God is unchanging perfection.

 

238. God is unchanging. One of the things we find in the religions of God is that God is pure perfection, so He is unchanging, eternally perfect: God is pure perfection He is not subject to the changes and chances of this phenomenal existence. He is always, has always been and always will be in the same state of perfection He has always been.  Christianity: Hebrews 1:10 “And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:” Hebrews 1:11 “They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;” Hebrews 1:12 “And as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same,”  Judaism: Psalms 102:26 “They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed: But Thou art the same,” Malachi 3:6 “For I am The LORD, I change not;”

 ISLAM: “Allah (God) said, ‘The Word that comes from Me does not change,” “Verily, God will not change.”

(The Qur’an Surah 13 and Hadith, Bukhari Vol 9)

Islam: 1. “He is Allah, the One and Only; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;”

(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 112)

 ZOROASTRIANISM: 15. “He who is the best (of all) Ahura Mazda (God), pronounced the Ahuna-vairya, and as He pronounced it as the best, so He caused it to have its effect, (He, ever) the same, (as He is).” “O Ahura, is ever the same.”

(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Yasnas 19 and 31)

 HINDUISM: “The One Unborn, Unending: Unchanging and Unblending (God)! With might and majesty, past thought, past seeing!”

(Hindu, Bhagavad Gita (Edwin Arnold tr) chapter 11)

 Hinduism: “That is the ether within the heart. That ether in the heart (as Brahma, God) is omnipresent and unchanging.”

(Hindu, Upanishads vol. 1, Khandogya-Upanishad Part 2)

 BUDDHISM: “There is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed (Brahma, God),” (therefore there is an Eternal One, not subject to change, and will thus eternally remain the same). “Give ear then, for the Immortal is found.”

((The Eightfold Path), Buddha, the Word (The Eightfold Path))

 SABEANISM: “Thou art immeasurable, infinite and everlasting. Thou art the Father” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 75)

Sabeanism: “Thou art enduring, (unchanging) First Life before Whom no being had existence, Unearthly One from worlds of light, Supreme Being that art above all works, above the Ancient Radiance and above the First Light; above the life which emanated from Life and above the Truth which was of old in the Beginning!” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 43)

 BABI RELIGION: “Every other perfection is as naught in face of His consummate perfection, and every other display of might is as nothing before His absolute might.” “Glorified be God, His Creator, the Lord of everlasting sovereignty.”

(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, pp. 54 and 156)

BAHA’I FAITH: “The fundamental basis of the revealed religion of God is immutable, unchanging throughout the centuries, not subject to the varying conditions of the human world.”

(Bahá’í Faith, Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’i World Faith – Abdu’l-Baha Section, p. 275)

Baha’i Faith: “Thou art verily the Mighty, the Exalted, the Powerful, He Who alone, in the heavens and on the earth, abideth unchanged. There is none other God save Thee, the Lord of manifest tokens and signs.”

(Bahá’í Faith, Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 25)

 BABI RELIGION: “IN the Name of God, the Most Exalted, the Most Holy. All praise and glory befitteth the sacred and glorious court of the sovereign Lord, Who from everlasting hath dwelt, and unto everlasting will continue to dwell within the mystery of His Own divine Essence, Who from time immemorial hath abided and will forever continue to abide within His transcendent eternity, exalted above the reach and ken of all created beings. The sign of His matchless Revelation as created by Him and imprinted upon the realities of all beings, is none other but their powerlessness to know Him. The light He hath shed upon all things is none but the splendour of His Own Self. He Himself hath at all times been immeasurably exalted above any association with His creatures. He hath fashioned the entire creation in such wise that all beings may, by virtue of their innate powers, bear witness before God on the Day of Resurrection that He hath no peer or equal and is sanctified from any likeness, similitude or comparison. He hath been and will ever be one and incomparable in the transcendent glory of His divine being and He hath ever been indescribably mighty in the sublimity of His sovereign Lordship. No one hath ever been able befittingly to recognize Him nor will any man succeed at any time in comprehending Him as is truly meet and seemly, for any reality to which the term ‘being’ is applicable hath been created by the sovereign Will of the Almighty, Who hath shed upon it the radiance of His Own Self, shining forth from His most august station. He hath moreover deposited within the realities of all created things the emblem of His recognition, that everyone may know of a certainty that He is the Beginning and the End, the Manifest and the Hidden, the Maker and the Sustainer, the Omnipotent and the All-Knowing, the One Who heareth and perceiveth all things, He Who is invincible in His power and standeth supreme in His Own identity, He Who quickeneth and causeth to die, the All-Powerful, the Inaccessible, the Most Exalted, the Most High. Every revelation of His divine Essence betokens the sublimity of His glory, the loftiness of His sanctity, the inaccessible height of His oneness and the exaltation of His majesty and power. His beginning hath had no beginning other than His Own firstness and His end knoweth no end save His Own lastness. THE revelation of the Divine Reality hath everlastingly been identical with its concealment and its concealment identical with its revelation.”

(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 110)

BAHA’I FAITH: “This phenomenal world will not remain in an unchanging condition even for a short while. Second after second it undergoes change and transformation. Every foundation will finally become collapsed; every glory and splendor will at last vanish and disappear, but the Kingdom of God is eternal and the heavenly sovereignty and majesty will stand firm, everlasting.”

(Bahá’í Faith, Abdu’l-Baha, Tablets of the Divine Plan, p. 79)

Baha’i Faith:  “God is immutable, unchanging throughout the centuries, not subject to the varying conditions of the human world.”

(Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’i World Faith – Abdu’l-Baha Section, p. 275)

 BABI RELIGION: “His singleness, is empowered by His eternal dominion and is invested with authority through His everlasting sovereignty.” “From everlasting He hath been the Source of indomitable strength and shall remain so unto everlasting.”

(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 168)