Feb17
Treasure Seekers
I often daydream about what goes on in the minds of the readers who witness the important words in this blog. My hope is that people are more likely to be intellectual than emotionally swayed. The emotional “knee jerk” reaction to finding out that they have been “kept in the dark” from learning may lead people to continue to “seek the truth,” or it may frighten them out of their curiosity because believing the lies that the masses believe is easier.
Jeff’s article below, explains how our community has a “faith based on proof.” In the movie, “National Treasure,” the hero believes that he is endowed with mental skills large enough to figure out where the treasure was hidden. Likewise, I believe that human beings are smart enough to figure out the “code” by which God has given us important instructions. If we break the “code” of prophecy and determine who speaks for God, then all messages from that messenger are believable. Many readers will believe that Jesus speaks for God, but they follow church doctrine instead of Jesus.
We invite you, dear reader, to use the skills God has given you to recognize God.
More important than a “National Treasure,” we set before you the “pearl of great price.”
“The physical existence we have is our opportunity to recognize and accept God. In doing this we acquire Godly attributes and are able to advance toward God, and possibly obtain that station which God has ordained, or put aside for us in the next life. We can hasten or halt our progress toward that station by our beliefs, and the deeds that we do in this life. If we do not accomplish this during our existence here on the physical plane, we enter the next life handicapped. Our progress toward that station in the next life is only by God’s Mercy. There is no free will in the next life. Those that come into the Kingdom here on earth receive the pearl of great price, for they used their free will to come into the Kingdom. This pearl of great price is the High station that God had set aside for them, which is glorious beyond all conceptions.”
(”Entry by Troops” by J.T. Lamb pages 460-461.)
Did you get that? The pearl of great price is glorious beyond all conceptions. Glorious!
Collin
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8:34 am on March 02, 2007
The study on Faith and its implications on religion is highly interesting to study throughout history. Way back, Socrates and Plato addresses the affects of Faith and in Philosophy of religion and life, faith is considered a viable source, however many great thinkers in the past have rejected faith as a viable source of true knowledge. I was just reading about “Pascal’s Wager” wherein he states that if you wager if God exists or not - its better to wage that he does. Here’s why - If you wage that he does - you will get infinite gain in the next world through eternal life, if you wage he doesn’t exist, you will receive infinite loss in the next world, if you wage he does exist and you are wrong when you die, you don’t really loss much, therefore, better to wager he does exist. This is the topic of many philosophers and thinkers because so many have come to the conclusion that there is no way to know through scientific methods whether He exists or doesn’t exist! So many great thinkers have concluded that since there is no way to truly know scientifically, one must take the “leap of faith”. After one takes the leap of faith, it is probable that you will have a mystical experience that will bring you certitude.
It is wonderful that in the Baha’i Faith, there is no blind leap of faith that one must take, rather, God has provided scientific rational proofs that can tell the true thinker, YES, God does exist and He is real, alive, and active in our world and Baha’u'llah is His true messenger who has brought the true and rational and spiritual solution to all who seek for it!
According to Socrates, there are three parts of our soul, the spirited, the desirous, and the rational. He indicates that most people approach knowledge, especially new knowledge not through their rational faculties but rather though the desirous or the spirited, so when we hear something that goes against our beliefs, we become angry. That’s why it’s so important that we, as humanity, approach this new knowledge of God with unemotional reason.