The Baha'i Studies Listserv Show me a Text in the Good Book wherein it says that you have to take the "Seal of the Prophets" verse as meaning *literally* the very last Person sent by God.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Gilberto Simpson < gilberto.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > And from a Muslim perspective, the textual support for the finality of > Muhammad's messengership and prophethood is in an analagous way clear, > strong, varied, persuasive and compelling. At times, when Bahais talk > about it, it is framed as a character defect. > > "Everybody" claims to just be following what their texts say and > somehow there must be something wrong with those who have a different > interpretation. In EVERY religion there are SOME people who do this. > > > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > Maitreya says to the Baha'is, "It's not meant to be taken > >> literally. You are doing the same thing that the followers of older > >> religions have done", whereupon Baha'is insist that they are not and > claim a > >> kind of exceptionalism; > > > > Dear Matt, > > > > It is not an issue of exceptionalism We take the passage literally > > because Baha'u'llah explicitly told us to do so in this case. > > Everything else we have regarding the next Manifestation might well be > > symbolic. > > > > warmest, Susan > > > > __________________________________________________ > > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto: > gilberto.simp...@gmail.com > > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto: > leave-547394-68452.e157d5dc5efabb63696f251595c88...@list.jccc.edu > > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to > ly...@list.jccc.edu > > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > > Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net > > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > > > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:iskandar....@gmail.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto: > leave-547399-2080565.74e62800577573ae18970b78170ff...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to > ly...@list.jccc.edu > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-547401-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
