David, At 07:09 AM 9/29/03 +0000, you wrote: >>>They give their membership as 144,000, which is obviously absurd, but I think I >>>know where they got that number from.<<
Yes, the BUPC bases it on the Book of Revelation and on the additive value of the individual digits (9). Mark A. Foster * http://MarkFoster.net http://CompuServe.m.foster.name ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
