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Yes thanks Ignatius for your question! There is a process we Baha'is call "Progress Revelation" and I'll provide a quote here: "Throughout the ages, God has sent Divine Messengers known as Manifestations of God—among them Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Muhammad...

Thamks for your post Ignatius! Yes....I suppose you could call me personally an "apostate" from Christianity as I was formally a Christian until in my twenties. The Baha'i Faith though itself is not an apostacy from Christianity. Some Muslims believe Baha'is are apostates from Islam as...

Hey "public hermit" thanks for you question and I apologize for my absence the past four days or so! I've not heard of the book "Thy Book of Splendors". You can check out the Bahá’í Reference Library | The Bahá’í Faith and search for it as I did but couldn't find it. The name of...

Tomorrow is a Baha'i Holy Day and usually Baha'is meet on this day to recall the meaning and significance of this day. I will post a prayer here: O my Lord and my Hope! Help Thou Thy loved ones to be steadfast in Thy mighty Covenant, to remain faithful to Thy manifest Cause, and to carry out...

Hello Cloudy Day! Baha'is offer prayers daily but among them we have obligatory prayers: "Obligatory prayer is the very foundation of the Cause of God. Through it joy and vitality infuse the heart. Even if every grief should surround Me, as soon as I engage in conversing with God in obligatory...

From October 18th until sunset today on October 19th Baha'is are observing "Twin Holy Days" which commemorate the Birth of the Bab (1819) and the Birth of Baha'u'llah (1817). "The notion of "twin Manifestations of God" is a concept fundamental to Baháʼí belief, describing the relationship...

In my belief there is statement that in the future humans will be more vegetarian... and part of the reason for this is that our human population will like be better able to survive on a vegetarian diet than a neat eating diet. According to the Worldwatch Institute, “One ton of methane, the...

In the Baha'i Faith there is no "devil" or "Satan": "The Bahá'í Faith denies the existence of Satan, a devil, or an "evil force." Evil does not have independent existence, but is rather the absence of good, just as darkness is the absence of light and cold is the absence of heat."...

Baha'is are more accepting I think of the evolution: In the Tablet of Wisdom ("Lawh-i-Hikmat", written 1873-1874). Baháʼu'lláh states: "That which hath been in existence had existed before, but not in the form thou seest today. The world of existence came into being through the heat generated...

I've been active in an Inter-faith Council in my community and generally have few problems. Christians differ of course as their churches will have different approaches to issues in the community.

Historically the expectation of the "Second Coming" was a fairly strong in the early nineteenth century in the U.S. known as the Millerite movement... The Millerites were the followers of the teachings of William Miller, who in 1831 first shared publicly his belief that the Second Advent of...

I'm a bibliophile myself and on occasion contribute books to a nearby university where students can ponder their meanings. Also there is a rule in the Baha'i Faith in which book burning is forbidden: "As a token of grace from God, the Revealer of this Most Great Announcement, We have removed...

The infant is not a vacuum... but also represents a human being in dire circumstances... (1) His mother for one who carried him for nine months.. Her love and care for the infant is a reality. (2) Any medical staff are part of an opportunity to hone their skills. (3) The soul of the infant is...

From the Baha'i Writings: The true follower is led “to sincerity of intent, to high purpose, to purity and spotless honor, to surpassing kindness and compassion, to the keeping of their covenants when they have covenanted, to concern for the rights of others, to liberality, to justice in every...

Later this week Baha'is will be observing a Holy Day ... The Declaration of the Bab ("the Gate") on May 22nd-23rd. Work and School are suspended. The Holy Day commemorates the declaration of Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi on May 22, 1844 C.E.... the Muslim year was 1260 AH, that He was the...