>>This, according to the Bahá'í Faith, is part of the story. According to the first paragraph of the Most Holy Book, which I will paraphrase in part here, God's servants have two twin duties. The first one is to recognize God's Messenger. The second is to "observe every ordinance of Him Who is the Desire of the world. These twin duties are inseparable. Neither is acceptable without the other."
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>God just tells you to do certain things and perform certain rituals.
Yes.
> Other then that it's all up to you, the believer, to perform?
Of course it is up to me. Just as a person can disobey its parents, or other established authority, it is quite possible to disobey God's commands, and pressumably almost everybody does disobey Him to some extent.
>The believer is doing all the work, in that he is out there busting his butt "earning" his keep. So why do you need God, except to dish out work?
What do you mean, to dish out work?
> And how do you know that you're good enough?
I don't. Nobody knows his own fate, and it is ultimately up to God to decide whether somebody has been "good enough", whether his good deeds, his belief, etc., are accepted.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
