The Baha'i Studies Listserv On Oct 6, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Sen & Sonja wrote:
> I've been hoping to find time to research the thinking behind the > idea of conditional covenants, but it's not going to happen this week > at least, so I'll just have to go with what I already know - or think > I do. Seems to me it is pretty obvious that there are conditional aspects to the Covenant. We have Abdu'l-Baha''s reported statement to the first group of western Baha'is - "Great honors and blessings are promised to the people of your land, but on one condition . . . . . ." Also, the Bab's statement that all of the previous religions were capable of being universal, but it depended on the response of the people. The most extreme examples of this would be Hud and Salih. Don C ------------- Understood properly, all man's problems are essentially spiritual in nature. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
