Trailblazer
Veteran Member
The spiritual truths do not contradict each other.
Religions are different for the logical reasons I have formerly explained in those two passages I posted. Below is another passage that explains why they are different.
“The Purpose of the one true God, exalted be His glory, in revealing Himself unto men is to lay bare those gems that lie hidden within the mine of their true and inmost selves. That the divers communions of the earth, and the manifold systems of religious belief, should never be allowed to foster the feelings of animosity among men, is, in this Day, of the essence of the Faith of God and His Religion. These principles and laws, these firmly-established and mighty systems, have proceeded from one Source, and are the rays of one Light. That they differ one from another is to be attributed to the varying requirements of the ages in which they were promulgated.” Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 287-288
You can't use science to find out the truth about religion since science fall under a completely different purview.
I just gave my reason: You can't use science analogies and try to apply them to religion because religion and science falls under a completely different purviews.
Perhaps you are calling me biased simply because I do not share your biases.
I know what peer review is and I already explained why it is not useful for deciding whether a religion is the truth.
Peer review of a religious belief and accepting something as more likely to be accurate because other people have examined your review of that religion is the fallacy of ad populum -- if many other people believe it it must be true. A personal opinion is what we want. We never want to believe based upon someone else's opinion because we are all accountable to God for what we believed at the end of this life, so if we say I did not believe in Baha'u'llah because not very many people believed in Him, that won't fly with God.
“Suffer not yourselves to be wrapt in the dense veils of your selfish desires, inasmuch as I have perfected in every one of you My creation, so that the excellence of My handiwork may be fully revealed unto men. It follows, therefore, that every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God, the Glorified. Had he not been endowed with such a capacity, how could he be called to account for his failure? If, in the Day when all the peoples of the earth will be gathered together, any man should, whilst standing in the presence of God, be asked: “Wherefore hast thou disbelieved in My Beauty and turned away from My Self,” and if such a man should reply and say: “Inasmuch as all men have erred, and none hath been found willing to turn his face to the Truth, I, too, following their example, have grievously failed to recognize the Beauty of the Eternal,” such a plea will, assuredly, be rejected. For the faith of no man can be conditioned by any one except himself.” Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 143
So now you are shifting gears? No, religion is not an accurate representation of material reality but it is an accurate representation of spiritual reality, just as science is an accurate representation of material reality but it is not an accurate representation of spiritual reality..
but it you care to post the name of the fallacy you think I committed I will tell you why I did not commit it.
