what is life like after the second coming?
are we still water-skiing or playing volleyball on the beach or twittering? Do we have all of our modern conveniences, like our computers and cell phones and such?
are we still water-skiing or playing volleyball on the beach or twittering? Do we have all of our modern conveniences, like our computers and cell phones and such?
B Knott Wildered
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Look around you. There is your answer. The Second Coming has already occurred (1844) and we are well on the path to world peace. What will life be like in the future? More peaceful by far than it is today. We are at the very dawning of mankind's Golden Age. The reality is that the return of Christ, the Tenth Avatar, the Buddha Maitreya and all the other prophecies about the appearance or return of a Great Messenger from God and the Time of the End (of the Age) all refer to the same great event, the same individual. That individual was Baha'u'llah (1817-1892) who is the Prophet/founder of the world's second-most widespread religion, the Baha'i Faith. Just as the Jews are still expecting the fulfillment of prophecies that were actually fulfilled by Jesus, I expect two thousand years from now you will find a handful of Christians enjoying peace yet loudly proclaiming, "Better get right with God! Christ will be here any time now!" And yet the signs are there, the proof readily available that the return has, indeed, already occurred.
The Baha'i Faith, uniting the world one heart at a time.
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There can be no doubt whatever that the peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion, derive their inspiration from one heavenly Source, and are the subjects of one God. The difference between the ordinances under which they abide should be attributed to the varying requirements and exigencies of the age in which they were revealed.
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 217)
The Jews await the Messiah, the Christians the return of Christ, the Moslems the Mahdi, the Buddhists the fifth Buddha, the Zoroastrians Shah Bahram, the Hindus the reincarnation of Krishna, and the Atheists - a better social organization! Baha'u'llah represents all these, and thus destroys the rivalries and the enmities of the different religions; reconciles them in their primitive purity, and frees them from the corruption of dogmas and rites.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v1, p. vii)
O Jews! If ye be intent on crucifying once again Jesus, the Spirit of God, put Me to death, for He hath once more, in My person, been made manifest unto you. Deal with Me as ye wish, for I have vowed to lay down My life in the path of God. I will fear no one, though the powers of earth and heaven be leagued against Me. Followers of the Gospel! If ye cherish the desire to slay Muhammad, the Apostle of God, seize Me and put an end to My life, for I am He, and My Self is His Self. Do unto Me as ye like, for the deepest longing of Mine heart is to attain the presence of My Best-Beloved in His Kingdom of Glory. Such is the Divine decree, if ye know it. Followers of Muhammad! If it be your wish to riddle with your shafts the breast of Him Who hath caused His Book the Bayan to be sent down unto you, lay hands on Me and persecute Me, for I am His Well-Beloved, the revelation of His own Self, though My name be not His name. I have come in the shadows of the clouds of glory, and am invested by God with invincible sovereignty. He, verily, is the Truth, the Knower of things unseen. I, verily, anticipate from you the treatment ye have accorded unto Him that came before Me. To this all things, verily, witness, if ye be of those who hearken. O people of the Bayan! If ye have resolved to shed the blood of Him Whose coming the Báb hath proclaimed, Whose advent Muhammad hath prophesied, and Whose Revelation Jesus Christ Himself hath announced, behold Me standing, ready and defenseless, before you. Deal with Me after your own desires.
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 100)
bigdavid205
Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era
a great book read it 40 years ago thanks for the online copy
Writing of religion as a social force, Bahá'u'lláh said: "Religion is the greatest of all means for the establishment of order in the world and for the peaceful contentment of all that dwell therein." Referring to the eclipse or corruption of religion, he wrote: "Should the lamp of religion be obscured, chaos and confusion will ensue, and the lights of fairness, of justice, of tranquillity and peace cease to shine." In an enumeration of such consequences the Bahá'í writings point out that the "perversion of human nature, the degradation of human conduct, the corruption and dissolution of human institutions, reveal themselves, under such circumstances, in their worst and most revolting aspects. Human character is debased, confidence is shaken, the nerves of discipline are relaxed, the voice of human conscience is stilled, the sense of decency and shame is obscured, conceptions of duty, of solidarity, of reciprocity and loyalty are distorted, and the very feeling of peacefulness, of joy and of hope is gradually extinguished."
apley
It below no situations left. HOLY SMOKE PIE a million a million/2 c. flour a million stick butter a million/2 c. nuts mixture above and put in pie plate. Bake till at last brown at 350 stages. permit cool. a million c. powdered sugar a million (8 ounces..) pkg. cream cheese Fold in a million cup Cool Whip. unfold over cooled crust and located layer of strawberries over this. mixture mutually a million small kit vanilla instantaneous pudding and a million 2/3 cups chilly milk. Beat till at last thick. unfold over strawberries. located the the remainder of great Cool Whip on optimum ideal and sprinkle with nuts. hint: in case you %. chocolate, in basic terms put in chocolate instantaneous pudding and pass away out strawberries. You *have been* speaking of the dessert "Holy Smoke", have been you no longer?
Anonymous
It's pretty much the same except there's a shortage of umbrellas.
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You are crazy. Anyone who seriously answers this is crazy. I hope you change your beliefs before you hurt someone.