Unveiled Artist
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The thing we do know is that all the major religions speak of both a golden age and a Promised One to appear at a latter age. That is part of their expectations.
We are only saying that He has appeared. That the promises in their Holy Books are fulfilled. The Jews wait for the Messiah, the Christians the return of Christ, the Buddhists Maitreya and so on.
One day these things will happen. One day Christ is supposed to return and the Buddha and Krishna also. So it is written and recorded.
So what happens then? The Christians aren’t supposed to accept Christ when He returns or the Buddhist a new Buddha?
So theoretically tell me when these Teachers do return do you honestly think their followers are going to welcome Them with open arms? Just look at what the Jews did to Christ Whom they claimed to be waiting for.
Whenever a Teacher apoears, history shows that the former religion which expected His coming either tortured, killed or crucified Him or did worse things.
So why would current religionists be any different. Of course they denounce Baha’u’llah as a false Messiah but so too was Christ accused.
Going by history, humanity has never once welcomed the Manifestation. So of course people are going to resist but that is nothing new.
It’s still a fact that as a Christian or Jew or Buddhist or other religion they still await the One foretold in their scriptures and so what if He appears?
Are they supposed to turn to Him or just join in with the popular sentiment and denounce Him as false, culturally appropriating their religion and twisting the meanings they have clung to for centuries? It is nothing new for former religions to denounce their new Manifestation. It happens all the time.
I took refuge in the lineage that "waits" for maitreya. No. Maitreya coming does nothing. Many Buddhas came in between Sakyamuni. They all taught the same Dhamma.
The glories kings and chariots wear out
The body too undergoes decay
the Dhamma of the good does not decay
So the good proclaim with the good
Maitrya and all buddhas and bodhisattvas have the same message and same dhamma. You can call him the promised one and relate him to christ. He is not the promised One. Many buddhist sects dont even believe in Meitreya coming back.
This is again bahai assuming they know the suttas better than buddhists (all buddhists) themselves. Also, its saying the suttas are false because it says the message stays the same just many buddhas came thought eons of time periods to expound it.
What do you think Maiteya will change in the Dhamma?
Hinduism is another one. How can Krishna come when he is already here?
Oooh. With Buddhism its The Buddha, The Dhamma, The Sangha. Meitreya is not part of the three jewels.