Maximilian
Energetic proclaimer of Jehovah God's Kingdom.
Or the ones that have a medical termination of pregnancy before the age of viability in case of a child with a disease such as anencephaly?
Before the age of viability?
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Or the ones that have a medical termination of pregnancy before the age of viability in case of a child with a disease such as anencephaly?
No one would. And God would not be Loving and Just unless someone choosing were fully aware of the consequences of their choice and of God's existence, true nature, and power. It's especially ludicrous that you should believe religious preachers telling you the info. The idea of choosing where you will end up, of eternal salvation; it's all a fictional story.who in their right mind would choose the latter?
I do not know what you mean by that. Can you give me an example or do you want me to just have a shot in dark?
It is a Baha'i belief that the human soul comes into being at the moment of conception, and that is when life begins. So abortion is taking a life. Even the morning after pill could be aborting a life, depending upon when conception took place:
Conception itself can occur anywhere between a few hours and 5 days after intercourse. This is because sperm can live inside your uterus and fallopian tubes for up to 5 days. If during that period you ovulate (release and egg from your ovary), then the sperm can come into contact with the ovum to make an embryo.
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Baha'u'llah wrote this and we know for certain because the original Tablets stamped with His seal are in a vault at the research center in Haifa, Israel.
The Tablet to Napoleon III was written in 1869.
that prevents what happened with the Bible from happening ever again.
nay....I don't believe in god because of scriptureThat is a leap of faith on your part - you are using circular reasoning - quoting from a text purported to be written / inspired by God - to justify the existence of God
...Where does it say they rejected God? The person who never heard the rule from God gets it wrong and thinks it looks delicious so she eats it. All the threats and boons promised meant nothing to her. It's like threatening a 1 year old with more complicated taxes when they don't even know what money is.
That's apparently what some believe. I don't.Some believe the god of the Bible made all beings predestined. So god didn’t make Satan knowing what the outcome would be?
Well I will give it my best shot! This life and this earth is a place of trial. Pilot said to Jesus; "Are you a king?" Jesus answered, "I am a king, but my kingdom is not of this world" on another occasion; " It is their hour". Note that God's sense of time is huge, and man's sense of time by comparison is small. Jesus said , "Soon you will see the Son of Man coming on a cloud". God is the source of all goodness ,and evil is his opposite. These two opposing forces must play out over a vast amount of time, like the stars in the heavens, until they achieve their final purpose, which is either heaven or hell. This is the greatest drama of all time, and you are a part of it. God wanted creatures who would love Him, and so He created angles and men, and he gave them the choice of good or evil, because He did not want puppets.Hello,
I have some questions, that I can't find the answers to. (I'm still learning.)
I've been studying and asking God to show me answers to these questions, and yet I'm still so lost.
Hoping someone can help me out a little.
If God is all-loving, why is there a hell, and why do people constantly die needlessly and innocently?
(E.G. People dying of horrific things like being merely beaten to death by someone they never even knew, or suddenly contracting illness? Or dying of starvation, because they're so poor and couldn't get help? There are worse innocent deaths that happen all the time, but I'd rather not make this too graphic. You get the picture.)
Also, why is there a hell? The punishment of hells pain, torture and eternal fire is so sickening to think of. And thinking of the people who will go there, simply because they never knew God, or just happened to get caught up in something wrong, for a time and died. Eternal pain is the worst thing to experience. How is this love?
The bible states that his love is unconditional, but this seems to be a very conditional situation, to me. I'm confused.
If God is perfect and omnipotent, why does this all even exist? Can't he just wipe it all out, and destroy satan?
He is perfect, yet a mistake was made when satan was allowed to come in and interfere in the garden of eden, was it not? Should he not have interfered, then?
Also, being all-knowing, should he not have seen this all coming and prevented it?
Why would he chose to let us live in a world like this?
Also, how is having a choice between God, a perfect heaven of fluffy clouds vs. Eternal suffering and burning free will? It seems like a very forced choice to me, because who in their right mind would choose the latter?
I know the bible says in the end times God will do his final justice once and for all and make things right. However, that will still involve a lot of people going to hell, and I don't understand why he must let us suffer this way, until then.
Not looking to argue or get into anything, as religious discussions tend to go... just really, honestly looking for answers.
Hoping someone can help me understand these things.
Thank you.
Again?An ancient book that never misses the target- 100% accurate.
