Re: No ambiguity

Kent Johnson wrote:
Hi Doug,

I am not sure you understand the concepts we are discussing here Doug. The issue is whether or not religious truth is absolute (like whatever the Writings say is absolutely truth) or if religious truth is relative (based upon human frailties and other unnamed exigencies and issues).


The relativity of the Word of God has to do with the capacity of mankind to understand at the particular time of his/her development. The capacity of understanding of each soul is different on account of the relative purity of each soul. The *Word* is not crippled it is veiled.

"O my brother! A divine Mine only can yield the gems of divine knowledge, and the fragrance of the mystic Flower can be inhaled only in the ideal Garden, and the lilies of ancient wisdom can blossom nowhere except in the city of a stainless heart. "In a rich soil, its plants spring forth abundantly by permission of its Lord, and in that soil which is bad, they spring forth but scantily."[3] [3 Qur'án 7:57.]

"Inasmuch as it hath been clearly shown that only those who are initiated into the divine mysteries can comprehend the melodies uttered by the Bird of Heaven, it is therefore incumbent upon every one to seek enlightenment from the illumined in heart and from the Treasuries of divine mysteries 192 regarding the intricacies of God's Faith and the abstruse allusions in the utterances of the Day-springs of Holiness. Thus will these mysteries be unravelled, not by the aid of acquired learning, but solely through the assistance of God and the outpourings of His grace. "Ask ye, therefore, of them that have the custody of the Scriptures, if ye know it not."[1][1 Qur'án 16:43.]

(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 190)

Regards,

Albert

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