- Each religious dispensation focused on spiritual and material concerns of priority importance at that stage in history, leaving other desirable advances to be dealt with in future Revelations.
- Example of Islam: Laws that would be draconian today unified warring tribes and launched the faith on five centuries of development whose speed and scope is unmatched before or since.
- Issues of crime and punishment are especially contentious in understanding society's evolution towards spiritual maturity. Historical perspective is essential.
- Each dispensation focuses on reformations that are considered immediately essential.
- Bahá'u'lláh exhorts us: "be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in..."
It is inadequate recognition of the station of God's Manifestations to see them as the founders of separate religions. They are the spiritual Educators of history. Previous
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