Jim
Nets of Wonder
I’ve been confused about what I’m doing in this thread. I think that when I started it, I wanted to try to explain my ideas about the role of Bahá’u’lláh in responding to current issues and in human progress, in a way that people could understand no matter what they believe or don’t believe about Bahá’u’lláh and His God. Part of what I’m thinking is that for the best possibilities to happen for all people everywhere, we need to have people in every community everywhere around the world who are learning together to understand Bahá’u’lláh’s purposes and practice His prescriptions. Also, the laws of all the governments will need to include His laws. I don’t think that any of that requires all people to become members of the Baha’i Faith or to believe everything that Baha’is believe about Bahá’u’lláh and His God.
I thought of the community life training and practice that the House of Justice is promoting as an example of Bahá’u’lláh’s role in responding to current issues and in human progress. A question came up about whether I think that the same kind of training and practice revolving around other teachers could serve the same purposes just as well. I think that might do a lot of good and little or no harm, and I would be glad for that to happen, but for the best possibilities to happen for all people everywhere, I think that it’s indispensable for some of that training and practice to revolve around Bahá’u’lláh’s purposes and prescriptions, In many more neighborhoods and villages everywhere around the world, than the number of those where it’s happening now.
I thought of the community life training and practice that the House of Justice is promoting as an example of Bahá’u’lláh’s role in responding to current issues and in human progress. A question came up about whether I think that the same kind of training and practice revolving around other teachers could serve the same purposes just as well. I think that might do a lot of good and little or no harm, and I would be glad for that to happen, but for the best possibilities to happen for all people everywhere, I think that it’s indispensable for some of that training and practice to revolve around Bahá’u’lláh’s purposes and prescriptions, In many more neighborhoods and villages everywhere around the world, than the number of those where it’s happening now.