How well do you think humans in biblical times did with showing dominion over hippos, bears & lions with only a spear or a club? Genesis 1:26
Worship the lord thy god and none will have sickness, miscarry or be barren. Exodus 23: 25-26.
You may be able to significantly advance our space program by correcting incorrect beliefs of NASA. The think the earth is rotating & orbiting, 1 chronicles 16:30 clearly disputes this. They also believe the earth is round, but the Bible says otherwise- Isaiah 11:12.
Whilst the unicorn be willing to serve thee- Job 39:9 Finally! Evidence of unicorns
I agree it comes from the primal light, the question is where the primal light comes from.And you know this how? There is a line that states that the true knowledge imparted comes from the primal light itself -
The Writings of Baha'u'llah are not superior to any other scriptures, they are just more current.Please, before you go touting the supremacy of the writings of Bahaism - take a moment to study the others around - I am done with this pointless debate!
I agree, you need more than that to believe a religion is true. I meant that at a minimum it should make logical sense to you.No, it doesn't, for all the reasons I've already given but, even if I did, making logical sense is the barest minimum necessity required to think something might be true - it is nowhere near sufficient reason to do so.
No, I am not confusing those. But FIRST you have to know these things about Baha’u’llah before you can determine for yourself if they are true. That is the logical progression."Fulfilled prophecies" are two a penny. In all the rest you seem to be confusing evidence that Baha’u’llah existed, wrote what he did, and passed it on, with evidence that it is actually true.
No, because there is a good reason why God does not deliver a clear and unambiguous message to everyone. Simply put, everyone does not deserve to get such a message and that is one reason God uses Messengers; it separates the wheat from the chaff. That might sound rather harsh, but that is the way God operates. God wants believers who are willing to tow the line. If everyone got the same message that would be unjust because then people who did nothing to earn it would also get it. Should everyone get an MD without even going to medical school? Why should belief in God be any different? Some effort is required.Okay - I should have made this clearer myself. If god has not delivered (to everybody) a clear and unambiguous message, then it is playing a silly and unnecessarily cruel game of hide-and-seek.
It is not hiding anywhere. It is out there for all to see in the Baha’i Reference Library online.No but it does mean that your god (if it exists) is hiding its message.
God did not design our characters. We form our characters by the choices we make in life. We all have two natures, a higher spiritual nature and a lower material nature, and we have free will to choose and act according to one of those natures, thereby becoming who we become, the person we are. THE TWO NATURES IN MANWithout getting into the general problems with "free will", an omnipotent and omniscient creator would have effectively designed all of our natures and all of our nurtures, that is all of our characters. Where then is there any free will?
Just because a God is capable of doing something does not mean that God is obligated to do it. An Omniscient God knows the best way to communicate to humanity; because God knows everything, God knows all the available options. If communication to everyone was the best way God would have employed it. This is what I mean by using logic.Yes, I can - or rather I could if I thought a god existed. An omnipotent and omniscient god must be perfectly capable of delivering a clear and unambiguous to every single human. If it's an important message, then it is being unjust and unfair in not doing so - and limiting our "free will" as well.
God is capable of thinking of anything, but that does not mean He is going to do what He is thinking of. God only does what God chooses to do, not what humans want Him to do. That is inherent in omnipotence, and that is what atheists totally miss. They say that God can do anything but they do not understand that the converse also applies; God only does what God chooses to do.So this omnipotent and omniscient god is in capable of thinking of anything in between?
Isaiah 35 King James Version (KJV)Do your best
It is common knowledge that Baha'u'llah existed and that He wrote the Tablets.What evidence shows he was their author?
I suppose Baha'u'llah dated the Tablet, before He stamped it with His official seal.What concrete evidence is this based on?
How many Bible translations are there in English?What happened with the Bible?
It is common knowledge that Baha'u'llah existed and that He wrote the Tablets.
This is not just a religious belief and no atheist even argues with it...
There were witnesses who witnessed the revelation streaming in as He wrote His Tablets.....
Some of His Tablets were dictated to His secretary because it was difficult for Him to write after He had been poisoned many times by His enemies, but those Tablets were were immediately reviewed by Him and stamped with His official seal.
All of His Tablets were stamped with His official seal....
This is explained in God Passes By and The Dawn-Breakers, where the history of the Baha'i Faith is chronicled.