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Non-Baha’is Are Not Humans or Lack the Traits of Being Considered as Humans
According to Bahā’u’llāh, non-Baha’is are not humans and the consequence of mentioning them as ‘human’ is exclusion from all of God’s Graces:
“From this day, any individual that mentions as human a single person from those who deny me—whether that [denier] has a high or low stature—they will be excluded from all of (God’s) Merciful Graces, let alone trying to prove [those deniers] have dignity or stature.”
CONTRADICTIONS - PART 2 RELIGION MUST BE IN CONFORMITY WITH SCIENCE AND REASON
Written by Super UserThe Criterion for Being Knowledgeable and Reasonable in the Baha’i Creed?
Esslemont (Baha’i author): “The religious world owes a debt of gratitude to the men of science who helped to tear such worn-out creeds and dogmas to tatters and allowed the truth to step forth free.”
Reference: J. E. Esslemont, Bahā’u’llāh and the New Era, p. 200.
RELIGION MUST BE THE SOURCE OF UNITY AND FELLOWSHIP IN THE WORLD
Written by Super UserIntroduction
“The third principle of his highness Bahā’u’llāh is that religion must be the source of fellowship. It must cause links among humanity. It must be a blessing of the Lord and if religion is a cause of enmity and a cause of war, its absence is better, and a lack of religion is better than religion. Rather, it must be the opposite. Religion must be a cause of fellowship and a cause of relations between the masses of humanity.”
Reference: `Abdu’l-Bahā, Khaṭābāt (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 146.
Baha’is believe that the Bab, Bahā’u’llāh, and `Abdu’l-Bahā were divinely inspired and received knowledge directly from God. For instance this is how Bahā’u’llāh claims he received divine knowledge:
“Whenever We desire to quote the sayings of the learned and of the wise, presently there will appear before the face of thy Lord in the form of a tablet all that which hath appeared in the world and is revealed in the Holy Books and Scriptures.”
Reference: Bahā’u’llāh, Tablets of Bahā’u’llāh Revealed After the Kitāb-i-Aqdas, p. 149.
`Abdu’l-Bahā’s Education
`Abdu’l-Bahā himself had received schooling in Tehran and had then been educated at home by his father and family members. We will not delve into this matter. We will only present two sources that clearly show an alternative source for many of his political views and superhuman knowledge:
Today I was reading the events in Italy and Turkey. Another war has started and the blood of wretched people is spilled for the lowliest causes.
Reference: `Abdu’l-Bahā, Khaṭābāt (Egypt), vol. 1, p. 87.
SHOGHI’S SAYINGS THAT CONTRADICT SCIENCE OR REASON
Written by Super UserAlthough Baha’is sometimes try to portray Shoghi as being infallible, he himself begs to differ. Here is a letter written on his behalf by his secretary in 1944:
The infallibility of the Guardian is confined to matters which are related strictly to the Cause and interpretations of the Teachings; he is not an infallible authority on other subjects, such as economics, science, etc.
CONTRADICTIONS – PART 1 RELIGION MUST BE IN CONFORMITY WITH SCIENCE AND REASON
Written by Super UserBahā’u’llāh:
“Contradiction has and will not ever have a way in the sanctified realm of the Divine Manifestations.”
Reference: Bahā’u’llāh, Badī`, p. 126.
BAHA’U’LLAH’S STATEMENTS THAT ARE AGAINST SCIENCE AND REASON
Written by Super UserThe punishment for Arson
Is this law about arson logical?
Should anyone intentionally destroy a house by fire, him also shall ye burn; should anyone deliberately take another’s life, him also shall ye put to death. Take ye hold of the precepts of God with all your strength and power, and abandon the ways of the ignorant. Should ye condemn the arsonist and the murderer to life imprisonment, it would be permissible according to the provisions of the Book. He, verily, hath power to ordain whatsoever He pleaseth.
Reference: Baha’u’llah, The Kitābi Aqdas, p. 203.