Word: prophets
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Baha'u'llah claims--and Baha'is believe--that he is the Messenger or Prophet of God for this age. The Essence of God is unknowable, but his will is made known periodically through his chosen "Manifestations". Abraham, Moses, Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ, Muhammad, The Bab, and Baha'u'llah are the ones most known about in history. Baha'u'llah also claims to be the Promised One, fulfilling the prophecy of all past religions and inaugurating a new era of civilization concerned with developing mankind to spiritual maturity. In a thousand years, according to his writings, there will...
...carried by the relationship between them. Lloyd Webber and Rice admit to a feeling that history and the Scriptures have been unkind to Judas. If Christ was really divine, after all, then Judas was merely the instrument of his will. And if Christ was merely a great teacher and prophet who in mid-career fell prey to delusions of grandeur and a persecution complex, then Judas ?those 30 pieces of silver aside?was merely doing what he thought was right. The latter is the view, anyway, suggested by Jesus Christ Superstar. From the beginning, Judas worries about Jesus...
...slowly becomes aware of the nature of the Marion-Burgess relationship, the stocky, good-natured tenant of Black Farm assumes a father-like role. Burgess is no calloused, warted prophet of the Lawrentian school of peasants, but a strong, understanding worker. He stands in the film for the natural qualities smothered by Hall mores, but to him these are merely the elements of a commonly accessible good life. His tragedy is his inarticulateness, which causes him to lose Leo's trust before he can explain to him the meaning of adulthood...
...develop an increasingly elaborate exchange of goods and services. Thus both England and Germany prosper even though they have a population density greater than that of India. And the Japanese are demonstrating that the world's most thickly inhabited nation may also become its richest. Looking ahead, Professional Prophet Herman Kahn optimistically foresees a world population that will double by 2000 but a world economy that will grow fivefold...
...cogent point to President Kennedy "in his amusingly ironic way" and then apologized for a gloomy prediction, Kennedy replies: "John, you can't scold us often enough, and as far as I'm concerned, you are both an Aristotle and a Jeremiah, a polymath and a prophet...