It has… become commonplace to regard religion as the product
of human striving after truth, as the outcome of certain climates of thought
and conditions of society. This has been taken, by many non-Bahá'í thinkers, to
the extreme of denying altogether the reality or even the possibility of a
specific revelation of the Will of God to mankind through a human mouthpiece. A
Bahá'í who has studied the Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh, who has accepted His claim
to be the Manifestation of God for this Age, and who has seen His Teachings at
work in his daily life, knows as the result of rational investigation,
confirmed by actual experience, that true religion, far from being the product
solely of human striving after truth, is the fruit of the creative Word of God
which, with divine power, transforms human thought and action.
(Memorandum from
the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice on Baha’i
Scholarship, accompanied by a letter written on behalf of the Universal House
of Justice dated 3 January 1979; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice
1963-1986’)
