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Baha'is understand the return of Christ as a return of those qualities which make Him divine and through which everlasting life and salvation is bestowed upon the world. These same qualities have appeared in Baha'u'llah, through whose love of God, innate knowledge, unearthly power, and lifetime of sacrifice for God, they are made manifest (95:6) Although we have assumed, understandably, that Jesus Himself would come down from the sky upon the clouds, it seems, that just as the return of Elijah was fulfilled by a different individual with a different name though with the same qualities (namely, John the Baptist), so also the Return of Christ in our time has been fulfilled by a different individual with a different name though with the same qualities, namely by the individual whom history and prophecy alike proclaim as Baha'u'llah, the Glory of God
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