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In Bahá ' í belief, creation has neither a beginning nor an end.

Instead the eschatology of other religions is viewed as symbolic.

In Bahá ' í belief, human time is marked by a series of progressive revelations in which successive messengers or prophets come from God.

The coming of each of these messengers is seen as the day of judgement to the adherents of the previous religion, who may choose to accept the new messenger and enter the ' heaven ' of belief, or denounce the new messenger and enter the ' hell ' of denial.

In this view the terms heaven and hell are seen as symbolic terms for the person's spiritual progress and their nearness to or distance from God.

In Bahá ' í belief, the coming of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, signals the fulfilment of previous eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity and other major religions.