Progressive revelation in the religions

In Hinduism

“...Whenever there is a decline in righteousness and a rise of unrighteousness ... then I send forth Myself, for the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked and for the establishment of righteousness. I come into being from age to age...”

(Bhagavad Gita 4:7-8)

In Buddhism

“I am not the first Buddha who came upon the earth nor shall I be the last ... in due time another Buddha will arise.”

(Mahaparinibbana Sutta)

In Judaism

“But thou, O Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, and from everlasting.”

(Micah 5:2)

In Christianity

“Think not that have come to destroy the law of the prophets: I have come not to destroy but to fulfill.”

(Matthew 5:17)

In Islám

“Verily We have sent Thee with the truth. A comforter and a warner, and there is not a people but a warner hath not passed among them.”

(Qur'án 35:22)

In the Bahá’í Faith

“Indeed no religion shall We ever inaugurate unless it be renewed in the days to come.”

(The Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb, p. 159)

See also

• Progressive revelation