Does The Baha’i Religion Believe In The Same Stories Of The Bible And Quran?
from my understanding, the Baha’i faith is considered a continuation of other religions. I think “religious evolution” is the term used. so they believe every religion in history was from God and was revealed at differnt times to differnt people every few hundred or thousand years. so, with that said, do they believe in the stories of the Quran and Bible….such as the story of Noah and the flood and Moses?
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Bahais are not scriptural literalists; they do not believe that every story in the scriptures literally happened some time in the past, but they do read them and understand them as pictures of spiritual reality which are still true today. For example, Abdu’l-Baha recounts the story of Adama and Eve and says:
“If we take this story in its apparent meaning, according to the interpretation of the masses, it is indeed extraordinary. The intelligence cannot accept it, affirm it, or imagine it; for such arrangements, such details, such speeches and reproaches are far from being those of an intelligent man, how much less of the Divinity …”
” … the spirit and the soul of Adam, when they were attached to the human world, passed from the world of freedom into the world of bondage, and His descendants continued in bondage. This attachment of the soul and spirit to the human world, which is sin, was inherited by the descendants of Adam, and is the serpent which is always in the midst of, and at enmity with, the spirits and the descendants of Adam. That enmity continues and endures. For attachment to the world has become the cause of the bondage of spirits, and this bondage is identical with sin, which has been transmitted from Adam to His posterity. It is because of this attachment that men have been deprived of essential spirituality and exalted position…”
(Some Answered Questions, p. 125)
You can read his whole explanation athttp://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/s…
He also has a chapter on why the religions have used stories and symbols rather than literal language, athttp://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAQ/s…
In addition to the use of symbols, there is also the problem that different scriptures give different versions of the same story. Abdu’l-Baha writes, for example, “In the Hebrew Torah, it is recorded that from Noah’s flood until the birth of Abraham there was an interval of two hundred and ninety-two years. In the Greek, that time span is given as one thousand and seventy-two years, while the Samaritan, the recorded span is nine hundred and forty-two years.” (Abdu’l-Baha, The Rosenberg Tablet)
If you are trying to understand the meaning, the moral, of a story it doesn’t matter whether it was Brer Rabbit or Pippi Longstockings who outwitted the Fox, but if you take these stories literally you never get out of the briar patch of contradictions.
Kimmie,
Yes they do believe stories of the bible, and Qu’ran
I have friends that are Baha’I, and it is ridiculous….
The whole assumption that God revealed himself to selected prophets to be interpreted for the benefit of the cultures they existed in is Atrocious.
I am pretty tolerant of religions but that is ****ing stupid. So all wars, and the various factioning, and the horrific intolerance of religious people is because God just gave them a little peek of himself on a mountain with no one around.
That god is irresponsible, and malicious towards all of humanity.
It would be tricky, since according to the bible Jesus was crucified and died,
And according to the Quran he wasn’t and didn’t.
Baha’i has to be quite selective about what it takes from the religions that preceded it, and also in how it interpretes their teachings in order to fit its own.
It considers *itself* to be the next step in a continuing revelation, yes.
they closest to hindu. they do not believe in islam. if yes, why they do not pray like a muslim?