that the entire gospels themselves, are parables about Jesus, taking what he started in his teachings by parables, and creating historical parables about him in that same parabolic vein: Link
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
If David spoke in parables, Yeshua spoke in parables, the prophets spoke in parables, and thus the Lord is a Speaker of Parables (Ezekiel 20:49)...

Where are Baha'u'llah's parables, and in alignment with some of the ongoing prophetic ones please?

In my opinion. :innocent:
Baha'u'llah did not speak in parables. As Jesus said, when He returns He will no longer speak in parables:

John 16:25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
 
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