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Christian author and missiologist Ed Stetzer rejects the Baháʼí Faith as a syncretic combination of faiths, [10] while Christian author John Ankerberg points to discrepancies between faiths to contradict the idea of unity of religion. [7] Christian apologist Francis J. Beckwith wrote of the Baháʼí teachings:
The Baháʼí Faith (Farsi: bahâ'iyyat, IPA: [bæhɒːʔijjæt]) is a religion [a] founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. [ b ] Established by Baháʼu'lláh , it initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing persecution since its ...
Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith) Prophets of Christianity Prophethood in the Druze faith Prophets and messengers in Islam Prophets in Judaism Chief Prophets of Mandaeism Rastafari Samaritanism; Ádam [3] [4] Adam: ʾĀdam ʾĀdam [5] — Adam — ʾĀ̊dā̊m [6] — Abel — Hābīl — — — — — Seth — Šīṯ — Šītil ...
The Baháʼí Faith: The Emerging Global Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-87743-264-3. McMullen, Michael D. (2000). The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Atlanta, Georgia: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2836-4. Lundberg, Zaid (May 1996). Baha'i Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation ...
Mírzá Mahmúd (died 1927/1928) – eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. [6] Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn – two brothers who were beheaded in the city of Isfahan in 1879. [7] Somaya Ramadan [8] (born 1951) – 2001 winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
The Baháʼí conception of God is of an "unknowable essence" who is the source of all existence and known through the perception of human virtues. The Baháʼí Faith follows the tradition of monotheism and dispensationalism, believing that God has no physical form, but periodically provides divine messengers in human form that are the sources of spiritual education.
Baha'is believe the theological dualism present in the Zoroastrian faith during the Sasanian Era was a later development. As evidence of this, Baha'is point out that the earliest Gathas - thought to be composed by Zoroaster himself - do not make mention of an evil force independent of God, an attitude only found in the more recent writings of ...
The differences between religious concepts in Buddhism and the Abrahamic religions has caused questions for Baháʼí scholarship. Jamshed Fozdar presents the Buddhist teaching about an unknowable reality as referring to the concept of God, [2] for example in the following passage from the Udana (v.81) in the Khuddaka Nikaya: "There is, O monks, an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed.