Fulfillment of the Law
(Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not to abolish it)
[edit]“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
(Bahá'u'lláh promulgates the same teachings as in the past)
[edit]“...this is the changeless Faith of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the future,”
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings, p. 136)
Objections have been raised in each Age that no Prophet should abolish the Law of divine Revelation
[edit]"After the denials and denunciations which they uttered, and unto which We have referred, they protested saying: "No independent Prophet, according to our Scriptures, should arise after Moses and Jesus to abolish the Law of divine Revelation. Nay, he that is to be made manifest must needs fulfil the Law." Thereupon this verse, indicative of all the divine themes, and testifying to the truth that the flow of the grace of the All-Merciful can never cease, was revealed: "And Joseph came to you aforetime with clear tokens, but ye ceased not to doubt of the message with which He came to you, until, when He died, ye said, `God will by no means raise up a Messenger after Him.' Thus God misleadeth him who is the transgressor the doubter."[1 Qur'án 40:34.] Therefore, understand from this verse and know of a certainty that the people in every age, clinging to a verse of the Book, have uttered such vain and absurd sayings, contending that no Prophet should again be made manifest to the world. Even as the Christian divines who, holding fast to the verse of the Gospel to which We have already referred, have sought to explain that the law of the Gospel shall at no time be annulled, and that no independent Prophet shall again be made manifest, unless He confirmeth the law of the Gospel. Most of the people have become afflicted with the same spiritual disease."
- (Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Íqán, par. 236)