Well, seeing as I am a 'Provision Baha'i', please consider some inside information on the matter instead of making dogmatic assertions of who does and does not represent a "true Baha'i". For one, I would never claim you are not a true or real Baha'i due to your allegiance with the UHJ in Haifa. Dialogue should be invoked so that misunderstanding does not persist between our communities.
What the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant teach is really nothing contrary to anything 'mainstream' Baha'is believe in and that's the truth. Our difference is merely in interpretation of Successorship, being the authentic Universal House of Justice of Baha'u'llah. If you read the
Kitab-i-Aqdas paragraph 32, Abdu'l-Baha's Last Will and Testament pgs. 13-15, and Shoghi Effendi's, The World Order of Baha'u'llah pgs. 147-148... you will find that no current authority in Haifa can account for the lack of an active executive branch within our administration.
On the issue of the historicity of the Manifestations of God, after becoming active within the Baha'i community here locally, I am shocked to find the lack of scriptural comprehension amongst fellow Baha'is--not to speak negatively or demean their character. Haifa and NSA's have become suspicious of any Baha'is inclined towards esoterism or fully exercising the 2nd Baha'i Principle of Independent Investigation of the Truth which leads to valid questions concerning our Administrative Order. If we
read page 7 of the Kitab-i-Iqan (Book of Certitude) we find Baha'u'llah affirming the age of the Prophet Noah.
The Bible alludes to Pyramid Prophecy continuously, which the prophecies of Moses, Isiah, Daniel, and even the Prophet Muhammad's Revelation (i.e. The Qur'an) allude when we read about a day being as a thousand years and a thousand years being as a day to the Lord God. So much study has been done in so many fields of research concerning the Great Pyramids of Giza that a marvelous discovery has been made when we mathematically and geometrically measure the inside markers of these monoliths in relation to the stars over a course of time and interpret these prophetically. In this way we can discern or measure the advents of the Divine Manifestations of God throughout history to capture an understanding of our evolutive purpose with the "eye of God". We have discovered that the lineal progression is: Adam, Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad, the Bab, Baha'u'llah (please investigate
"Entry By Troops" written by J.T. Lamb and research the "Giza Pyramid" content).
So, according to the pyramid prophecy, which accords directly with the prophecies from the Prophets of God, the Advent of Adam was in 4000 BC. We also have approximate dates for the advents of every other revealed divine Messenger of God. This is not a mere interpretation but exhaustive research from many Egyptologists and scholars on the Giza Pyramids themselves that have been explained in a wholly unique light from any other scholarly interpretation. Please do not shy from the material before at least reading everything in its context. And no we are not 'Six Day Creationists' nor do we share this ideology in any way.
ADAM is related to the Sumerian ADAMU which is a tradition of the manifestation of God's will for the human race, as the etymologies of MANU and BRAHMA suggest, as well. For example, and I just learned this, in the first verse of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis where we read, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth", the more accurate Hebrew equivalence would be "In 'A' beginning"... implying more than one age of creation. Also, as I am familiar with, we can readily read in Genesis 1:28 and 9:1 (KJV) that it is said to Adam and Eve are to "replenish" the Earth from the Hebrew "male'" to mean "to be full". Therefore we can affirm just as the ancient cosmologies (or mythologies) did that the universe of creation is eternal and ever-evolving, and so is Consciousness or "Intelligence-rising" (i.e. sentience).
The genealogy chart YmirGF read indeed was from the BUPC website containing the "Divine Standard" or "Banner" prophecised by Baha'u'llah to be fulfilled upon a date He Himself alluded (in the year 2001) and is also the ending timeline for Biblical prophecy. It proves that His Holiness Baha'u'llah was a living descendant of King David, therefore fulfilling specific prophecies to be the Promised One of all ages and religions, because only a Davidic King can possibly be the Redeemer of the world (please read
PSALM 89)! Consider what Baha'u'llah proclaims of Himself:
"THE Most Great Law is come, and the Ancient Beauty ruleth upon the throne of David" (PROCLAMATION OF BAHA'U'LLAH, PGS. 89-90)!