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Hi Brent,
Thanks for your many invaluable posts on this and other subjects.
The following scenario did not occur (of course!) but may have been possible
had an eligible successor or two been available: that is, were Shoghi
Effendi to have appointed in a Will an
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Hi Mike,
The letter from the Research Department dated 26 December 2002 quoted a letter
dated 31 August 1983 which was written on behalf of the Universal House of
Justice. It was the 31 August 1983 letter which included the statement, With
regard to the specific
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Dear David,
Perhaps now that these Writings were brought into being by the Supreme
Manifestation, future Manifestations will be able to quote from them.
Indeed, perhaps the primary intended audience is the future Manifestations,
or the people in future
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From: Jim Habegger
Vaughn, I see two ways of reading that.
Rather, I think, the Master is forbidding the promotion of
interpretations/opinions/ideas which are understood by the person himself to
be contrary to guidance from the Guardian or the House of Justice,
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From: Jim Habegger
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005
3:49 AM
Subject: Limits on promoting
ideas
... I see limits in the
writings on the *manner* in which we can promote our ideas, but I do not see
any boundaries on the *kinds* of ideas we can promote. In fact, I
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From: Brent Poirier
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:35 AM
I am interested, not in how God withholds gifts, but in how you friends see
that the Hands of the Cause have withheld.
Hi Brent,
I think the implications of withheld is similar to the passages below.
Best
(Brent continued:) In general, a letter means a follower of the Word,
a follower of the Prophet. My own guess is that in this instance, the
Letter is `Abdu'l-Baha. Who else would have such influence?
Hi Brent,
Thanks for providing the link to the interesting Brittingham pilgrim notes.
To me,
Dear Mark,
Regarding the statement in
your original essay,
Some choices may,
contextually, be regarded by certain people as desirable or even criminalized.
Other decisions may, relative to various circumstances, be seen as undesirable.
Did you, instead, mean to
write the
As background material forseeing how
the word "atonement" has been used in the Baha'i literature, below are some
quotesfrom the Master and the Guardian, and a long excerpt fromAdib
Teherzadeh on the death of Mirza Midhi, the Purest Branch. In the quotes
below, emphasis has been added using
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What, specifically, does the Faith teach about atonement? ... We can have
each person (or at times groups of persons) bear the full burden of their
actions or in theory we can have a manifestation (Jesus or Bahaullah) bear
some (or maybe all?) of
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From: Patti Goebel
If you haven't seen this provisional translation of the Tablet of Visitation
for Quddus revealed by the Bab yet, I'm posting it below. It may give you an
idea of the complexity of this issue. It's from
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From: Larry Marquardt
In Some Answered Questions page 48, Abdul-Baha says the two winesses in
Revelation 11:3 are Muhammad, the Messenger of God, and 'Ali, son of Abu Talib. I am
trying to understand the paragraph in God Passes By page 49 where it seems to say,
to
-Original Message-From: Richard
H. Gravelly
"Say O people, if ye deny these verses, by what
proof have ye believed in God? Produce it, O Assemblage of false
ones"
Would a scientist say that Baha'u'llah is placing
the burden of proving the null hypothesis on the denier of His claim
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