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Baha'u'llah continually makes plain that "whatever in days gone by hath been the cause of the denial and opposition of those people hath now led to the perversity of the people of this age." and has caused them to dispute "with vain words".. In the past, as today, the divines have not grasped that God has manifested Himself "in conformity with that which He Himself hath purposed, and not according to the desires and expectations of men." Hence Baha'u'llah's admonition: "Say: O leaders of religion! Weigh not the Book of God with such standards and sciences as are current amongst you, for the Book itself is the unerring balance established amongst men." "Great is the blessedness," is Baha'u'llah's promise, "of that divine that hath not allowed knowledge to become a veil between him and the One Who is the Object of all knowledge, and who, when the Self-Subsisting appeared, hath turned with a beaming face towards him. He, in truth, is numbered with the learned." And those divines "who are truly adorned with the ornament of knowledge... are, verily, as a head to the body of the world, and a eyes to the nations."
(106:2)
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