WITHOUT GOD THERE CAN BE NO LASTING PEACE:
That is what I believe.
But is it more than a just a belief, is it the chance of fulfillment that all Faiths have been waiting for?
Is that not the quandary faced in every age, is that not a lesson that history has taught us, that God has been found in many Names and in many ways?
For me to be true to that belief, that there is no Peace without God, my role first and foremost, in my daily life, is to be an example of what that lasting peace entails.
Another major part of that example is to make mention of that possibility, only to those that desire to talk upon that subject. That is where an individual's responsibly with God ceases.
So this OP is focused on this passage, that I see has come from God, it was given to us in the mid to late 1800's.
"....The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established. This unity can never be achieved so long as the counsels which the Pen of the Most High hath revealed are suffered to pass unheeded...."
It is offered in that same Tablet, that God has never left us to ourselves, that we have always had the chance to find that peace and security in the wisdom given by God.
It has also been offered that in previous ages, persons known as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad (to name but a few) have all given us that chance at peace, given from God. They have all offered, each in turn, that it would be in the future when all humanity would be given the chance once again. Then the Bab came and offered that that day had come, that He was the Gate to that Day of God. Then Baha'u'llah offered that the Message He had, was that promised 'Day of God'.
"...The Pen of the Ancient King hath never ceased to remember the loved ones of God. At one time, rivers of mercy have streamed from His Pen, at another, through its movement, God’s perspicuous Book hath been revealed. He is the One to Whom none can compare, Whose utterance mortal man can never rival. He it is Who from everlasting hath been established upon the seat of ascendancy and might, He from Whose lips have gone out counsels that can satisfy the needs of the whole of mankind, and admonitions that can profit them...."
I see that is the Truth, that we cannot and will not find peace without embracing what God has said we need to do in this age.
What a quandary life offers.
Regards Tony
Equating God with peace sounds good on paper, but the opposite is true.
Religion creates war.
Mixing politics and religion is bad because charletans take power. They
tout religion, but make wars....."thou shalt not kill" "turn the other cheek" and Revelation specifically told us not to attack Iraq or face God's wrath (such as Revelation 15....seven mutations of the pandemic).
W. Bush "fought evil" and made a
never-ending-war-for-peace is not peace (it's war). He was
elected by the Religious Right, as his father was, and
his father started the war in Iraq in the first place (trying to protect Kuwait, which used to be part of Iraq).
W. Bush also had
torture camps around the world (Camp X-ray and Delta in Guantanamo, where the sign in front said that they were fighting for freedom, and a torture camp in Iraq which had been reported by the International Red Cross, but their complaints ended when friendly fire (from the US) ended the lives of the International Red Cross members who were complaining about the torture, and a torture camp on a US Navy vessel on the Indian Ocean, and other torture camps around the world.
W. Bush had attacked his Taliban allies, who were the religious leaders of Afghanistan, and who had captured Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda top aides merely 9 days after the 911 attack. With so much in the news about the 911 attack, and warped intel coming from the W. Bush administration, it was difficult for the public to know what was going on, and therefore possible to conflate Afghanistan with terrorism (though there was no connection). Bin Laden, at the time, had been a US ally, who had been sent to Afghanistan to repel Soviet invasion.
Reagan and Vice President Bush were also elected by the Religious Right, and they had the
Iran Contra scandal, which,
behind the back of Congress, supported the
Contra dictator in his war against the Sandinistas who wanted educations for their kids and enough food to eat (the Contra dictator restricted their food and made sure that they voted for them or they would be blackballed in Nicaragua (no jobs), as he owned 85 percent of the businesses, and controlled the other 15%. Another part of the Iran Contra scandal was counterfeiting US currency to buy arms (made to look Russian to blame Russia) for
Iran's dictatorship. When caught, the Reagan/Bush adminstration lied.
Putin is Christian...he's murdering innocent Ukrainians to reunite the Soviet Union dictatorship and because he's frustrated by being surrounded by NATO nations (they had promised Putin that they wouldn't join).
Iranian's had been excited that the
Ayatollah Khomeni had been elected (finally morality will rule Iran, the Iranian students studying in America told me). Khomeni issued a Fatwa condemning them to death if they returned to Iran because they had been Americanized and were now impure.
Anywhere you look, Christians made war. They spread Christianity to native Americans, and Father
Junipero Serra (recently sainted by the Vatican for making
California's missions), tortured and murdered Native Americans in order to scare them into building those missions.
Modern
Mayans are finally learning their history because of the recent translation of their ancient glyphs (Christian Spanish soldiers had forced them not to pass their knowledge to their kids, and forced them to learn Spanish and abandon their native language).
Haiwaiians had been living in paradise prior to Catholic missionaries civilizing them (made them poor, diseased, and miserable on their island paradise).
I hate to refute good Christians who feel peace in their hearts and want to spread that peace throughout the world. But their vision of Christian peace is obviously the opposite of reality.