oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
It's alright Badger .. You can be a "spiritualist" if you want to be.
As I hope that your Local, National and Universal Assemblies will try to be.
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It's alright Badger .. You can be a "spiritualist" if you want to be.
Not so! Not at all. We only deal with Baha'i issues in the jurisdiction we serve... that's it. In the future and that may mean centuries there may be "Houses of Justice" that will deal with more issues than we have today, but for now we are strictly and I mean the term quite literally we are "non-political"
All these refer to the same thing? The beginning of Islam to the beginning of the Baha'i Faith? Do you agree? Is this more or less the official Baha'i interpretation of this part of the Book of Revelation? Thanks.
But Arthra, I am referring to the future, in those centuries ahead, when Houses of Justice (in a Bahai World) would rule.
The best way to test or assess any religion is to try and guage what it would 'look like' if it controlled the World. Maybe Bahais would prefer to point in some other direction?
No..... I don't know anything about the inner workings of Bahai
but I don't think that many Bahais do either.
"whenever it is recorded in the Holy Books that such a one was blind and recovered his sight, the meaning is that he was inwardly blind, and that he obtained spiritual vision,"
You've read how the healings are described in the NT... and the resurrection. If they were only symbolic, then the writers have misled people about Jesus being able to perform healing miracles and that God raised him from the dead. So the only thing Baha'is believe about the NT and the Jewish Bible is the Baha'i interpretation of it.
A person lives a spiritually "dead" life, where do they go?
Since the bulk of people in the world aren't all good or bad, do they all end up at the same place?
Can they still choose to do good or evil and either advance or go back a step or two?
So moving on... Chapter 11. It has the two witnesses doing their thing for 42 months. Verse 7 says that when they have finished their testimony, the beast kills them and the bodies sit in the street of the city where their Lord was crucified for 31/2 days. Verse 11, after the 3/12 days they come to life and a great earthquake hits that city and kills 7000 people. Verse 14... the second Woe is past. Since you've already had Muhammad and the Umayyads in chapter 9 with the first Woe, how do you come up with using them again in the events describing the second Woe?
Also, as I remember, the earthquake Baha'is used was in Persian, but this says it should be the city where the Lord of the two witnesses was crucified. How can that be anywhere but Jerusalem?
And no one really has no idea of the far future. Even the term "controlling" the world may reveal more about your own apprehensions when "controlling" isn't in our expectations at all... A true world civilization that we envision has already begun... We have instant communication and that means response... For now no one controls that... We're ourselves responsible you and i ... Badger and Art.
There is absolutly no doubt the Faith of Baha'u'llah will grow.
My point is that if you mean radical Islam, then say radical Islam. Even if it's a couple of faiths, I just think it's wise to be more specific. Then these misunderstandings of 'everybody but Baha'i'' won't occur.No your religion is not lumped in except with those who are tolerant and peace loving.
Wot...? Me...? 'onest ol' Badger they calls me.Thats good you admit that.
Why wouldn't we?
we are strictly and I mean the term quite literally we are "non-political"
Wot...? Me...? 'onest ol' Badger they calls me.
Now, a Bahai who is only aware of the happy side of the Faith and who 'calls it' is purely honest.
But any who know the harder details and who might withold 'em in sweet camourflage, they could deserve another description entire.
Your faith in it, sure, but there is no factual evidence it's even growing today.
With all the Baha'i' exposure sites on line, all one can speculate is that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Given the info on this thread, predestination of the good (and bad), inequality in equality, no spiritualism in spirituality, a hoped for theocracy, etc what % of the World's free population would be attracted to Bahai?
All the Bahai sites? I think most of them are estranged or excommunicated.
I think that only Bahai.org is the official site.
One member who has posted on this thread is estranged because of his web sites, but he is the clearest writer about Bahai imo.
Not so! Not at all. We only deal with Baha'i issues in the jurisdiction we serve... that's it. In the future and that may mean centuries there may be "Houses of Justice" that will deal with more issues than we have today, but for now we are strictly and I mean the term quite literally we are "non-political"
You should quote directly from Baha'i Writings such written plans you are referring to.Yes....... the written plans describe a theocracy, but only to be initiated at the point of a very high % of Bahais in the World.