the divinity of Christ

Taken from Adib Taherzadeh's "Revelation of Baha'u'llah," by way of explanation that Christ is not divine:

Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: 'I am God!' He verily speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes and names, the Revelation of God, His name and His attributes, are made manifest in the world... And were they to say: 'We are the servants of God,' this also is a manifest and indisputable fact. For they have been made manifest in the uttermost state of servitude, a servitude the like of which no man can possibly attain. (33)

So, to rephrase this, were a Prophet to say, "I am God," he speaks in the person of God; even Isaiah writes "I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats," telling not what he - Isaiah - has no pleasure in, but what God has no pleasure in. And were a Prophet to say, "I am a servant of God," he speaks in his own person.

(1) I agree that Prophets speak both in their own name and also in the name of God. But the situation with Christ is somewhat different, for here we have a man who says, "the Father and I are one." This sentence of Christ admits both distinction and unity. The compound subject admits the distinction between Christ and God the Father; therefore, since Christ admits the distinction between himself and the Father, he cannot be speaking in the person of God the Father. Yet he says that they "are one," that is, unity is predicated without qualification of God and Christ (but "one" has many senses, as many as "is" has). (2) However, when Christ appears after the Resurrection to the Apostles, he accepts without rebuke Thomas' worship: "My Lord and my God!" The statement is directed to Christ when Thomas finally sees and believes in His resurrection. To adore Christ as God, if he were not God, would be idolatry, yet Christ has no recorded condemnation or correction for Thomas' adoration (though he does for his sluggish faith). (3) To the question of whether or not he was greater than the Jewish patriarchs, Christ says "before Abraham was, I AM." If he had been speaking in the person of God the Father, his answer would have been irrelevant to the question at hand (since the Jews already knew God was greater than the patriarchs); and Christ's answer clearly claims divinity, naming himself with the name that God revealed as His own (cf. Ex 3:14). (4) Also, while Christ was on earth, he forgave sins -- not only of those who appeared to offend him, but who appeared not to have offended him (e.g. Mk 2:5, Lk 7:48). If Christ was not God, he would have been either mocking or fooling those to whom he said, "Your sins are forgiven." (5) And last, the Resurrection, which is unparalleled in history.