Nope. Our responsibility is to deny false prophets as defined by
Deuteronomy 13. But you'll need to read it from a Jewish source. The Christian bible obscures the prohibition from adding or removing from the commandments.
Deuteronomy 13
1 Everything I command you that you shall be careful to do it.
2 You shall neither add to it, nor subtract from it.
3 and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you happens, [and he] says, "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them,"
4 you shall not heed the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream; for the Lord, your God, is testing you, to know whether you really love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.
5 You shall follow the Lord, your God, fear Him, keep His commandments, heed His voice, worship Him, and cleave to Him.
6 And that prophet, or that dreamer of a dream shall be put to death; because he spoke falsehood about the Lord, your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and Who redeemed you from the house of bondage, to lead you astray from the way in which the Lord, your God, commanded you to go; so shall you clear away the evil from your midst.
It says that you should not add to the Torah or subtract from it, but how could you do that? It has been canonized.
It does not say you should never follow any Prophet. It says you should not follow a prophet who said "Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us worship them," or a prophet who “spoke falsehood about the Lord, your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”
All scriptures say that because it is a warning not to be fooled. The New Testament says the same thing about false prophets in Matthew 7 and Baha’u’llah told us not to believe in any prophet that comes in less than 1000 years, but logically speaking to warn us of a possible false prophet is not to say there can be no true prophet.
It is prohibited to deify people in Judaism. That is idolatry.
Sorry, I thought you said
defiled, not deified. It is also prohibited in the Baha’i Faith to deify anyone, even a Messenger of God.
Your beliefs are irrelevent in a debate. It's just more preaching.
A debate has two sides. How can there be a debate with only one side presented? That is a double standard, because if my beliefs are not relevant to a debate neither are your beliefs.
Whenever you do not like something I say you call it preaching. You also did that to Skywalker.
Your opinion about Jews and Christians and Muslims is bigoted. We don't need your religion. It's that simple. You are imagining flaws and assigning them to the entire group unjustly, demonizing those who don't agree with you. That's bigoted.
I can’t even have an opinion without being called names. A bigot is a person who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group. That does not apply to me just because I stated why I think those of older religions reject a new religion.
There is nothing bigoted about my opinion; it is just a word you use to beat me down. I don’t care if you think the world needed another religion, it is not your choice to make that decision, it is God’s choice, and if God made that choice there is nothing you can do about it.
Nah. I don't think you can make a logical argument showing the need for a new messenger. So far it sounds completely irrational. It's faith based, not evidence based.
Don’t worry, I won’t tell you. And I don't think you can make a logical argument showing that there is
no need for a new messenger. That we do not need a new Messenger is faith based, not evidence based. Just turn on your TV if you do not think we needed a new Messenger. There is your evidence.
If we don’t need a new Messenger why would we need a Messiah?
Wrong. It's not a binary choice. You can have your religion with your God. I can have my religion with my God. The Torah clearly says that there are "other Gods". Jewish people are simply prohibited from worshipping or serving those other Gods.
I do not have a separate God, as there is only one God. "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me" means you should not worship false gods, you should only worship the one true God.
Deut 13:5 You shall follow the Lord, your God, fear Him, keep His commandments, heed His voice, worship Him, and cleave to Him.
All the scriptures enjoin the believers to follow their God but that does not mean that the God that the Christians and Muslims and Baha’is follow is not the one true God. That is completely illogical.
"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me" is one of the Ten Commandments found in the Hebrew Bible at Exodus 20:2 and Deuteronomy 5:6. It is the central tenet of the Abrahamic religions and prohibits the religion's followers from worshipping gods other than the Lord.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me - Wikipedia
And that is a very good reason to reject him. Case closed. He sounds like a bigot. Not very enlightened.
Believe whatever you want to believe and do whatever you want to do, it’s your choice.
A bigot is a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group. That would not describe Baha’u’llah
at all since He taught that all the religions are one and they are all true. I am also not a bigot either since I believe all religions are true. If anyone is bigoted it is a believer who is unreasonably attached to a belief that states that only their religion is true.
That's a strawman. No one is asking you to accept Torah. You on the other hand are asking all religious believers to accept all religions.
I am not asking any religious believers to do that, I am simply stating what the Baha’i Faith teaches, that all religions are one and that they are all true. What people do with that information is entirely up to them.
According to your words above you think "all religious believers are obligated to accept all religions". That is elitest, judgemental, know-it-all, preachy garbage.
That does not come from me, it come from Baha’u’llah. I am just the ‘messenger’ for the Messenger. Maybe the word obligated is not the right word, enjoined would be a better word.
Baha’u’llah wrote:
“This is the Day when the loved ones of God should keep their eyes directed towards His Manifestation, and fasten them upon whatsoever that Manifestation may be pleased to reveal.” And then He explained why “Certain traditions of bygone ages rest on no foundations whatever, while the notions entertained by past generations, and which they have recorded in their books, have, for the most part, been influenced by the desires of a corrupt inclination.” Gleanings, p. 171
Why not just admit you do not like my beliefs instead of attacking me personally and calling me names? That does not project a very good image of Jewish believers. All the other Jews on this forum disagree with my beliefs but they never call me names. In fact, all the other Christians on this forum disagree with my beliefs but they never call me names. That says more about you than it says about me.