While it may often be the part of wisdom to approach
individuals or an audience from a standpoint of current knowledge, it should
never be overlooked that the Revelation of the Manifestation of God is the
standard for all knowledge, and scientific statements and theories, no matter how
close they may come to the eternal principles proclaimed by God's Messenger,
are in their very nature ephemeral and limited. Likewise, attempting to make
the Bahá'í Faith relevant to modern society is to incur the grave risk of
compromising the fundamental verities of our Faith in an effort to make it
conform to current theories and practices.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 21 July 1968 to a National Spiritual Assembly; The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Scholarship)
