Celebrating 1,000 views.
I Started my fireside blog on 26th of October
2012 and as of today, July 27th, 2014 it has had 1,000 views. My
more popular blog, the London World Peace Forum was started on June 6th
2011 and it would take a year to break the 1,000 views mark. Then, in July of
2012 it had 602 view followed by 1,996 in August that year. Currently, at time
of writing, it stands at 19,607 views.
I made a post on the Peace Forum blog on July 3rd, 2012 that got a lot of
attention. To date 2,047 people have viewed this post alone. I titled it “Addition
vs Subtraction. I compared the Teachings of God to Mathematics and likened the
rejection of God’s latest messenger to be the same as rejecting new concepts of
math. The student that has just learned to add is now being asked to subtract
and he wants nothing to do with it. There is an uprising among additionists as
they try to squash the influence of subtraction, but the subtractionists
explain that the full purpose of addition can never be realized without
subtraction. I have repeated the argument below for your convenience.
Addition vs Subtraction
One and One is Two
Addition vs Subtraction
Additions
argument:
I just love addition and I do not
want to see it corrupted by subtraction. We all know from the very beginning of
addition that one plus one is two. Now subtraction wants to confuse the issue
by saying one minus one is zero. Tell subtraction to get a life. What good is
zero? What do we do when there is nothing left? With addition we will always
have more. Whatever we have we can add to it and get more. There is power in
addition, but subtraction wants to take that away. If you love addition you
will not allow subtraction make a negative impression on you. And if
subtraction does take hold, what’s next? Multiplication, division or perhaps
even fractions; we don’t need these. Addition serves all our needs. It gives
and never takes away. Don’t let our pure methods of addition get corrupted with
these new age ideas.
Subtractions
argument:
Addition is good, but it doesn’t do
everything. Addition is getting, but if we keep adding and never taking away,
we will become bogged down in materialism.
Subtraction is giving and sharing. If I have ten apples and give five
away, I still have five. Addition can’t do that. Without subtraction there
would be no room for addition. Our storage facilities would be full and we
would starve to death. Subtraction is necessary for live. If we have ten apples
and we eat one, we have just subtracted. Yes, with addition we can get all we
need, but we can’t use it without subtraction. If the additionalist would
examine the principles of addition they would see it was just a first step leading
to subtraction and beyond. Yes it will progress to multiplication, division and
even fractions, but this is a fulfilment of addition and not a corruption.
It is plain to see that the Divine
Teachers teach us what we are capable of learning at the time, but if we reject
the Divine teachings of the present because they introduce new ideas that we
are not familiar with and were not taught in the past, we lose big time. The
new teachings do not negate the teachings of the past, but they add to it. It
is not a denial of the past but a fulfillment of it. When we close our minds to
the new ideas, we become handicap and the old ideas will no longer work for us.
If we don’t learn to subtract, addition will lose its power and be of no use to
us.
Moses brought the revelation of God
to humanity in His age. He brought social and spiritual laws to help us live.
Among them was the law of the Sabbath that was designed to give us humans a
break and a day of rest. By the time Jesus appeared the followers of Moses had
interpreted the law in such a manner that people became slaves to the law.
Moses led the people out of slavery and Jesus found them in a new kind of
slavery.
When Jesus introduced new spiritual
and social concepts, He was rejected by the majority of the followers of Moses.
When He explained that the law was made for man and not that man was made for
the law, He was accused of blasphemy and corrupting the law of God. Have the
followers of Jesus suffered for accepting His teachings? No, they went on to
found great governments and establish kingdoms on earth. They did not reject
the teachings of Moses, but added the teachings of Jesus to them. Many more
became acquainted with the teachings of Moses through the efforts of the
Christians and there was no harm whatsoever done to the law of Moses.
Again humanity progressed and became
in need of new ideas and teachings. The people of the Arabic area were nomadic
tribes living in a constant state of war. God sent Mohammad and the tribes were
united into a great nation. The Muslim universities became renown over the
world and even many Christian leaders were educated in these Muslim
institutions. If you doubt the advantages of these new ideas, try balancing
your bank account or filing your tax return using roman numerals. Our present
number system and mathematics is an outcome of Muslim educational techniques.
Over the last few hundred years we
have seen the world increasingly being ravaged by war. Each nation wanting to
protect its way of life would rise up against anyone perceived to be a threat
to its ideals. Politics, religion and
materialism all contributed to the greed of expanding territories and defeating
the enemy. Christ’s injunction to “love your enemies” was forgotten as even one
Christian ideology would rise up in war against another. At such a time, God’s
twin Messengers, the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh came with a message of love and
unity. Bahá’u’lláh annulled the rule of
the sword and replaced it with the power of utterance. He says;
Know thou that We have annulled the
rule of the sword, as an aid to Our Cause, and substituted for it the power
born of the utterance of men. Thus have We irrevocably decreed, by virtue of
Our grace. Say: O people! Sow not the seeds of discord among men, and refrain
from contending with your neighbor, for your Lord hath committed the world and
the cities thereof to the care of the kings of the earth, and made them the
emblems of His own power, by virtue of the sovereignty He hath chosen to bestow
upon them. He hath refused to reserve for Himself any share whatever of this
world's dominion. To this He Who is Himself the Eternal Truth will testify. The
things He hath reserved for Himself are the cities of men's hearts, that He may
cleanse them from all earthly defilements, and enable them to draw nigh unto
the hallowed Spot which the hands of the infidel can never profane. Open, O
people, the city of the human heart with the key of your utterance. Thus have
We, according to a pre-ordained measure, prescribed unto you your duty.
(Baha'u'llah,
Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 303, 304)
We see in the past how, despite
insurmountable odds and extreme opposition, the law of God was established and
human society was advanced. We also see that, without these new ideas, human
society was doomed and its destruction would have resulted. Now, more than ever
we see the destruction of the human race looming on one side while the
revelation of God is rushing in on the other to save it. The world is waiting
for the life giving Message that has been entrusted to those faithful followers
who have recognized it. The veils must be rent asunder, the clouds dispersed
and the hearts unlocked so the revelation of Glory may shine with its life
giving rays on all of humanity.
Yes; many problems can be solved with
addition, but we need subtraction, multiplication, division and many other
aspects to solve all the problems. Even so, the past revelation of God was good
and sufficient to solve the problems of the Day in which it was revealed, to
solve the problems of today we need the current revelation of God and we must
learn the rules and conditions of the future world order which is currently
being established.
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