How often do you see someone moving backward in their change to a new
religion? I.E. how often do you see Christians becoming Jews,
Muslims becoming Christians, Buddhists becoming Hindus?
Of course it happens, but the overwhelming movement is forward.
Don C
At 10:05 AM +0000 6/7/06, David Friedman wrote:
It says in the Writings that it is not the teacher who converts
seekers to the Faith but the Holy Spirit. Every day people convert
to religions other than the Baha'i Faith. Given that the Baha'i
Faith is the religion for today, God obviously wants people to
become Baha'is. Hence, surely when these people are converted to
other religions the Holy Spirit did not convert them. I don't
understand why, then, we are to believe that every single person who
becomes a Baha'i does so because of the intervention of the Holy
Spirit. It seems incredulous that no one would ever become a Baha'i
without the Holy Spirit deciding to 'make' them a Baha'i. I do
wonder whether what the Writings says is a generalization made to
subdue the ego's of those who have lead people to the Faith.
Regards,
David
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