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The religious movement we deem the Baha’i faith comprises an understanding encompassing
a transformation through many messengers, not merely Jesus, towards a God seen as the one
deity. Holiness is achieved through transformation accomplished over spiritual growth and good
assistance all over the surface of our Earth. This includes the improvement of a unified or global
Today, while there may be a great emphasis placed on individual considerations throughout
man’s life, the Baha’i faith around the world continues its vigilance in spreading a unique
unification message; however, with the (Baha’i International Community (Ed.), 2008)
listing that, “humanity is one single race and that the day has come for its unification in one
global society. God, Baha’u’llah said, has set in motion historical forces that are breaking down
traditional barriers of race, class, creed, and nation and that will, in time, give birth to a universal
civilization. The principal challenge facing the peoples of the earth is to accept the fact of their
While Islam continues to make up some degree of the Baha’i faith members around the
world, as the youngest yet second largest faith located within thousands of communities all over
the world, the Baha’i faith comprises many types of individuals. There continues for much a part
of the faith’s overall tenets an inclusion for those with a wide variety of beliefs. According to the
authoritative Baha’i web resource Baha’i Topics, the organization (Baha’i (Ed.), 2008) points to
the fact that,” founder, Baha’u’llah (1817-1892), is regarded by Baha’is’ as the most recent in the
line of Messengers of God that stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham,
The faith has accepted many peoples into its once smaller faith, though means of accepting all
(Baha’i (Ed.), 2008), which states flatly concerning their leader and the faith itself that
“Baha’u’llah claimed to be nothing less than a new and independent Messenger from God. His
life, work, and influence parallel that of Abraham, Krishna, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Christ,
and Muhammad. Baha’is’ view Baha’u’llah as the most recent in this succession of divine
Messengers. The essential message of Baha’u’llah is that of unity. He taught that there is only
one God, that there is only one human race, and that all the world’s religions represent stages in
The faith is a religion based on one, single body, almost absent of divisions or splinters found
in most every other organized belief system. There are many groups represented in that many
types of ethnocentric centers are the membership from tens of thousands of areas all over the
The faith holds that human beings, or mankind itself, is maturing into what is hence
forth a whole or greater humanity possessing a peaceful resolve towards a truly more globall
society. There would be many improvements, both in our spiritual tenure on Earth and in our
daily lives. As recounted through the means of the internet by the Bahia International
Community website The Baha’i’s`, the organization (Baha’i (Ed.), 2008) points out that, “Since
it also forms a single community, free of schism or factions, the Baha’i Faith comprises what is
very likely the most diverse and widespread organized body of people on earth.” This
Community (Baha’i (Ed.), 2008) also similarly contends that, “the Faith’s most distinctive
accomplishment by far, however, is its unity. Unlike every other religion — not to mention most
social and political movements — the Baha’i community has successfully resisted the perennial
impulse to divide into sects and subgroups. It has maintained its unity despite a history as
This includes tenets that preclude any and all racism, inequality, the facilitation by any means
as poverty or too much excess and any lack of overall religious unity. It incorporates the
doctrines that desire truth, togetherness between religion and scientific teachings, the
mantainance of universal levels of teaching throughout the Globe on a stated more equal level
as well as a need for a great body of nations to rule as a joint exercise (Baha’i (Ed.), 2008).
Certainly, it can be added here in addition, that the Baha’i faith is mainstream Islam itself in
at least one sense, that of the mutual acceptance among its members in the Islam beliefs, as
pointed to by the Baha’i International Community, itself, where it states on its comprehensive
(Baha’i (Ed.), 2008) website, “baha’is believe in the Oneness of God. This leads them to believe
in the Oneness of Religion, the "changeless Faith of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the
future." In this sense, the Baha'i Faith is related to all past religions. Its roots however, are in the
religion which immediately preceded it, Islam. This relationship is analogous to that between
Christianity and Judaism. This has led sometimes to the inaccurate perception of the Baha'i Faith
as a sect of Islam. Before we go any further, it should be stated that the Baha'i Faith,
unequivocally, and without any hesitation, teaches and asserts the divine origin of Islam. It
affirms that the Holy Qur'an is God's revelation, pure and unaltered, and that Muhammad
(PBUH) is God's Servant and Messenger and the Seal of the Prophets. People from every
religious and ethnic background who embrace the Baha'i Faith, embrace this belief.”
ROLE # 10 – One Part of Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit - Christianity
(Religion Facts 8 Feb. 2007)
Running Head: THE BAHA’I FAITH FRAMEWORK AND 6
References
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