On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 05:02:22 -0900, Sandra Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Susan: <>Dear Ron and Sandra, I think Abdu'l-Baha's > knowledge of English may well have been adequate to understand > people without an interpreter much of the time, at least by > the time He left America. I suspect speaking English back to > them may have been more of a problem. But when a translator > got it wrong, He was often able to correct them.<> > > I agree, and should have been clearer in my reply. I feel it > wasn't so much a lack of "understanding" as fluency. > > Hello, I didn't closely follow the omniscience discussion so I'm not sure if specific claims along these lines were made in the Bahai writings regarding Abdul-Baha but aren't both *knowing* how to understand a language and *knowing* how to speak a language two things which would be included in omniscience? Peace Gilberto __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
