Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha — John Shaqi
Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul BahaWilson, Samuel Graham
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Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha
Wilson, Samuel Graham
Bahai Faith -- Controversial literature
I cannot understand how a Christian can possibly exchange the clear
consistent plan of salvation through Christ for the misty and mystical
platitudes of Bahaism.--_Ibid., p. 687._
Bahaism makes various claims of a practical nature. Some of these will
require detailed treatment. Several of them I will group in this
chapter. Additional light is thrown on the question of their validity by
facts subsequently brought forward, for many facts have a bearing on
several subjects.
Among the specific claims put forth by Bahaism is that of being
_specially adapted to promote the unification of mankind_, and of
accomplishing that end. Bahaism reiterates the Christian ideas that God
hath made of one blood all nations and that all shall be united in God's
spiritual kingdom. It repeats as a slogan, "the brotherhood of man." C.
M. Remey[91] says: "The Bahai cause stands for the unity of all
religions, political unity of nations, the social unity of all classes,
peoples and races." "Its aim," says Harold Johnson, "is to knit all the
faiths and all the peoples into one."[92] "The essential principle of
the teachings of Bahaism is the unification of the religious systems of
the world," says MacNutt.[93] This is a high ideal, which interpreted in
their several ways is the aim of Christianity, Islam, Socialism, etc.
And Bahai writers mean what all the other systems have meant, namely,
unity by all accepting their beliefs, for Remey[94] says: "Baha Ullah's
mission is to unite those now following many systems into one
brotherhood and one universal faith.... May God speed the day when all
of us may become true _Bahais_."
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