>Baha'u'llah doesn't use the word 'saved' that passage you cited.
Okay, but doesn't it seem obvious that we can infer that meaning?
Dear David,
It is a misleading appropriation of Christian vocabulary. Baha'is are
not
obsessed with individual salvation the way Christians are and we
shouldn't
project it into our Writings except when it is explicitly there as in
Abdu'l-Baha's Tablet regarding salvation and the Covenant.
"I'm just interested in the Baha'i view on why a person does not
believe."
Well, here's a reason Baha'u'llah gave:
We have admonished all the loved ones of God to take heed lest the hem
of
Our sacred vesture be smirched with the mire of unlawful deeds, or be
stained with the dust of reprehensible conduct. We have, moreover,
exhorted them to fix their gaze upon whatsoever hath been revealed in
Our
Tablets. Had their inner ears been attentive to the Divine counsels
which
have shone forth from the Day Spring of the Pen of the All-Merciful,
and
hearkened unto His Voice, most of the peoples of the earth would have
by
now been adorned with the ornament of His guidance.
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 240)
That may not be the only reason someone is not a Baha'i, but it is the
only one we have any control over, so let's concentrate on this.
warmest, Susan
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