Tag: "Manifestations of God, Rejection of"

tag name	Manifestations of God, Rejection of	type:	Religion, general
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Manifestations_of_God,_Rejection_of
related tags	- Manifestations of God; – Concepts, Religious; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Manifestations of God, Recognition of; Opposition; Rejection
referring tags	Clouds
notes	See chapter 1, sections 18, 19 and 20 "Why the People Reject God’s Manifestation", in Baha'i Sacred Writings.
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "... His purpose, however, is to enable the pure in spirit and the detached in heart to ascend, by virtue of their own innate powers, unto the shores of the Most Great Ocean, that thereby they who seek the Beauty of the All-Glorious may be distinguished and separated from the wayward and perverse... That the Manifestations of Divine justice, the Daysprings of heavenly grace, have when they appeared amongst men always been destitute of all earthly dominion and shorn of the means of worldly ascendancy should be attributed to this same principle of separation and distinction which animateth the Divine Purpose. Were the Eternal Essence to manifest all that is latent within Him, were He to shine in the plentitude of His glory, none would be found to question His power or repudiate His truth. Nay, all created things would be so dazzled and thunderstruck by the evidences of His light as to be reduced to utter nothingness. How, then, can the godly be differentiated under such circumstances from the froward? This principle hath operated in each of the previous Dispensations and been abundantly demonstrated.… It is for this reason that, in every age, when a new Manifestation hath appeared and a fresh revelation of God’s transcendent power was vouchsafed unto men, they that misbelieved in Him, deluded by the appearance of the peerless and everlasting Beauty in the garb of mortal men, have failed to recognize Him..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, XXIX (BH00958)
references	bahaiquotes.com/subject/manifestations-rejecting; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Rejection Manifestations; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Rejection Prophets; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/bahai-sacred-writings/3#680180761

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