Baha'i Faith - Why I Became Baha'i

I can best summarize why I became a Baha'i in one sentence:

The return of Jesus Christ Himself, just as Daniel, Isiah and St John/Revelations predicted so many thousands of years ago. And while I do know the Biblical prophecies and how to justify it there is something else that goes with such a decision that cannot be expressed in words anymore than words could ever have captured the true essence of Jesus: you feel it is right in your very soul.

And heck, what isn't there to absolutely love about this Faith? Extreme diversity of every race, creed, economic status, you name it. I know a lot of you people out there in the blogosphere rail against anything that is organized or systematized at all and prefer to say "I don't need any of that between me and God" but for me that is a nonsense argument - show me one thing in life at all that works well without any planning or structure. Seriously, name one! No? That is because nothing in life works at all without some type of organization - your business, your studies, doing your laundry, everything requires at least some level of organization and in some cases a good degree of organization and I think, to be frank, Religion is something totally beyond a stream of consciousness or fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants "Han Solo" approach. We are talking about your eternal, everlasting relationship with the Almighty here AND, hopefully, building of a community that can sustain you through not just your adolescent or young adult inquiries into existence but also through births, deaths, marriage, support during those later times in your life when you won't be so sure of what it is you know for sure right now, all of it. In that regard the Baha'i Faith is light years beyond my experience with other Faith communities - I do not name them here because unlike many on the internet who cannot behave themselves, I am not interested in criticising or negativity towards anything, I am only interested in promoting what I think is by far the best thing ever.

Should any of this convince you? Heck no! You my friend need to go on the internet and use the seeker reponse system at http://www.bahai.us - find out for yourself if this marvelous Religion is for you.

Oh, and my advice to you is this: ignore anyone around you who negates your seeking or tells you to ignore or steer clear of 'those Baha'is' because someday, and maybe someday soon, they will all be gone either moved out of town or dead - yes, that will happen to all of us - and this will leave you hanging out there having still not made any progress in satisfying that persistent spark, that ever present needle in your consciousness telling you something truly profound is waiting out here for you if only you could find it. Trust me my friend, you can find nothing more profound than this Faith which knows no limits to mystical debth, spiritual power, and practical planning to re-organize and re-juvenate all of humanity for the next thousand years. All you need to do is 'click'!