John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus and he wasn't a manifestation of God. What do you think the day of God is?
I see the Day of God is the dispensation of a Messenger from God.
Regards Tony
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John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus and he wasn't a manifestation of God. What do you think the day of God is?
Yes, but Jesus said, Elijah comes again in the End Time.Jesus was referring to John the Baptist.
The Bab prepared the way for Baha'u'llah to enter.Why would the Messiah need the Bab to enter?
Yes, but Jesus said, Elijah comes again in the End Time.
The first time, Malachi said, Elijah comes, it was fulfilled by John, and when Jesus said Elijah comes in the End Time, it was fulfilled by the Bab.
"Jesus replied, "To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things." Matthew 17:11
The verse doesn't say the glory of God and Jesus. The verse mentions seeing the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. There's a difference between the nuances of both expressions.
Matthew 17:11 is a prophecy, but matthew 17:12 is history. You would know this from Grammer of the verse: the tense of the verse.Do you think Jesus was talking about futurism or historicism in the verse about Elijah coming again? The Bab fulfilling that prophecy doesn't sound like either but it sounds closer to historicism.
" Glory of God" is a separate individual from Jesus:
Ezekiel 43 :: NIV. and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east.
If it was a part of Jesus, Ezekiel would have also said, glory of God and Messiah.
Jesus appeared in the Old Testament as a pillar of cloud and fire. That's similar to the verse about the glory of God. That verse doesn't mention the Messiah because it's talking about God in his fullness, it's not a messianic prophecy.
John 16
25“Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 26In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
29Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. 30
"...Lo! The Father is come, and that which ye were promised in the Kingdom is fulfilled! This is the Word which the Son concealed..."
- Bahaullah
Bahá'í Reference Library - Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Pages 9-17
contradicts my opinion.
Who determined that to be the Messiah, the Messiah must be what you have listed here?To be the Messiah, the Messiah must be:
Who determined that to be the Messiah, the Messiah must be what you have listed here?
Who determined that to be the Messiah, the Messiah must be what you have listed here?
God gave humans free will, so everyone is free to believe whatever they want to about what will happen in the future.There is only one who will bring judgment, and that is Jesus Christ.
So we have mythical/fictional stories in the Bible, and you and I have to make sense of them. Which ones are not literally true? The Bible has the Sun stopping in the sky, Jesus walking on water, etc. all fictional? All absurd? But not a virgin birth? I find it hard to believe that unless it was a belief of the Baha'i Faith that you wouldn't find it also absurd.Maybe 2000 years ago it would have been easier to believe, so what happened is that the belief was passed down through the generations so now in the age of science most, but not all, Christians believe it...
No, the virgin birth is not absurd, for reasons in the quotes I cited. Miracles are possible, but not all miracles are the same.
And also to people who have made Jesus in their own image.Most likely people that want God to be made in their image.
Most likely people that want God to be made in their image.
Regards Tony
The Quran teaches that Jesus didn't die on the cross. The Quran says that Jesus is the servant of God, not God the Son.
I believe that verse means that Jesus could not die because the soul of Jesus could not be killed.
And who's soul does die?
So what is the great miracle if Muhammad and Baha'u'llah teach that Jesus' soul didn't die? When nobody's soul dies? The great miracle of the NT is that Jesus conquered death and rose again. I'm absolutely okay if you believe it was a hoax, a lie and a fabrication. But Baha'is can't go that far and say that. They have to say how full of Truth the Bible is and how great and wonderful Jesus was. Yet, deny major things taught in the Bible and NT. in order to get him physically dead and gone and not physically able to come back to make way for Muhammad, The Bab and Baha'u'llah.The soul never dies, it is immortal. That means nobody's soul ever dies.
Since Jesus was the only begotten Son of God, we know that Jesus was not the Messiah who would be the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, in human form, as per Isaiah 9:6. That Messiah was Baha'ullah.The Old Testament said that the Messiah would be the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, in human form, in Isaiah 9:6. Psalm 2:7 mentions Jesus being the only begotten Son of God.