An article in the December 17 issue of the Wrangell Sentinel sends Christmas greetings to all from the Baha’i community of Wrangell. The article talks about the perfections of Christ which shone like the Sun -that luminous orb in the sky that keeps returning every day to bring us that light and heat that all life on earth depends on. 
Just as we can speak of the sun returning every day, we can speak of a flower from last year returning again to enrich our lives with freshness and beauty this year.
The Baha’i writings speak of the Bible as a spiritual book that uses spiritual language and concepts to guide man’s footsteps along the spiritual path. But the problems confronting us today, whether as individuals or on at the international level, are not all the same as the problems of 2,000 years ago. As this article mentions, mankind benefits from a Spiritual Teacher like Christ and those teachings are the real cause of man’s progress. If we examine the teachings of these Divine Teachers and become sufficiently enamored of their light to practice them in our lives, then we can play an active role in the great process of man’s advancement:
“All men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization”
–Baha’u’llah
But Christ Himself was like a lamp and when we investigate His Teachings we see that there was light emanating from this Lamp. The Baha’i Sacred Writings maintain that we must be lovers of this light because it is this light that returns from age to age. This is why Christ said to those who did not recognize him “…if you had known Moses you would know Me” …this is a reference to the light that had emanated from Moses and which had returned in Christ. But some of the people of those times were lovers of the Lamp Moses and so they did not recognize that the light had returned in Jesus.
Like the sun that returns in the morning after dark night, this great Light returns in times of spiritual darkness in the world. This is why Christ said “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” The meaning is that these great Teachers do not come to the world when they are not needed. They come to the world to bring light in a time of spiritual darkness so that men who see a problem in their own actions, centuries after the time of a former Teacher, can recognize that the light from an All-Loving Creator has returned to show the solutions to the problems of a new day.
The article is here:
https://www.wrangellsentinel.com/stories/celebrate-christ-and-all-his-teachings-this-season,43289
