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One Common Faith: A Context
This book was published at the Baha'i World Centre in the year 2000. It is called: One Common Faith. My intention here is just to introduce the book.
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FOREWORD
In April 2002 the Universal House of Justice, the internationally elected leadership of the Baha 
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Posted by RonPrice
- Last Activity 05-01-2006 09:55 PM
by RonPrice 
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Here I'm going to outline why I reject the idea of an omnipotent god and how this is totally congruent with the Christian belief system. If that doesn't interest you then please skip.
The Omnipotence Paradoxes
I'm going to go right back to basics here and start with the collection of argumen
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Posted by Todd
- Last Activity 05-01-2006 09:54 PM
by Todd
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Atheism
Atheism is a not very understood belief. My thought is that if this god individual whom everyone speaks of is so almighty, why does he strike our excellence down with "his wrath" or what I like to call NATURAL DISASTERS (because I'm an atheist) and watch us suffer and die. He created us, as so
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Gods who hear prayers
Gods who hear Prayers
The notion that a God should be able to listen to the prayers of the common man was not new in Ancient times, and even in the Bible, we find the idea in personal names.
In 1979, a stela was found at Ser-abit el-Khadim in the Sinai which shows Hathor as a young wom
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Posted by Solon
- Last Activity 05-01-2006 09:52 PM
by Solon
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In what ways can symbols and ritual be said to have meaning?
Prior to discussing the premise of this article, it becomes immediately apparent that a brief analysis of the language used within the title must be considered before any departure can be attempted. The writer of this paper is aware of the disparaging way that people may dismiss an argument
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Posted by Nehustan
- Last Activity 05-01-2006 09:51 PM
by Nehustan
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‘Religion is concerned with the life here and now’ (Leach).
‘Religion is concerned with the life here and now’ (Leach). Consideration of this assertion with reference to Islam.
A certain lack of ethnographic research presents itself upon the specific issue proposed herein, that being the ‘…here and now’ as presumably opposed to the ‘here after’. Thou
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Posted by Nehustan
- Last Activity 05-01-2006 09:50 PM
by Nehustan
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About myself and my faith (an introduction)
About myself and my faith (an introduction)
I was boen in 1954 in Punjab Pakistan, certainly in a Muslim family. In my childhood I shared all pervailing beliefs, likings and dislikings around me but as I grew up things began to change. Now I have a strong faith in the God not because it
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Posted by akbar
- Last Activity 05-01-2006 09:49 PM
by akbar
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Ancient Love Poetry
Pastoral and Sexual Metaphor in the Ancient Love Poetry Texts
The use of words and terms such as " vineyard,orchard,field is well enough attested in love poetry from the Ancient World.
The plowing and cultivation of a field is a natural metaphor for Sexual intercourse throughout t
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Posted by Kowalski
- Last Activity 05-01-2006 09:48 PM
by Kowalski
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John Locke's refutation of innate principles
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
CHAPTER II
No innate Principles in the Mind.
1. It is an established opinion amongst some men, That there are in the understanding certain innate principles; some primary notions, characters, as it were stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receiv
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The Enemy at the Gates
Enemy at the gates
* 08 October 2005
* From New Scientist Print Edition.
* Mike Holderness
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18825201.300.html
THEIR aim is to destroy science. They seek "nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies". Who are the
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