Trailblazer
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I am okay with those interpretations, I just do not believe that ONLY Jesus was Lord.Jesus' name is above every name, and that name to me is the name of God, that is, all of the attributes of God. That's my metaphorical interpretation, which is only my own. The same is true of every Prophet of God.
Jesus is Lord, and every Prophet is Lord, they are all the same reflection of God.
Jesus' name was above every other name during His Dispensation, but not forever.
Yes, I know that, and that is in Gleanings as well.What you say about Jesus being a humble servant of God is also true, He is so humble and self-effacing that God revealed Himself through Him. We learn from the Book of Certitude that we can say Jesus is God as He is a representation of God on earth and Jesus is a servant of God.
“Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: “I am God,” He, verily, speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His names and His attributes, are made manifest in the world....... And were any of them to voice the utterance, “I am the Messenger of God,” He, also, speaketh the truth, the indubitable truth ..........For they are all but one person, one soul, one spirit, one being, one revelation. They are all the manifestation of the “Beginning” and the “End,” the “First” and the “Last,” the “Seen” and the “Hidden”—all of which pertain to Him Who is the Innermost Spirit of Spirits and Eternal Essence of Essences. And were they to say, “We are the Servants of God,” this also is a manifest and indisputable fact. For they have been made manifest in the uttermost state of servitude, a servitude the like of which no man can possibly attain. Thus in moments in which these Essences of Being were deep immersed beneath the oceans of ancient and everlasting holiness, or when they soared to the loftiest summits of Divine mysteries, they claimed their utterances to be the Voice of Divinity, the Call of God Himself.” Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 54-55
They do have great power, but I do not think that Manifestations of God are omnipotent; only God is omnipotent.I'm not sure about the part about Jesus given authority to rule over heaven and earth. The Manifestations of God seem to have a kind of omnipotence to do what they want.