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From: lip@masscomp.UUCP (John Lipinski)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: God and His Manifestations - Progressive Revelation
Message-ID: <195@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 14:11:22 EST
Article-I.D.: masscomp.195
Posted: Mon Jan  7 14:11:22 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:13:33 EST
References: <697@hou2h.UUCP>
Reply-To: lip@masscomp.UUCP (John Lipinski)
Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA
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Summary: 

In article <697@hou2h.UUCP> vc@hou2h.UUCP (Verbus M. Counts) writes:
>
> From the writings of Baha`'u'llah:
>
> Know thou assuredly that the essence of all the prophets of God is  one
> and  the same.  Their unity is absolute. God, the Creator, saith: There
> is no distinction whatsoever among the Bearers of My Message.  They all
> have but one purpose their secret is the same secret.  To prefer one in
> honor to another, to exalt certain ones above the rest, is in  no  wise
> to  be  permitted.   Every  true  Prophet hath  regarded His Message as
> fundamentally the same as the Revelation of every  other  Prophet  gone
> before   Him.

But how do you explain conflicting and contradicting messages among
religions?  For example,

	1. The jewish religion states that Jesus is a false prophet.
	2. Many societies of indians of the western hemisphere practice
	   polytheism while christianity and judaism are strictly
	   monotheistic.
	3. The koran and the bible have several cases of conflicting
	   moral messages and messages that conflict over who should
	   control certain lands.

					- John Lipinski