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It is likely that the Pharisees, in rejecting Jesus by appeal to Scripture, had worse grounds and were less convinced of their rightness than the Christian and Islamic priests when they pronounce judgment on Baha'u'llah? The Jewish objections to Christ in the Christian era almost two thousand years ago were based-- like Christian objections to Baha'u'llah-- on scripture. Yet these apparently compelling theological grounds were false, because God had revealed Himself otherwise than men expected. Had (the theologian).. been a Jew at the time of Jesus, is he sure that he would have been on the side of the "small handful," the "tiny band" (his terms for the Baha'i communities), of the despised and obscure sect of Christians, and not on the side of those who "occupied the seats of authority and learning?" (Baha'u'llah).
(107:2)
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