admin @ October 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At the website contenderministries.org is a series of articles that attempt to discredit the Baha’i Faith. There are false statements at the site, and this post is likely the first of several to highlight the inaccuracies at contenderministries.org.
There is a chart at the page www.contenderministries.org/bahai.php from the book, The Challenge of Cults, by Ron Rhodes. […]
admin @ January 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Therefore the Lord of mankind has caused His holy divine Manifestations to come into the world. He has revealed His heavenly books in order to establish spiritual brotherhood, and through the power of the Holy Spirit has made it practicable for perfect fraternity to be realized among mankind. And when through the breaths of the […]
admin @ December 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Universal House of Justice guides activity of the Baha’i community and is the supreme legislative body of the Baha’i administrative order. ‘Abdu’l-Baha wrote that all questions and issues that are not addressed in the Baha’i Writings “must be referred to the Universal House of Justice. That which this body, whether unanimously or […]
admin @ December 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In Hope for a Global Ethic, Brian Lepard provides selections of scripture from seven major world religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha’i Faith. [1] He outlines common ethical principles by comparing the sacred writings. It is believed that by translating into reality the teachings of religion many difficult […]
admin @ December 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In The Seven Valleys, a mystic work that discusses the path in the journey to find God, Baha’u’llah writes that “the seeker reacheth a stage wherein he seeth all created things wandering distracted in search of the Friend. How many a Jacob will he see, hunting after his Joseph; he will behold many a […]
admin @ December 14, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Baha’u’llah writes that the most recent Revelation from God is the same as the eternal Faith of God:
“Take heed that ye do not vacillate in your determination to embrace the truth of this Cause — a Cause through which the potentialities of the might of God have been revealed, and His sovereignty established. With faces […]
admin @ December 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Baha’u’llah addresses Christians in the Lawh-i-Aqdas, the Most Holy Tablet.
“This is the Most Holy Tablet sent down from the holy kingdom unto the one who hath set his face towards the Object of the adoration of the world, He Who hath come from the heaven of eternity, invested with transcendent glory
In […]
admin @ November 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Gaining wisdom from the Teachings of Baha’u’llah is compared to searching in the depths of the ocean and discovering pearls:
“This is the Voice of God, if ye do but hearken. This is the Day Spring of the Revelation of God, did ye but know it…. This is the manifest and hidden Secret; would that ye […]
admin @ November 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Baha’u’llah has announced that He is the Promised One foretold in the world religions revealed throughout human history. There is a vast amount of scripture available to investigate such a claim. A plan is to periodically publish posts on “Arise” that highlight the connections between the Baha’i Faith and the Teachings sent from […]