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The different religious communities have failed to unite in the past, because the adherents of each have regarded the Founder of their own community as the one supreme authority, and His law as the divine law. Any Prophet Who proclaimed a different message was, therefore, regarded as an enemy of the truth. The different sects of each community have separated for similar reasons. The adherents of each have accepted some subordinate authority and regarded some particular version or interpretation of the Founder's Message as the One True Faith, and all others as wrong.. Baha'u'llah.. teaches that all the Prophets were bearers of authentic messages from God; that each in His day gave the highest teachings that the people could then receive.. He calls on the adherents of each religion, not to deny.. their own Prophets, but to acknowledge the Divine Inspiration of all the other Prophets.. (121:2) A great stumbling block to many.. is the difference between the Revelations given by the different Prophets. What is commanded by one is forbidden by another; how then can both be right, how can both be claiming the Will of God? Surely the Truth is One and cannot change. Yes, the Absolute Truth is One and cannot change, but the Absolute Truth is infinitely beyond the present range of human understanding, and our conceptions of it must constantly change. Our earlier, imperfect ideas will be by the Grace of God replaced, as time goes on, by more and more adequate conceptions.
(122:2)
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