The Baha'i Studies Listserv Hi Stephen, Is this your blog? http://bahaitheway.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
Could you tell me please in what part is it about the nature of the Manifestation of God? Thanks, H. ________________________________ De: Stephen Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> Para: Baha'i Studies <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> Enviado: Lunes, 27 de agosto, 2012 3:41 P.M. Asunto: Manifestations, Scriptures, and Houses of Worship The Baha'i Studies Listserv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_House_of_Worship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_text http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_founders_of_religious_traditions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestation_of_God http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith_and_the_unity_of_religion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_revelation_(Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD) Here's the story that this topic is based on below. http://bahaitheway.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html I have included at the top relevant Wikipedia articles. It also brings up relevant topics: Are Baha'i House of Worship really non-denominational or particularly Baha'i? If the reading of scriptures / religious texts is soposed to nondenominational, why limit them to only Bahai approved religious traditions? How does one know if any given individual is a Manifestation? What are the criteria? How does one validate or falsify if one has any one of the criteria if not all of them? (This means just saying that someone doesn't meet the criteria without explaining why doesn't mean one doesn't meet the criteria, it means you rigged the test so that anyone and everyone would fail other that the enumerated list of Manifestations that Baha'i use.) Does the unity of religion mean unity of religion or unity of Bahai authorized list of a dozen or so religious tradtions and only these? Look at the lists of religions and spiritual traditions and their founders. Then, look at the Manifestations of God page. Look at the page of each Manifestation of God and the progressive revelation page. Now, look back to the founders page. See how only some founders are highlighted and most are not? How do the religions with unhighlighted founders fit into unity of religion? Is unity of religion limited to religions with the highlighted founders? I looked and here were my results: Abraham (Abrahamic religions is general) Moses (Judaism and Samaritanism) Tanakh or Torah Zarathustra/Zoroaster (Zoroastrianism) Avesta Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni Buddha (Buddhism) Buddhist texts Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah/Christ (Christianity) Bible Muhammad (Islam) Quran Bahaullah (Bahai Faith) Baha'i texts Bab (Babism/Babiism or Bayanism/Bayaniism) Babi/Bayani texts Note: Religious founders are listed by their birth rather than when they founded their religions. Also, some Manifestations like Krishna weren't listed as founding a religion. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-661545-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu 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/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
