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----You might as well ask why birds fly. Ok, I'll do my best.
Given that there is God, and
he created the universe and everything we see, know, hear, feel, and are aware of in any way, the
only intelligent answer to all the questions is that he has a desire for us to know of him and for us
to reach some sort of goal.
----- If you don't agree with the
above statement we have to start somewhere else in our discussion. The biggest problem with
talking religion is finding out exactly what you DO have in agreement and start from there, so if
we don't so far agree, pleeeeaaase skip on by and look though my pages starting with Why
Religion in general.
What Bahá'u'lláh taught us is that God has sent us MANY TEACHERS over the years. These teachers are all part of his plan for the human race. Each of these teachers taught a lesson, or a "class" if you will. With his coming, man would reach a new level of understanding, civilization, technology, and art. What ever man did, he got better at it. However, don't misunderstand me in this, these teachers taught of God, the other insights came from the divine breath that bathed our world with their coming.
The key here is that Each teacher built upon what was taught before. The religions of the world are not individual islands in space, but rather they are a river, flowing from many sources into an ever larger river. Each source comes from, again, the same place. In the case of the river, this is the sky, or perhaps an underground spring. But even these come from the sky eventually, though the route may be convoluted and twisted. In the case of Religion, they all come from God. One God. If Moses teaches that there is only one God, why would any thinking man attribute that Muhammad's "Ala", who's religion was allowed by God to spread across the world with such incredible intensity, could possibly be of any source other then of God. To think otherwise is to belittle God himself, something that I wouldn't want to get caught doing.
This is all what Bahá'is call Progressive Revelation.
Today shows all the earmarks of a new age for man. A new world if you will. If you took a man from year 50 AD and put in a world of year 1700 AD you would find that he could, with some adjustment of course, fit into the society somehow and do well. His understanding of the world around him wouldn't be stretched to far. Ships might be much better made, but at least they were wind driven. Horse and carriages still being used for travel. farming still being done by man or animal power. He would see vast improvements but he could understand.
Now, take a man from the seventeen hundreds and put him in today's world, he would be LOST and have NOTHING to base ANYTHING on. Think about it!
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