Re: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-23 Thread Sandra Chamberlain
Dear Christian, I strongly support your effort to include references directly from authoritative writings and have included a couple of my own. Would also like to mention that some of the "grounds" addressed by Loni were/are covered in the Synopsis and Codification of the Kitab-i-Aqdas. Those

Re: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-23 Thread Christian Edward Gruber (Personal)
whatever has been revealed from the Pen of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in this connection so that all may be fully reminded. Divorce is conditional upon the approval and permission of the Spiritual Assembly. The members of the Assembly must in such matters independently and car

Re: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-23 Thread Loni Bramson
Ok, I am working from memory here, but grounds for divorce (from memory) are adultery, desertion, irreconcilable differences, antipathy, resentment, aversion. Antipathy, aversion, and resentment are very, very strong emotions, but hatred goes beyond them all. For instance, nobody should hate

Re: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-22 Thread Jeanne Inamuco
Title: Re: Grounds for divorce From: "James Mock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Baha'i Studies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:08:05 -0500 To: "Baha'i Studies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Grounds for divorce Ever

RE: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-22 Thread Steve Cooney
: Thursday, 23 September 2004 5:41 a.m. To: Baha'i Studies Subject: Re: Grounds for divorce   In a message dated 9/22/04 4:18:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If one should not feel antipathy towards another, however, why should antipathy be valid grounds for di

RE: Grounds for divorce [Paradox]

2004-09-22 Thread Khazeh Fananapazir
ent: 22 September 2004 16:08 To: Baha'i Studies Subject: Re: Grounds for divorce Dear David, In my recent studies of the Writings, I have come to find a lot of paradoxessituations where two apparently conflicting statements are madesuch as "the most manifest of the manifest and the

Re: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-22 Thread Smaneck
In a message dated 9/22/04 4:18:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If one should not feel antipathy towards another, however, why should antipathy be valid grounds for divorce? Dear David, Clearly, you have never been married. ;-} But the word here is 'aversion&

Re: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-22 Thread James Mock
Dear David, In my recent studies of the Writings, I have come to find a lot of paradoxessituations where two apparently conflicting statements are madesuch as "the most manifest of the manifest and the most hidden of the hidden", the two being opposites.  I can cite numerous others too, su

Re: Grounds for divorce

2004-09-22 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 9/22/2004 6:18:12 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the Faith the only grounds for divorce is antipathy towards the other. I think the term in question is "repugnance" not antipathy. __ You are

Grounds for divorce

2004-09-22 Thread David Friedman
In the Baha'i Writings we are told not to hate others. In the Faith the only grounds for divorce is antipathy towards the other. If one should not feel antipathy towards another, however, why should antipathy be valid grounds for divorce? I'm getting the impression that there