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ARTICLES RELATED TO Progressive revelation - Religion likened a school | | | |  Progressive revelation - Religion likened a school: Encyclopedia II - Progressive revelation - Religion likened a schoolHumanity is likened to a child that grows and needs training at various stages. Religion, therefore, is likened to a school, where the pupil (humanity) goes through various courses and various grades. Arithmetic, for example, is taught before algebra; algebra before geometry; geometry before trigonometry; and so on. It would be unreasonable for a teacher who may know calculus to attempt to teach it to a student who did not know basic arithmetic and mathematical symbols. This is not a lack within the ...
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Progressive revelation - Kitáb-i-Íqán.
Bahá'u'lláh's seminal Kitáb-i-Íqán is probably the best original description of the Bahá'í view of Progressive Revelation. In it Bahá'u'lláh describes the relationships between several Abrahamic prophets and how each accepted the previous, but was rejected by the previous prophet's followers. He uses these examples to highlight the legitimacy of the Báb to the reader, since the book was written in answer to some questions from the Báb's uncle. The work, however, establishes this core doctrine of the Bahá ...
See also:Progressive revelation, Progressive revelation - Revelation, Progressive revelation - Purpose of Religion, Progressive revelation - Religion likened a school, Progressive revelation - Religious teaching of two kinds, Progressive revelation - Establishing Texts, Progressive revelation - Kitáb-i-Íqán Read more here: » Progressive revelation: Encyclopedia II - Progressive revelation - Establishing Texts |
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| | | | Progressive revelation - Religion likened a school: Encyclopedia II - Progressive revelation - Religious teaching of two kinds Bahá'ís believe that religious teachings are of two varieties: essential spriritual truth, and ephemeral social constructs. The latter may include laws of conduct, diet, institutions, ceremonies, etc. These may change dramatically from Manifestation to Manifestation. The former, however, are essential and do not change, except perhaps in their cultural presentation.
A good example of this is the prohibition on the consumption of cloven-hooved animals in Judaism, which is seen by Bahá'ís as a sound teaching necessary for public hea ...
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