Yes. According to the Bahá'í teachings, Jesus Christ is a Manifestation of God. Shoghi Effendi elaborates ("The Promised Day is Come", p. 109):

"As to the position of Christianity, let it be stated without any hesitation or equivocation that its divine origin is unconditionally acknowledged, that the Sonship and Divinity of Jesus Christ are fearlessly asserted, that the divine inspiration of the Gospel is fully recognised, that the reality of the mystery of the Immaculacy of the Virgin Mary is confessed, and the primacy of Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, is upheld and defended. The Founder of the Christian Faith is designated by Bahá'u'lláh as the "Spirit of God," is proclaimed as the One Who "appeared out of the breath of the Holy Ghost," and is even extolled as the "Essence of the Spirit." His mother is described as "that veiled and immortal, that most beauteous, countenance," and the station of her Son eulogised as a "station which hath been exalted above the imaginings of all that dwell on earth," whilst Peter is recognised as one whom God has caused "the mysteries of wisdom and of utterance to flow out of his mouth." "Know thou," Bahá'u'lláh has moreover testified, "that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping. By sacrificing Himself, however, a fresh capacity was infused into all created things. Its evidences, as witnessed in all the peoples of the earth, are now manifest before thee. The deepest wisdom which the sages have uttered, the profoundest learning which any mind hath unfolded, the arts which the ablest hands have produced, the influence exerted by the most potent of rulers, are but manifestations of the quickening power released by His transcendent, His all-pervasive and resplendent Spirit. We testify that when He came into the world, He shed the splendour of His glory upon all created things. Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance. Through Him the unchaste and wayward were healed. Through His power, born of Almighty God, the eyes of the blind were opened and the soul of the sinner sanctified.... He it is Who purified the world. Blessed is the man who, with a face beaming with light, hath turned towards Him." Shoghi Effendi elaborates that "wholehearted and unqualified acceptance... of the divine origin of both Islám and Christianity, of the Prophetic functions of both Muhammad and Jesus Christ, of the legitimacy of the institution of the Imámate, and of the primacy of St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles... are the central, the solid, the incontrovertible principles that constitute the bedrock of Bahá'í belief, which the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh is proud to acknowledge, which its teachers proclaim, which its apologists defend, which its literature disseminates, which its summer schools expound, and which the rank and file of its followers attest by both word and deed." (p.110)

But don't you believe that Bahá'u'lláh is also Christ?

"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." Jesus Christ (John 14:6)

Bahá'ís believe, as do the Christians, in both Jesus Christ and the Bible. We believe that Christ was the Only Way, the Only Begotten Son, and all other Biblical teachings concerning Christ. It is clear, from the Bible, that Christ must one day return. Bahá'ís believe that He has returned, and has come in the Glory of the Father. The name Bahá'u'lláh itself, is Arabic for "Glory of God". The Bible says that Christ will descend from heaven, but it becomes clear from an in-depth reading of the Bible that Christ also descended from heaven, the first time He came. But wasn't He actually born? This same fact puzzled the Jews, who expected the Messiah to descend from heaven, sit on the throne of David, raise an army, kick out the Romans and literally fulfil all the prophecies of the Old Testament. However, God had another plan. "They (the Jews) said, 'Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, 'I have come down from heaven?'" (John 6:42) The Messiah was born on earth, lived, was rejected, tortured and persecuted and cruelly put to death. This did not fit well with the Jews' literal interpretation of the Scriptures. Yet His Cause eventually triumphed over the earth and millions of people have had spiritual fulfilment and fulfilment through His Message.

Christ said, "Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58) "In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1). It is clear that the physical body of Christ did not exist from the beginning, but the divine Christ did. Christ's physical body was born, changed form and attained manhood, and clearly could not be the changeless nature of Christ. Christ is eternal, before the world was, His spiritual teachings have always existed and are always the same. Christ said, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness... For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak." (John 12:44-49). Christ is that eternal Messenger of God who comes in each age, to be a "light into the world" so that "whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." It is this same Christ that has returned in the person of Bahá'u'lláh, who is Christ returned in the Glory of the Father. Bahá'u'lláh has a different body, personality and soul, but He is that same Being that was "before Abraham," the changeless and eternal Christ, the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. If Christ came the first time 'from heaven', could 'from heaven' not be literally meant? Christ was born the first time, could it not be reasonably assumed that He would be born a second time? Is Christ's body really floating in some physical afterlife?

Christ said that He would return like a "thief in the night," (Rev. 3:3 & 16:15) meaning He wouldn't return by literally coming down through the clouds. Revelation 3:12 says: "And I will write on him My new name..." (i.e. Christ will return with a new name). "Every eye shall see him" is clearly not to be taken literally. How else shall He come as a "thief in the night"? The prophecies of the New Testament were sealed up until His coming, and they now stand revealed and open. Bahá'u'lláh is the same Christ, that has existed before the beginning of the world. Christ said, concerning the coming of Bahá'u'lláh, "I still have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you unto all truth." (John 16:12-13) Bahá'u'lláh is that "Spirit of Truth" predicted by Jesus. Isaiah (7:14) says that the Messiah's name will be Emanuel ("God with us") and not Jesus. When you take a literalist approach and deny the claims of Bahá'u'lláh, you might as well deny the claims of Jesus as well, since the Jews judged Jesus in a similar way. Jesus didn't literally fulfil the Old Testament prophecies, but He did fulfil all of them, and Bahá'u'lláh does not literally fulfil the New Testament prophecies, but He does fulfil all of them nonetheless. Jesus said that John the Baptist was Elijah, but clearly they had distinct bodies and personalities. Similarly, Bahá'u'lláh is the Return of Christ, even though He does not have the same body as Christ.

Bahá'u'lláh says (Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 169): "The Great Being saith: The Tongue of Wisdom proclaimeth: He that hath Me not is bereft of all things. Turn ye away from all that is on earth and seek none else but Me. I am the Sun of Wisdom and the Ocean of Knowledge. I cheer the faint and revive the dead. I am the guiding Light that illumineth the way. I am the royal Falcon on the arm of the Almighty. I unfold the drooping wings of every broken bird and start it on its flight."

(Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings, p. 101): "O Jews! If ye be intent on crucifying once again Jesus, the Spirit of God, put Me to death, for He hath once more, in My person, been made manifest unto you. Deal with Me as ye wish, for I have vowed to lay down My life in the path of God. I will fear no one, though the powers of earth and heaven be leagued against Me. Followers of the Gospel! If ye cherish the desire to slay Muhammad, the Apostle of God, seize Me and put an end to My life, for I am He, and My Self is His Self. Do unto Me as ye like, for the deepest longing of Mine heart is to attain the presence of My Best-Beloved in His Kingdom of Glory." Common Christian Questions