The Baha'i Studies Listserv > The catch 22 being that the arguments both for and against any group being > steadfast or covenant breaker requires you to presuppose a group to have > either status before hand, thus begging the question. Questions like Who > succeeded the Bab? Who succeeded Bahaullah? Who succeeded Abdul Baha? Who > succeeded Shoghi Effendi? Is the Will and Testament and authenticdocument? > etc. are only >party lines >and not really thought about unless denouncing > other sects.
You have no idea what we do or do not think about. The 'empty throne' nonsense originated with the Jensenites who developed this weird mixture of Baha'i Teachings and American Evangelical Christianity. Leland Jensen, btw, claimed to have his own revelation from God while serving time in Montana State Penitentiary for child molestation. Now the so-called Unitarian Baha'is are picking up on this. This is a group started a few years back by Eric Stetson who first claimed to be Manifestation of God, then converted to the Assembly of God, then became a Unitarian, and having failed to start a new Universalist church within Christianity, seems to now try this with the Baha'i Faith. While Eric Stetson is not considered a Covenant breaker, his new sect is stealing bits and pieces from various Covenant breaking groups. BTW, I'm not sure he actually has a following. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-676044-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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]
