RE: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Ahang Rabbani
But as before the infallibility in no way comes from the Guardian. Abdu'l-Baha envisioned a Universal House of Justice that would have a living Guardian serving on it at all times, and as its Head. In that formulation, why wouldn't the infallibility of the House come through the Guardian? In

Re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:16:17 -0800 (PST), Ahang Rabbani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But as before the infallibility in no way comes from the Guardian. Abdu'l-Baha envisioned a Universal House of Justice that would have a living Guardian serving on it at all times, and as its Head. In that

Re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Ahang Rabbani
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding but are you a Remey-ite? Are you insane?? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 __ You are

Re: Scope of the House of Justice -VERY LONG

2005-01-30 Thread Sandra Chamberlain
Susan: Is that what your argument is based on, capitalization? Because as far as I know there is not any convention whereby Baha'is are supposed to use upper case letters to refer to the Universal House of Justice and lower case when referring to other institutions. The only difference

Re: Ocean

2005-01-30 Thread Patti Goebel
Does anyone know how to contact (by email) the people that produce Ocean? Or can someone point out a link to them on the Ocean/Baha'i Education website? James If you have Ocean installed on your computer there is a link to the author under the resources button on the toolbar (and also under

Re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Mark A. Foster
Gilberto, At 07:31 AM 1/30/2005, you wrote: Sorry if I'm misunderstanding but are you a Remey-ite? Sorry I didn't catch this message earlier. I have been running a fever. Ahang Rabbani is far from it. He is a devoted member of the Baha'i Faith. What would have made you come to that conclusion?

Re: More Nature of Morality was Re: How to pick a prophet? Re: Arson

2005-01-30 Thread Mark A. Foster
Gilberto, At 07:55 AM 1/30/2005, you wrote: I gave this a little more thought and I think that perhaps we could all agree that morality can be situational and that what is appropriate or inappropriate can depend on the concrete specifics of a situation, but I think that would still see

Re: Bahai jihad? Re: Men and Women equal?

2005-01-30 Thread Patti Goebel
I don't believe that the Nicean creed is necessarily authentic Christianity. The real Christians were probably all eaten by lions or never left the catecombs. There are some Jewish Christian (like Ebionites) groups with docetic tendancies which from a Muslim perspective seem a likelier

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Patti Goebel
Gilberto: Ok, I believe you. But then when you are in your Bahai paradigm, and read that the Buddha is identified with being a Manifestation, but the teachings of real live Buddhists in the world don't seem to be consistent with the Bahai teachings, I'm not sure what you do. Do you bracket

RE: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Susan Maneck
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding but are you a Remey-ite? Are you insane?? LOL. Gilberto is not a Baha'i, Ahang, and he doesn't know you. But he is familiar with Remeyite arguments and some of your arguments resembled theirs. They insist that the infallibility of the House of Justice is something

RE: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Susan Maneck
Abdu'l-Baha envisioned a Universal House of Justice that would have a living Guardian serving on it at all times, and as its Head. In that formulation, why wouldn't the infallibility of the House come through the Guardian? Dear Ahang, First off, the Guardian did not have to serve on it at all

Re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:16:17 -0800 (PST), Ahang Rabbani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But as before the infallibility in no way comes from the Guardian. Abdu'l-Baha envisioned a Universal House of Justice that would have a living Guardian serving on it at all times, and as its Head. In that

RE: Scope of the House of Justice -VERY LONG

2005-01-30 Thread Susan Maneck
Considering that I wasn't stating my opinion and and defining my personal logic in an attempt to persuade, I would have to say No to your question. I don't view this as a great debate with a winner and loser. Dear Sandra, Sorry if I came down too hard in that last post. I'm using the term

Re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Smaneck
In a message dated 1/30/2005 12:29:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What evidence is there that he envisioned a living Guardian? Dear Gilberto, Abdu'l-Baha talks about the Guardian being the head of the Universal House of Justice for life in the Will

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:18:57 -0800, Patti Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gilberto: Ok, I believe you. But then when you are in your Bahai paradigm, and read that the Buddha is identified with being a Manifestation, but the teachings of real live Buddhists in the world don't seem to be

Re: Bahai jihad? Re: Men and Women equal?

