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The Baha'is, likewise of course, believe that the Bible is the Word of God, and that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Savior of the world, yet Baha'is are not Christians. They have accepted Baha'u'llah as the Promised One of all ages, Christ Returned in the glory of the Father, and He has founded a new religion. Today, in the Second Coming - this time for the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth - Baha'u'llah's teachings, revealed over a period of forty years, are to Baha'is the repository of those priceless gems of holiness that will transform the world into an earthly paradise. But to Christians, Baha'is may appear unfaithful to the Holy Scriptures, despite the fact that Baha'is believe those scriptures have been fulfilled, and could only have been fulfilled, through the Second Coming of Christ (104:4) Thus, everything depends on whether a person views and interprets the Second Coming of Christ with the outer eye or the inner eye, and, of course, Baha'is and Christians will disagree with one another over who is employing the outer eye and who the inner eye in their respective interpretations of the Second Coming , even as Christian persons and Jewish persons disagree over the First Coming of Christ. The patterns involved are strikingly similar in both instances (the First and Second Comings), and curiously enough as well, so also are the resistances and roadblocks that human beings employ to deny, diminish, and avoid the meaning and import of Divine Revelation - both for themselves as individuals and for their societies and civilizations. Human beings, after all, have been notoriously late in acknowledging and appreciating the immense bounties conferred upon them by a succession of Divine Revealers in the past; why then should we expect matters to be any different in our place and time in history
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