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  1. Matthias

    The happy thread

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    The happy thread

  3. Matthias

    Bar one exception

    “My belief”? It’s surprising for me to hear you speak about your belief. In the past you’ve been outspoken about and against belief. What has changed for you?
  4. Matthias

    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    Precisely. You’re out. I’m not going out. I’m inviting you in. That doesn’t address my target. That’s right. Agreed. I’ve used Baha’i teaching from Baha’i sources. If there is any misrepresentation then it‘s the Baha’i sources which are responsible. That’s why I requested confirmation...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    The Baha’i religion isn’t the primitive Christian religion. The Baha’i religion presents a different belief under the banner of “truth”. It isn’t truth that the Baha’i religion offers. The Baha’i religion has cannibalized other religions (Christianity, Islam - which is where the Baha’i religion...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    The return of Christ is the return of Jesus Christ himself in primitive Christian belief. It’s not negotiable. It’s a take it or leave it proposition. Some Christians have left it. The Baha’i religion teaches against it.
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    That’s clear. I caution people about compromising with the truth in order to bond. I’m not going to bond myself with a non-Christian religion and I will speak out against it. It’s spiritual harlotry. You’re defending the Baha’i religion. I‘ve been speaking frankly (as you requested some time...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    As my critics sometimes point out (“He’s a one trick pony”), I will say the same thing a thousand different ways, trying to find a way of saying it that will cause the truth to click in the mind of another. (One of the good and valuable things I was taught about learning styles in the Christian...
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    The Chosen - Godly Truth or Dangerous Fiction?

    Please don’t take my word for it. Do your own homework. Don’t let others do it for you. (Sounds like something an old teacher might say - and millions of them have.) I grant you that can happen (disciples of Jesus are a work in progress) but my model, my example, my teacher, is the Messiah. He...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    Anyone who does will be sorely disappointed. My OP is pointedly directed against the Baha’i religion. I used Baha’i teaching in the OP and invited you to say whatever you might want to say in defense of the religion. The more open and candid you are about it the better. I commend you for that...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    I’m glad you’re here. The views are placed side by side and the reader must decide for himself or herself which is Holy Spirit and which claims to be but isn’t. Test the spirits. The spirit of Baha’i is evil, not holy, in the eyes of the primitive Church.
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    “One does not sell their Mother.” - A Lakota proverb (Rebecca Clarren, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance, p. 125) The primitive Christian Church is my mother. I won’t sell my mother. The renewed and restored earth is my promised land. The earth is my...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    The spirit of Baha’i is a seducing spirit. It will move the reader away from the the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints in the 1st century to a shiny new faith - one which presents itself as “more relevant, advanced, or complete.” What does the seducing spirit imply about...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    The dead are not alive. That’s a fair point. They still speak for me. Any question put to me is a question put to them. The spirit of Christ you are talking about (Baha’u’llah, per the Baha’i teaching quoted in the OP) isn’t the spirt of Jesus Christ himself.
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    The happy thread

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    The happy thread

  17. Matthias

    The happy thread

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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    “Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once and for all delivered to the saints.” (Jude 1:3, WEB) The faith that Jude is speaking about isn’t the Baha’i faith. The...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    I’m pointing out to our readers that you’re a non-Christian who is using, in fact misusing, the Bible and your use / misuse - I’ll even go so far as to say, abuse - of the scriptures has produced a non-Christian faith / religion - which was not, is not, and never will be the intention of the one...
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    The “Return” of Christ: What Does it Mean?

    I’m not defined by Baha’i faith. I’m defined by the Messiah’s faith.