Why did Christ come into this world? People think He came in
order that they might believe in Him as the Word of God, or the Son of God.
"He came," they say, "to redeem us through His blood."
Christ was not seeking after fame. He came that He might
educate the world of humanity and illumine the world of reality. He sacrificed
His life for the realization of this fact. This is reality. Every fair and just
man accepts this. Now is it befitting that we lay aside the refining of
character and engage in war, or abandon the second birth and occupy ourselves
with enmity? Christ came to release the people from the promptings of the lower
nature, to make them angelic. For this thing He accepted all calamities.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Star of the West [The Baha’i Magazine], vol. 22, no. 10, December
1931)
