Re: Too stupid to be saved?

2007-03-17 Thread David Friedman
Dear Susan, Baha'u'llah doesn't use the word 'saved' that passage you cited. Okay, but doesn't it seem obvious that we can infer that meaning? I don't think it is our place to make judgements as to why others believe or don't believe. We should concern ourselves with our own spiritual

Re: Too stupid to be saved?

2007-03-17 Thread smaneck
Baha'u'llah doesn't use the word 'saved' that passage you cited. Okay, but doesn't it seem obvious that we can infer that meaning? Dear David, It is a misleading appropriation of Christian vocabulary. Baha'is are not obsessed with individual salvation the way Christians are and we shouldn't

Re: Too stupid to be saved?

2007-03-17 Thread Scott Saylors
If we are told there is no physical hell, from what shall we be 'saved'? Speaking in particular of Abdu'l Baha, but by extension to all of us, Baha`u'llah says: Here, in a Tablet to 'Abdu'l-Bahá, He says also: O God! This is a Branch which has sprung forth from the Tree of Oneness, the