Testimonies

MuddQT: The comments on this post are testimonies of religious Wireclub members.

Zanjan: I bear witness to these three truths:

The Oneness of God
The Onenesss of religion
The Oneness of mankind

I testify that "our purpose on earth is to know and love God". I've found that every path is "a door leading to the knowledge of God", "the last and highest end of all learning".

While these truths were conveyed and confirmed by Baha'u'llah, Prophet-Founder of the Baha'i Faith, I discovered them on my own because a great Light had come into the world and I saw it. Unlike others, it didn't hurt my eyes so I didn't look away - I flew into its warmth and have never looked back.

Furthermore, I bear witness from personal experience that there is a next world we pass into when our bodies die. At that time, all the veils drop - each soul will discover that everything the Prophets of God have told mankind is true. If we haven't already realized our own powerlessness and God's might, we'll each be shown it then.

elsafer: Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[b]? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God.
2 Corinthians 6v14-16

chronology: Well Zan, most people have Muhamad, or Jesus, or Vishna, or Buddha, But you have all bases covered and Jesus, Muhamad, Buddha, and Vishnu all on your team.

A Guy was once asked what religion he thought was genuine, he said 'I follow all of them, that way I can't make a mistake' .

elsafer: 24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
Matthew6v24

Zanjan: Chron, I wrote my own testimony - I didn't copy the testimony of others. I say it's my own because I knew these things before I became religious. Nobody told me; nobody taught me. Baha'u'llah confirmed them -> in the words I quoted.

Does not one join a religion because they hold its truths to be self-evident? Whereas, a testimony is witness of things you've seen for yourself. Would a court accept hearsay from you?

All the other words in MY testimony are my solely own. It's easy to write your own words when you understand the Unity of God. ( all the bases, all the struts that hold up the roof of religion)

By the way, you can't follow all of the Messengers of God but you can still believe in who They said They were, and in the truths They uttered.

chronology: Interesting Zan.

Empty_Everest: As a religious Jew, I know that my practices are only for Jews not for others, how everyone connects is their choice and I'm forbidden to make any judgment upon it.
To me spiritual public testimonials are unnecessary and forbidden. How I experience my Creator is between Him and I. It is forbidden to me because G-d is an experience which is perceived subjective, independent, hidden, intimate, individual, and intangible to others. The experience was given to me and not to others. I must treasure it, saviour it, admire it as the greatest adornment I've ever possessed.

Why intangible?
Because it's absolutely unmeasurable to others, except myself and to those in the same or above spiritual level than me, then, it becomes a harmonious, tangible, balance between the spiritual collective experience because there're meetings of the minds.

However, I CAN testify about my relationship between my Creator and I ONLY by MY actions NOT words to the rest of the world.

I'm testifying about my hidden spiritual relationship with G-d by HOW I perceive AND react towards His creation (the WHOLE of humanity). My testimony is internally reactive actions, such as thoughts, perceptions, emotions; and externally reactive actions, in a few words... how I relate and perceive my environment, circumstances, and human experiences I'm testifying if my Creator is loving and caring or is an evil Giver to me and humanity.

ACTIONS are the spiritual testimonies, beautiful words of expressing what G-d means to me publicly are useless and meaningless. I CAN'T love G-d if I don't love His creation FIRST.

If I'm unable to to justify AND accept other's perceptions and actions it's because I love myself more than I love my G-d. This is where the logical thinking of the spiritual ethical guidelines of my sages come to hunt me...

Here comes at play, one cannot serve two masters.
Shemot - Exodus - Chapter 34:14
For you shall not prostrate yourself before another god, because the Lord, Whose Name is "Jealous One," is a jealous God. ידכִּ֛י לֹ֥א תִשְׁתַּֽחֲוֶ֖ה לְאֵ֣ל אַחֵ֑ר כִּ֤י יְהֹוָה֙ קַנָּ֣א שְׁמ֔וֹ אֵ֥ל קַנָּ֖א הֽוּא:

Vayikra - Leviticus 19:14,18
You shall not curse a deaf person. You shall not place a stumbling block before a blind person, and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord.
ידלֹֽא־תְקַלֵּ֣ל חֵרֵ֔שׁ וְלִפְנֵ֣י עִוֵּ֔ר לֹ֥א תִתֵּ֖ן מִכְשֹׁ֑ל וְיָרֵ֥אתָ מֵֽאֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֹֽה:

You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
יחלֹֽא־תִקֹּ֤ם וְלֹֽא־תִטֹּר֙ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י עַמֶּ֔ךָ וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵֽעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֹֽה:

Zanjan: Side note: Last Will and Testimony: Most executors don't realize that all beneficiaries must be supplied with a copy of the Will. I've seen a few but they weren't easy to get. None had a testimony - it's as if they had no idea what that was.

Such are they who've lived their lives in vain, having nothing to pass on except money or objects.

Empty_Everest: Yes poetry, that reminds me of the calling of The Blowing of Shofar. It is a very conscious call of the duty we have as keepers of one another...

Empty_Everest: The Shofar's significance of spiritual ethical consciousness and the sound combined, has the attribute to moves the deepest part of the hiding self.