Shake my head
This is what I have come across this week:
A female minister looked at me and said that she looks to cool to be a pastor and that she had the coolest job because she was able to be in the Lord's house and in presence of the Lord everyday and that others only get to be in His presence one day a week.
Pardon me but are we not in the presence of the Lord when we pray, etc.?
Does anyone know anything about Bahai? I looked it up on google but it does not make sense to me.
posted by Kirken @ 22:20
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Bahai is a monotheistic faith that looks at itself as the logical completion of Islam. Its founder, the 'prophet' Bahaullah, believed that the human heart is essentially good, and simply needs to be developed rightly. At the core of Bahai is the essential belief that all prophets have had some connection to the greater divine truth. The only way of truly knowing God is to pay attention to the teachings of one of his manifesting prophets--who are thought to be special spiritual beings in human form, sent from god to this world. So Jesus, Moses, Buddha, and Mohammed are all prophets manifesting the insight into the divine, but Bahaullah is the latest and greatest in this chain.
After death, the Bahai believe that the spirit continues on a quest toward the light of god, which culminates in going to 'heaven'.
There's a lot more, but the essence of Bahai is that they see their religion as the one true faith of which Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam are mere splinters. They see themselves as on a quest for the full presence of God, but sadly, have the wrong god, so will never find Him.
Any quest for God which treats Jesus Christ as merely an exalted prophet, or even a spiritual manifestation of the divine, but not as God Himself, is bound to fall short.
It's really just another variation on a clever mix of Pelagian and Arian heresies.
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