Re: Moses and the Pentateuch

2004-01-15 Thread Richard H. Gravelly
Well, thank you for performing the "go-between" function. - Original Message - From: "Susan Maneck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Baha'i Studies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Daniel Grolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Moses and the Pentateuch > > > Th

Re: Moses and the Pentateuch

2004-01-15 Thread Susan Maneck
> Thank you. However, I am not subscribed to the Baha'i Biblical Studies > list. And Daniel, unfortunately, isn't subscribed to Baha'i Studies. __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email

Re: Moses and the Pentateuch

2004-01-15 Thread Richard H. Gravelly
Thank you. However, I am not subscribed to the Baha'i Biblical Studies list. - Original Message - From: "Susan Maneck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Baha'i Studies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:22 PM Subject: Fw: Moses and the Pentateuch > > - Original Message -

Fw: Moses and the Pentateuch

2004-01-15 Thread Susan Maneck
- Original Message - From: "Daniel Grolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Susan Maneck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:50 AM Subject: Moses and the Pentateuch > Dear Richard, > > wrote the Bible around 400 B.C.> > > I certainly do question it and though I can think o

Re: Iqan quote

2004-01-15 Thread Dave Lambert
firestorm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, maybe the word 'profound' does have an uncommon usage as a noun, perhaps how the word 'profundity' is now used.   It seems to me to be identical to the common figuative use of the word "deep." Dave " 8^{)>   Semper in fæcibus sumus, sole

Re: Fw: Temptation of Abraham

2004-01-15 Thread Dave Lambert
> Ezekiel 20:25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live; 26 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know t

Re: Temptation of Abraham

2004-01-15 Thread Dave Lambert
David Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Furthermore, just out of interest, how do we reconcile Genesis 22, which says that God tempted Abraham, with James, who says that God tempts no man? By realizing that the Bible is not history in the same sense as our college texts; by exercising discernmen

Biblical information

2004-01-15 Thread Richard H. Gravelly
NOW my question is this. When you read St John's Gospel you see an emphatic statement that John the Baptist **was not** the Light Is this because the Evangelist writing the Gospel wished to powerfully invite the followers of the Baptizer to turn to Jesus Christ? What was the reason for this appare

Earthquake in Bam

2004-01-15 Thread Larry Marquardt
Earthquake in Bam Here is an interesting letter that was found in a Bahá'í News bulletin here in Western New York. It is a copy of a letter from a Baha'i in the Bam area sent to another Baha'i: "On the morning of the earth quake ALL but one of the Baha'i friends of Bam were gathered at one of

Zaynu'l Muqarrabin's questions

2004-01-15 Thread David Friedman
From looking at a few of Zaynu'l Muqarrabin' questions in Q & A it isn't at all apparent what his question actually is. I don't know if he just assumed that Baha'u'llah was all-knowing and would thus know what he wanted to know, or whether his questions have been edited. Here's what I mean: "