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:56:36 -0800, Patti Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gilberto: I don't believe that the Nicean creed is necessarily authentic Christianity. The real Christians were probably all eaten by lions or never left the catecombs. There are some Jewish Christian (like

Re: More Nature of Morality was Re: How to pick a prophet? Re: Arson

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:36:14 -0600, Mark A. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gilberto, At 07:55 AM 1/30/2005, you wrote: I gave this a little more thought and I think that perhaps we could all agree that morality can be situational and that what is appropriate or inappropriate can depend

RE: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Susan Maneck
If that's the case, why would God have let the message get distorted in this way? Dear Gilberto, You believe the same thing has happened to Christianity and Judaism, don't you? warmest, Susan __ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as:

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:59:25 -0600, Susan Maneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's the case, why would God have let the message [of Buddhism] get distorted in this way? Dear Gilberto, You believe the same thing has happened to Christianity and Judaism, don't you? I was asking from

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Patti Goebel
But in the Kitab I-Iqan is the section which has often been quoted to me: How could God, when once the Day-star of the beauty of Jesus had disappeared from the sight of His people, and ascended unto the fourth heaven, cause His holy Book, His most great testimony amongst His creatures, to

Re: More Nature of Morality was Re: How to pick a prophet? Re: Arson

2005-01-30 Thread Popeyesays
In a message dated 1/30/2005 12:52:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That would be my view, yes. However, I assume you believe in contextualizing some sort of timeless (?) essentialist moralitySure. Except I'm not sure I can clearly even imagine the alternative.My

RE: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Susan Maneck
I am personally open to the idea that Buddha may have been a prophet, But I wouldn't insist on it the way that the Bahais do. Dear Gilberto, We believe it because Abdu'l-Baha said so. So don't have any reason to believe that the current Buddhist scriptures are distorted. Buddha appeared in

Re: Scope of the House of Justice -VERY LONG

2005-01-30 Thread howard green
Dr. G. Thanks, the unsubscribe request went through From: "Richard H. Gravelly" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "Baha'i Studies" bahai-st@list.jccc.edu To: "Baha'i Studies" bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Subject: Re: Scope of the House of Justice -VERY LONG Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 11:58:01 -0800 The

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:50:20 -0800, Patti Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in the Kitab I-Iqan is the section which has often been quoted to me: How could God, when once the Day-star of the beauty of Jesus had disappeared from the sight of His people, and ascended unto the fourth

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:29:38 -0600, Susan Maneck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am personally open to the idea that Buddha may have been a prophet, But I wouldn't insist on it the way that the Bahais do. Dear Gilberto, We believe it because Abdu'l-Baha said so. Fair enough. So don't

Re: More Nature of Morality was Re: How to pick a prophet? Re: Arson

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:09:27 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/30/2005 12:52:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That would be my view, yes. However, I assume you believe in contextualizing some sort of timeless (?) essentialist morality

RE: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Susan Maneck
Well, Jesus didn't write any of the New Testament himself either. No, but at least the NT material was written within a generation of His passing. Here we are talking about two centuries later. What would be left to [Buddhists] to cling to from the setting of the day-star of [Sidhartha Gautama]

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Gilberto Simpson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:09:44 -0500 (EST), Iskandar Hai, M.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Gilberto Simpson wrote: And it just begs the question: What would be left to [Buddhists] to cling to from the setting of the day-star of [Sidhartha Gautama] until the rise of the

Re: Holy of Holies = Perennial Wisdom?,

2005-01-30 Thread Firouz Anaraki
Gilberto: Ok, I believe you. But then when you are in your Bahai paradigm, and read that the Buddha is identified with being a Manifestation, but the teachings of real live Buddhists in the world don't seem to be consistent with the Bahai teachings, I'm not sure what you do. Do you bracket the

RE: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread louise mchenry
Dear Ahang, you wrote: --- Abdu'l-Baha envisioned a Universal House of Justice that would have a living Guardian serving on it at all times, and as its Head. In that formulation, why wouldn't the infallibility of the House come through the Guardian? what makes you so certain that

Re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Firouz Anaraki
Dear Susan, you wrote: What the rest of the Baha'i community did was go back to what Baha'u'llah said was to happen if His lineage ran out before the election of the Universal House of Justice. This was stated in the Aqdas: "Endowments dedicated to charity revert to God, the Revealer of

RE: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Susan Maneck
I thought this too, until someone suggested to me that the guidance of the first Guardian as laid down in numerous letters could be seen as that there is still a Guardian, and that the Universal House of Justice consults with the Guardian when they consult his letters. Dear Janine, I think the

re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Brent Poirier
Because Baha'u'llah makes no mention of the Institution of the Guardianship by name in His Writings; and because even those references in His Writings to a hereditary successor are limited to Him Who hath branched from this mighty Stock, Him Who hath branched from this Ancient Root, and the

re: Scope of the House of Justice

2005-01-30 Thread Brent Poirier
Abdu'l-Baha envisioned a Universal House of Justice that would have a living Guardian serving on it at all times, and as its Head. In that formulation, why wouldn't the infallibility of the House come through the Guardian? I would like to offer some thoughts on this subject raised by Haji