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Dear friends
Today I will tell you what is my opinion regarding the ageold concept of RESURRECTION, What is that?
I guess many religious people regard it with some awe and expectation
at the same time. In their minds some people are postponing this sure
Divine Event with a thousand year, year after year, just like they
postpone
the Judgement Day. Do they they believe they have to be doomed?
I think they should otherwise pray God to make the Resurrection come
as early as
possible.
But, I know, all too many believe that while in the grave, under the
lid of a coffin we will all of a sudden brake through it and up to the
surface of the earth and fly to heaven. Of course that would be very
dramatic and chaotic so maybe it should be postponed. If I believed
that I might have postponed it too. For who knows what God knows about us and our innermost.
As a Bahai I am released from belief in such a description of
Resurrection, which is called a literal interpretation of the text.
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Here is the non-literal explanation with exemples.:
The diciples of Christ were resurrected through their Faith in Him. The
Israelites were resurrected through Faith in Moses. And abandoned the worship of the calf or whatever. Surely the diciples
of Christ did not die first in order to reach the heaven of their
hearts, which is Faith in the Almighty God, through the love-creating
works and Words of His Son Jesus.Neither are there any records of the
Israelites dying first when turning to the life- giving Words of His
Holiness Moses.
I believe.:
In the Bible by death is meant spiritual death.Not physical death.
I was dead spiritually before I received Faith in God through the Holy Spirit . So we are resurrected from spiritual death.
By grave is meant to be remote from God, to roam the desolate"
wilderness of unbelief", to be lost in the whims and fancies and what not which abounds in the age
in which we live, all due to the loss of spiritual life.
Moreover: this is an age when the seekers for Truth are looking for another
death, which is how to die from the world and live in God. It is a time
when faith has taken on the character of belief in the letter, just as it was
when Jesus came, and not belief through the spirit. The Pharisees and their followers were literalists and dead. They were lieing in their graves, spritually speaking.They refused to be born of the Spirit, so what remained, a literal understanding, leading to the sacrifice that Jesus went through.
The Great Resurrection Day after Jesus , what is that then? The Resurrection which is spoken of so eagerly. My answer is that it is the Arrival of the BAB, The Herald of Bahaullah,
and that was also the return of Elijah. Elias. This happened in 1844.
By then the sign of which Jesus has spoken occurred. The GOSPEL HAD
REACHED EVERY COUNTRY AND REGION OF THE GLOBE.The interior of Africa
was reached by the Word of of Jesus in 1844!!!!! People all over the
world were sent out to spread the Gospel IN ORDER TO DELIBERATELY HELP
GOD ADVANCE THE RESURRECTION DAY. To study the enormous missionary work
that was done by Christians all over the world is most fashinating. I
promise you.If you do you have a brave heart, eagerly seeking the whole
and
pressing Truth behind the huge never ever seen global outburst of
activities among the Christians of the time? Then go for it. It is all
well documented. Sure all this is for real.
Make a pause here, and say to your self, Jesus promises are real and true, so I must act according to them. This way I will be happy and this way only will Jesus be happy for my sake.
If you just look at this single sign of Jesus , the Gospel having
reached all corners of the earth, and follow it up with examining what God has brought for us in 1844 and
do not bother about all the other signs, (Which actually form a
streaming flood) you will be so amazed, and be so filled with
thankfulness to the loving beneficent God that you'll never forget it.
It will be imprinted in your soul forever and fill your heart with
everlasting
joy and an abiding sense of security. And your love for Jesus and His gladness will increase greatly as it has for me..
And you will understand what this means: "No one knows the joy of the mystic".
Now, see, this. the Bab founded a religion too, containing laws and
prescriptions on top of giving the Glad Tidings of the near Advent of
"HIM WHOM GOD WILL MADE MANIFEST".
By HIM the Bab meant the arrival of the Glory of God, Bahaullah, who is the Son COME IN THE GLORY OF HIS FATHER.
After only 19 years, in 1863 Bahaullah declared to His hearers that He was the One the Bab had predicted to come.
Talking about Resurrection, that Day in 1863 was the Resurrection day,
once again, for the Babis. Some believed in Bahaullah, some hesitated
and were of the lost ones. There are still Babis in the world. It
sounds strange to me.
