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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
(104:5)
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