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Yes and no, sola scriptura is one facet.
Sola fide
Sola gloria Dei
Sola gratia
Sola scriptura
Solus Christus (or Solus Bahus)
From: Gilberto Simpson gilberto.simp...@gmail.com
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How devout is devout? Religionists tend to be broken into three categories of
followers: laity, devout devotees, clergy/monastics.
I will give an example of this negleacted middle category.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up%C4%81saka_and_Up%C4%81sik%C4%81
That was the
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Why doesn't the Baha'i Faith have a Ten Commandents,
Yamas-Niyams,
Precepts, etc?
We do sometimes speak of the Twelve Principles.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
Jews consider the concept to be part of the Oral Torah via the Talmud with
specific Talmudic divisions as oppsoed to Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, etc.
divisions.
The Qur'an has Sura 17 Al-Isra The Night Journey which
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I think the term devout is tricky, unless there is a framework for the
word to have meaning. For example, which of the two people would you
consider more devout? A man with no facial hair, wears a suit to work -
holds fundamentalist views of religion. Or a man who grows
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What pratices would cause a Baha'i to qualify for devout devotee status?
Who cares? I don't think that's important. Following in God's path
has nothing to do with qualifying for some status.
I don't think this is anything to be concerned about.
Being a good Baha'i
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Why doesn't the Baha'i Faith have a Ten Commandents
Why should it have them? Baha'u'llah revealed what God willed
for our age. I think it's a mistake to try to make the Baha'i revelation
fit into any conceptual boxes we invent.
Tim
All good art is about something
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Being a good Baha'i (or any religion) ... It's more a matter of
doing every conscious act with the pure motive of pleasing God.
Not that I know anything about that. 8-)
Tim
All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
--Roger Ebert
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Hi,
I want to share some thoughts not from a so-called scholarly perspective but
more a 'spiritual-inights' one.
True equality can Never exist between man and women because they are
different. All is meant in Bahai is that women have the same spiritual rank
as men and
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That is precisely the argument Muslims make and if buy into it we have
made no progress whatsoever over the past dispensation.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Naison Jones naistrada...@gmail.com wrote:
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Hi,
I want to share some thoughts
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I want to share some thoughts not from a so-called scholarly perspective but
more a 'spiritual-inights' one.
I should add since the only distinctions between men and women are
physical ones your argument is more of a material perspective than a
spiritual one.
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Ok fair enough. I was just giving food for thought not making a 'full
argument' as such.
But in any case there are apparent differences in man and woman
that go beyond the physical. Even still physical differences necessitate
different roles in the physical world. Why
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I think its a bit harsh to say my argument shows no progress over Muslim
doctrine.
With the emphasis on education for women that Baha'u'llah gives they can
achieve outward equality with men. Though what i was saying is this does not
mean woman and men will have
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Wow, that's a really insulting ad hominem counter-argument which is
really irrelevant to what was said. The Bahai faith all by its
lonesome makes certain distinctions between men and women (e.g.
membership in the house of justice, prohibition from military service,
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Signs in nature of harmony coming through apparent inequality:
the queen bee (female) and all the worker bees. A necessary inequality for
the hive to thrive and function.
Ants. Woker and ants and ants of varying roles (soldier ants) etc and the
queen ant.
Through these
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Naison, I wasn't criticizing your explanation or metaphor. I was being
critical of Susan's complaint that you were echoing what Muslims say.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Naison Jones naistrada...@gmail.com wrote:
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Signs in nature of
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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
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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Susan Maneck sman...@gmail.com wrote:
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Wow, that's a really insulting ad hominem counter-argument which is
really irrelevant to what was said.
It is not an issue of being ad hominem.
Perhaps you didn't
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*Sure, and the same is true of Islam... both in terms of how Muslims
understand Islamic general roles, or, in this case, how non-Muslims at
times go too far in attributing problematic gender roles to Islam per
se. As I've said to you before, if you really believe that
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