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Why not? The doubt is well-founded. What is absurd is the faith that the new amalgamated religions put in their own revelations. Of course we are much more certain that the Baha'i religious texts contain the actual revelations of Baha'u'llah, so that is one advantage over the case with the gospels. ... BUT ... there is no reason to ASSUME that Baha'u'llah's revelations came from God and then to assume that the TRUE revelations of Jesus harmonize with Baha'u'llah's revelations. Baha'i needs a better argument than "Baha'u'llah said it therefore it is true". But at least we know fairly accurately what Baha'u'llah said. And we know some things about the biography of Baha'u'llah though not every detail. We don't need to doubt those things.Maybe He didn't claim this other thing, or that thing over there. That kind of doubt makes the entire religion useless for syncretism. You can't just doubt away every obstacle to syncretism until it syncs up.
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