Does anyone have a source/elaboration/explanation for the idea that
Adam was expelled from the Garden for disagreeing with Satan?
-Gilberto
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Richard H. Gravelly
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> Benjamin La Framboise asked the question:
> Does this conversation count as a quarrel, a conflict, a dispute?
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> Baha'is are allowed a certain amount of latitude in their discussions:
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> "The shining spark of truth cometh forth only after the clash of differing
> opinions." (Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 87)
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> There is a limit:
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> "The honoured members of the Spiritual Assembly should exert their efforts
> so that no differences may occur, and if such differences do occur, they
> should not reach the point of causing conflict, hatred and antagonism, which
> lead to threats. When you notice that a stage has been reached when enmity
> and threats are about to occur, you should immediately postpone discussion
> of the subject, until wranglings, disputations, and loud talk vanish, and a
> propitious time is at hand."
> ('Abdu'l-Bahá: Consultation: A Compilation, from a previously untranslated
> Tablet)
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> (Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 178)
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> Although these advices were Written in the context of instructions to
> Spiritual Assembly consultations, it seems to me that they have general
> application.
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> With regard to the explanation by Abdu'l-Baha regarding "Adam and the
> others"
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> "Remember how Adam and the others once dwelt together in Eden. No sooner,
> however, did a quarrel break out between Adam and Satan than they were, one
> and all, banished from the Garden, and this was meant as a warning to the
> human race, a means of telling humankind that dissension -- even with the
> Devil -- is the way to bitter loss. This is why, in our illumined age, God
> teacheth that conflicts and disputes are not allowable, not even with Satan
> himself." (Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 275)
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> I believe that this can have specific and general application as well.
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> Dominus vobiscum.
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