Popeyesays
Well-Known Member
The problem with the Baha'i view is that it waters the event of Christ's resurrection down to the point where it has little to no meaning, while the evidence is that this event was the crowning point of the early Christian faith. To say, well, it was a spiritual resurrection, and after three days the disciples (perhaps after a vision of Jesus) had some kind of experience that motivated them to go on and continue in their mission to spread the news of Christ. Well, what exactly was the news that they would be spreading? That there was a rabbi who taught to keep the commandments, to love God and love each other, and he was killed for claiming to speak with the authority of God. Why then did Paul "preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles," and "3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance [a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, [b] and then to the Twelve."?
The Baha'i view is easy to swallow, it makes no demands upon us. The twelve were inspired to preach Christ's Gospel, there was no 'real' resurrection of Christ.
Compare that to a Love so powerful it conquers death.
It depends upon how you define "Real". There is no doubt that the "experience" of the Twelve, plus the Magdalene, was real. The only sticking point appears to be the corpse from the cross. To Baha`i's that dead body is immaterial, it's fate is known. Jesus Himself maintained that the earthly vessel was of no importance.
The idea that the earthly vessel has spiritual significance after death is foreign to how Baha`i's understand the earthly physical life and the spiritual life after the death of the body.
God's love has always conquered death. God's law that we love one another has always conquered death. Death has no spiritual meaning at all. It never has.
Death is an experience for those who survive the deceased, it's we who mourn the passing, not he/she who has passed.
Regards,
Scott