I must admit there are times I get frustrated. Watching TV tonight (I will admit I am a huge Survivor fan) I was enraged with a comment from James. People can be so ignorant sometimes and as we say in our house “Pardon me why I unfold my soapbox.”
There are people out there that think different religions believe in different Gods. Well, yes that is true for a few religions, but for most religions that is not the case. For Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Baha’is we all believe in only one God. If, you study religion any of the last religions, I have mentioned you will see they share a lineage, Abraham.
Abraham and Sarah
From Sarah her son Jacob brought us David and Levi brought us prophet Moses. These two were great leaders of the Jewish faith and the beginning seeds of Christianity with generations later the birth of the prophet Jesus Christ.
Abraham and Keturah
From Keturah children we had the prophets of Krishna, Zoroaster, and Buddha.
Abraham and Hagar
From Hagar we had the prophet Muhammad.
Then through generations of and centuries we had the families of David and Moses come back together for the birth of Jesus Christ. Almost two thousand years later, Zoroaster and Muhammad’s family joined for the birth of The Bab, who foretold the coming of Baha’u’llah. From the lineage of Zoroaster and David we Baha’u’llah.
All these religions have one thing in common, Abraham and his God. Whatever he is called, he is the same God, the same light of knowledge and love. Imagine God as the sun, shining down and each prophet the mirror that reflects down to each believer. The basic teachings have always been the same, just more has been added as we are ready to understand it.
Have you ever tried to read the Torah, Qur’an and compared them to the Bible? It is interesting to see how similar they are. Basic principals, just told slightly differently, remember they all had the same beginnings and the same leader Abraham.
I fold up my soapbox and leave you with a few quotes to ponder:
Therefore we must follow and adore the virtues revealed in the messengers of God whether in Abraham, Moses, Jesus or other prophets but we must not adhere to and adore the lamp.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Foundations of World Unity, p. 16)
The Divine Messengers have been sent down, and their Books were revealed, for the purpose of promoting the knowledge of God, and of furthering unity and fellowship amongst men.
(Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 12)
If thou be of the inmates of this city within the ocean of divine unity, thou wilt view all the Prophets and Messengers of God as one soul and one body, as one light and one spirit, in such wise that the first among them would be last and the last would be first.
(Baha'u'llah, Gems of Divine Mysteries, p. 24)
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