Original sentence: The Larger group believes Guardians must be physical descendants, the smaller that the spiritual understanding of the requirement is valid
Edited sentence: "  By definition, a Baha'i is anyone who accepts and endeavors to follow this Covenant, so these splinter groups are in fact not really "Baha'i" at all (though they may call themselves such).(This obviously ignores the fact that `Abdu'l-Bahá and the Baha'i scriptures explicitly stated that Guardians had to be lineal descendants of Baha'u'llah.In fact, the Baha'i scriptures are quite explicit about the Covenant of Baha'u'llah (which comprises an entire volume of such scripture and is called the "Book of the Coveanant" or "Kitab-i-Ahd.Most of these splinter groups are already defunct, and those few still remaining are extremely small with only a few dozen individuals each