Dear Ron Stephens
Dear brother
I do not know you at all so anything I write is in a deep sense addressed to
my own humble self but you have been the stimulus. Your letter has been the
stimulus. The letter dated
http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist/m43098.html
Let me put my points as numbers
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:44:16 -0500, Ron Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be honest with ourselves, there are no objective criteria to make a
fail-safe choice of religion. There are many good religions available
to choose from. And agnosticism is a fine choice also; after all, more
harm
And singling out scholars for special
condemnation in that fashion could easily degenerate into (or already
is) anti-intellectualism.
Dear Gilberto,
I'm not sure what 'fashion' you mean here, mine. Brent's or Baha'u'llah's.
;-} But I agree that the anti-clericalism in the Baha'i community can
I've heard this accusation alot from Bahais but I don't believe it is
valid. I think there is a very big and clear distinction between
saying that God can't do something and that God didn't do something.
Dear Gilberto,
The Jews never said God couldn't literally do something. They were
basically
Hi, David,
Looking at the passage, the Guardian, through his secretary, didn't say
anything about chastity *before* marriage as the only way to a happy and
successful marital life. He said that chastity was only way to a happy and
successful marital life.
Chastity, or sexual purity, is not
Dear Gilberto,
You asked:
Do you know where those other numbers come from? I think the only
number I've heard of was 10 because in Genesis when Abraham was
haggling with God to spare Sodom, God said that if there were 10
righteous men in Sodom he wouldn't have destroyed it.
Babylonian Talmud,
The Tradition of the Thirty-six Hidden Just Men,
Vahid, do you, or does anyone else, see a relation between this tradition and
this somewhat mysterious statement of Baha'u'llah?
Brent
Behold, Bah'u'llh further explains in the Kitb-i-Badi', one of His works
refuting the arguments of the
