CG Didymus
Veteran Member
But supposedly God told us exactly what to expect... such and such will happen and then this and then that. But, if Baha'u'llah, and Muhammad and The Bab, are returns of Christ, then it didn't go down like that. Sinners were going to keep on sinning and suffer judgement. Satan was going to be cast into the lake of fire. All things were going to be restored. The New Jerusalem was going to come on down and bad stuff would be gone. The return of Jesus was to be obvious for Christians. Some even thought that there would be a trumpet sound and they would be taken up while the evil world goes through the tribulations.What God knows or knew about what we'd do is irrelevant, because WE didn't know. And because WE didn't know, we still had a choice. We still could have responded differently, but chose not to. It may have been a pointless exercise from God's perspective to send us a 'redeemer', but it certainly wasn't a pointless exercise from ours. We still have that option of redemption open to us every day of our lives.
But Baha'u'llah has already come. Jesus isn't the one coming? What happened? And then what? We've already gone through the tribulations? It don't seem like it. It seems like we might very well be in or heading for the tribulations.