The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Ok fair enough. I was just giving food for thought not making a 'full > argument' as such.
Sorry if I responded sharply but I get pretty touchy when people imply that their own perspective is somehow more 'spiritual' than us 'academics.' > But in any case there are apparent differences in man and woman > that go beyond the physical. Such as? Why have all the known manifestations > of God up until this point been only men? Because we are not yet mature enough to accept a woman in that role? In the past, women were not equal because they were not equal. Women were typically seven years younger than their husbands when they married and child birth endangered their lives so much that their life expectancy was half that of a male. If they married at 13 and died before they were 30 how could there be any equality? But in this Day those barriers are gone and we don't need to recreate them. Why should > women have the right to be the first educators of their children and not > men? Men can be. In practice women generally are. > Why should God make men have the right to be on the house of Justice and not > women? Abdu'l-Baha said in the future the wisdom of this would be known. In my opinion it was a matter of hikmat. How are these different? Both are ordinances of God and stipulate > inequality. There is no ordinance from God that women are the first educators. When 'Abdu'l-Baha referred to them as such in one of His talks, He was being descriptive, not prescriptive. What was being prescribed was education for women. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-537140-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu 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]
