Re: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-31 Thread Ron Stephens
Yes, hello , Elaine, I am very familiar with your account of your conversion, from your web site. It is the most moving Baha'i conversion account I have ever read. By all means, I recommend that anyone who has not read your account, do so at your web site http://elainna.org/Spirit/Journey.html

Re: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-31 Thread Smaneck
In a message dated 12/31/2004 2:12:25 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder why no one has mentioned this tragedy on this list and if there are Baha'i Communities there? I'm sure there are. What I'm wondering is if there are any SEDs in those areas which

RE: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-31 Thread dlmbrt
In a message dated 12/31/2004 2:12:25 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder why no one has mentioned this tragedy on this list and if there are Baha'i Communities there? I went to Feast last night, and we read letters from the NSAs of Thailand and

What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-30 Thread Tim Nolan
Could anyone else tell me, what stands out in your mind about why you converted. What was the thing that grabbed you adn convinced you. I was raised as a Catholic, and had no interest in changing my religion, at the time I first heard of the Baha'i Faith. A friend in my college dormitory told me

RE: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-30 Thread dlmbrt
Could anyone else tell me, what stands out in your mind about why you converted. What was the thing that grabbed you adn convinced you. I was raised in a mainstream Protestant church, and never found it satisfying.  I spent many years exploring various religions.  I was a Quaker for

RE: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-30 Thread Mark A. Foster
Hi, Dave, At 08:42 AM 12/30/2004, you wrote: I was a Quaker for many years, and I spent about ten years in the Foundation Faith of God, a church which is a fringe group and in many of the “cult” books, but which I found to contain some of the truest Christians I have ever met. When you were

re: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-30 Thread Brent Poirier
Could anyone else tell me, what stands out in your mind about why you converted. What was the thing that grabbed you adn convinced you. The other thing I keep wondering about is certainty. I freely admit, I have little certainly about anything. I really am amazed at the degree of certainty

Re: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-30 Thread Smaneck
In a message dated 12/30/2004 1:46:10 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: "There is one other condition which should be mentioned. There arecertain former Bah whose actions do not necessarily constituteCovenant-breaking, but are seriously destructive. Where such

RE: What Convinced Me (was: Questions about Omniscience and related matters)

2004-12-30 Thread dlmbrt
Mark wrote: When you were in it, did they still have similar quasi-Gnostic teachings (re: Satan, etc.) to when they were the Process Church of the Final Judgement? As I recall, their teachings were pretty traditional. We didn't talk about Satan much. The focus was on service. Dave Lambert