For me when having gained my Faith in Bahaullah, through the
intervention of Gods helping hand, I was also resurrected, after having
immersed myself "in the Ocean of His Revelation". As can all
and everybody be.
You do not have to die first. You are in heaven, heart soaring in the
heaven of Gods love, when you just turn your heart to Bahaullah, which
is to turn to the "Whole Truth" which the diciples "couldn't
bear."Remember Jesus' words. His
name is everywhere in the Bible, "the Glory of the Lord," coming
"through
the way of the East". "Even from Assyria".
So this time it is a global resurrection day or time, and this experience is in
another way, a wonderful way, just as dramatic as the literal
understanding of the resurrection.
The first message of Morse,, in 1844 (oct) was ."What has God wrought?"
Many a loving soul has shed his life-blood in the Path of the Lord and been martyred for carrying this message to the hearts of men. It is well documented. Even priests of that aerea, Iran,- where the Revelations and the very first Resurrections of people took place,- took part with their own hands in the slaying of pious righteous souls. Bahaullah was tortured and banished, the Bab was shot. (during miraculous circumstances.)
There is a practical point to this spiritual way of looking at the Resurrection. One gets the
great advantage of being able to tell people on earth about it, to help them find the means to resurrect. Spiritually.
If this event was to be taken literally then how would you be able,
while floating in the atmosphere, to tell people the Glad Tidings of
the Holy Arrival of Gods Mightiest Manifestation, after a long period of
about 1300 years,(since Muhammed) or if you prefer, after about 2000
years since the time of Jesus. You would indeed have to scream very load then if you wanted to tell somebody about you being resurrected into the sky.
With the spiritual understanding one doesn't need belief in miracles,
such as soaring up into this firmament or something else , vaguely
imagined, which is equally contradictive of Gods Mercy and Wisdom. And
in this way you understand that the greatest Miracle is the intense
gladness , love and strength you receive from God through the Holy
Spirit. If you want to soar, I tell you,
to soar is simply to be glad in the love of the Lord. Find that joy and
that heaven instead!
What
did Jesus mean when He said,He "came from heaven", do you think?. Of
course it is this heaven of eternal bliss and spiritual reality. It is
so clear , clearer then the light of the sun in the sky.
So, a conclusion: God knows well that He must treat us humans according
to our finite minds, He doesn't violate our intellect either, forcing
miracles upon us. The Holy
Being, God, still exceeds all that we ever can imagine and His eternal
and inscrutable sovereignty is not diminished, by giving us this
solution to our salvation today which I have presented here.On the contrary, we see God as a
still higher Sovereign and Helper.
Still, it is not easy to get
the heart filled to the brim with this heaven, one must make some
effort, seek out the Books of Revelation, reread the old texts to be assured ,one must dispel the mists and clouds of misinterpretations of
the Holy Books that has been done formerly by almighty leaders of the
churches. One must empty oneself of superstitious concepts that has
been handed down through the centuries.Prejudice must be abandoned.The heart must be fully
prayerfully exposed to Gods mercifulness in order to receive His
Guidance, Above all: be a seeker of the Truth.
Be a seeker of the Truth and not any more be an adherent to unwise dogmas that obscure the
emergence of the Holy Truth. These dogmas are the clouds that follows
the Holy Return, which Jesus tells us about.
Concerning death, physical death. Bahaullah reveals this:
O SON OF THE SUPREME!
I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve? I made the light to shed on thee its splendour.
Why dost thou veil thyself therefrom?
O SON OF SPIRIT!
With the joyful tidings of light I hail thee;
rejoice! To the court of holiness
I summon thee; abide therein that thou mayest live in peace for evermore.
Bahaullah
The Glory of God
The
Lord is All-powerful in all His Kingdoms and where we dwell after
physical death and in His wisdom He will rescue those who are dead and
restore their Faith, through His Messenger Bahaullah,
I may have
spoken very cathegorically, but all I have said is due to my firm
Faith , to spiritual arguments and according to reason .Such is my
Faith.
"You should love God with all your heart, your soul and your understanding," says the Holy Oldest Texts.(My faulty translation)
Bye
for now. I hope this will make my forum explode with interesting
viewpoints. That arguments for and against will appear abundantly.
Kind regards from
Laila
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