AboutRoss Campbell Expertise I am able to provide answers to questions about the Administration of the New World Order which the Baha`i Faith heralds; why that administration is different than any previous government in history, and why it cannot and will not fail but rather will fully accomplish all that is written in Holy Prophecy.
Experience Experience in the area: I have been examining the Baha'i Faith for more than 6 years. I have visited more than 300 different Christian churches during the past 6+ years.
Expert: Ross Campbell Date: 11/8/2007 Subject: Your Beliefs
Question i am currently working on a paper, for a class i am taking, i was wondering if you could answer some questions for me.
1. How would you as a Bahai believer describe judgement of our sins?
2.Can you have a personal relationship with God?
3. What is the means for Salvation
4. What must one do to receive the salvation if any?
5. Is the life after death, do you redceive anything after dying?
Thank You for taking time to answer my questions.
Answer Dear Jessica,
Thank you for your questions. I am preparing to take my family into the wilderness today, so this is a brief response to your questions. I will return next Tuesday. You are welcome to write me at my private e-mail: rosscampbell@shaw.ca.
Concerning sin, you are probably aware that the original word for sin literally means 'to miss the mark'. To sin, then, actually means to fail by some degree to accomplish God's Will for us. I have visited more than 400 different Christian churches during the past 9 years, and it is my observation that the greatest sin of church members is apathy. They are also all practicing faith by proxy, that is, trusting paid professional clergymen to exercise faith in their behalf, in their stead, providing them all of their spiritual nutrition, rather than pursuing independent investigation of Truth. The Bible writer Paul never once paid anyone to preach to him neither accepted wages to preach to others. His Holiness the Christ said: "You received free, give free."
To neglect to obey His Words is sin. The system of paid professional clergypersons is sin. It did not exist 2000 years ago amongst early Christian believers.
Judgment for sins includes failure to receive the blessings which accrue from obedience to our Lord. To share specifically in the accomplishment of God's Purpose is a great honor and privilege. Those who fail to share in the fulfillment of His Plan deprive themselves of the joy and fellowship experienced by those who actually do share in doing His Will. Those who rejected His Holiness the Christ did not share with the apostles and Early Christian disciples the certitude that they were specifically sharing in God's Plan.
The Faithful disciples did share that joy and fellowship.
There will be joy also in the next world and similar fellowship amongst those who obeyed the Lord's Instructions in this world.
It is sin to miss that opportunity.
Concerning your question about a personal relationship with God, Bahá'ís believe that our relationship with God depends upon our relationship with His Holy Manifestations. His Holiness the Christ was a Holy Manifestation of God. They explain God for us and we cannot know more about God than what They teach us. Also, Their Instructions are God's Instructions for us. To disobey Them is to disobey Almighty God. Holy Manifestations of God mirror His qualities. The Mirrors are different Ones, however they reflect the same qualities, and God considers them as One. For an illustration, if you were in a deep cave and someone placed a large mirror to cover the entrance of the cave so that it reflected the sun's rays into the cave, you would say, 'there's the sun'. If someone smashed the mirror, you would say, 'the sun has gone'. If someone else brought a second mirror, you would say, 'the sun is back'. The sun would be the same, however the mirrors are different.
We believe that the New Name of the Lord Christ, which New Name He referred to in the prophetic Bible Book, Revelation, is in English, The Glory of God. In Arabic it is Bahá'u'lláhᨮ We believe that He fulfills the return of His Holiness the Christ.
When asked by Jews how to do the works of God, His Holiness the Christ responded:
"This is the work of God, that you exercise faith in Him Whom that One sent forth." (John 6:29)
At them moment that He was speaking, He was "Him Whom that One sent forth"
Today, "Him Whom that One sent forth" is Bahá'u'lláhᨮ
To obey Him brings eternal blessings. To disobey Him, to neglect His Instructions, is sin.
The means of salvation is obedience to Him.
What must one do to receive salvation. We must obey Him, and heed all of His Counsel.
The Words quoted by Paul and recorded at 1Corinthians 2:9 continue to obtain now, and eternally, in the next world when humans pass from this world:
"Eye has not seen and ear has not heard, neither have there been conceived in the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
