Guest Author - Sandy Mullins

The message of the Manifestations of God (prophets), never really changes, but as mankind is ready for more information the latest Manifestation of God brings it.

For Jesus to talk about, let’s say World Peace, in the day when nothing was known about the world being round or it being as large as it was, would have been impractical for the followers to understand. Jesus’s mission was salvation and compassion, and sharing Gods love.

In Mohammed's age to teach of equality of the sexes and knowledge of God’s teaching, when women were property and only very few could read was not possible.

As man progressed and discovered the world around him and was better educated, it was a time for the peoples of the world to learn to live in peace, with respect and love for all it’s people. Equality was a major issue in the United States, the civil war and freeing of slaves, and women fighting for equal rights were in the early stages. Kings and rulers were being overthrown all over the world.

People traveled all around the world and we learned how big and diverse our planet was. The time was right, wars were larger and on the horizon and weapons of mass destruction were just around the corner. Now was a time for Gods Manifestation to come again, to teach us love and respect for each other and their diversities. Baha’u’llah came and called on the nations of the world to live in peace and Abdu’l-Bahá followed in his father’s footsteps and continued asking the world’s leaders to join together in the search of ‘The Greater Peace’. Through the teaching of the Baha’i Faith we learn to love one another, and rejoice and celebrate the diversities of the Earth’s peoples.

The religion of God has two aspects in this world. The spiritual (the real) and the formal (the outward). The formal side changes, as man changes from age to age. The spiritual side which is the Truth, never changes. The Prophets and Manifestations of God bring always the same teaching; at first men cling to the Truth but after a time they disfigure it. The Truth is distorted by man-made outward forms and material laws. The veil of substance and worldliness is drawn across the reality of Truth.

As Moses and Jesus brought their Message to the people, so Bahá'u'lláh brings the same Message.

Each time God sends a Great One to us we are given new life, but the Truth each Manifestation brings is the same. The Truth never changes but man's vision changes. (Abdu’l-Bahá, Abdu'l-Bahá in London, p. 56)

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