I am interested to know if the House has the authority to officially declare
someone a martyr. Shoghi Effendi was careful in who he applied the word to. I
know of a situation a while back where a Baha'i died for their faith, and the
House said that person was a martyr. This didn't sit well
I am interested to know if the House has the authority to officially
declare someone a martyr.
Is there such a thing as an official declaration about someone's
spiritual status, in the Bahai Faith? Are you perhaps thinking too
much within the framework of the Catholic church, with its lists of
I am interested to know if the House has the authority to officially declare
someone a martyr. Shoghi Effendi was careful in who he applied the word to.
I know of a situation a while back where a Baha'i died for their faith, and
the House said that person was a martyr. This didn't sit well
Dear Ron,
I think this will be my last post to you because we are no longer discussing
Baha'i-related issues but your objections to my philosophical approach in
this discussion.
You write,
You are taking my words our of context and deliberately
misrepresenting what I said. it is not possible
it doesn't mean they
have a special spiritual statements.
Obviously I meant station, not statement. ;-}
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ian,
:The standards of rationality (identity, non-contradiction, excluded middle
and sufficient reason) have been tested for millennia and found not only to
be true but also universally practiced though not necessarily universally
professed.
nonsense.
relativistic nonsense.
the only FoundTruth
Dear Gilberto,
You write,
Fair enough. I think there was an earlier e-mail of mine which talked
about skepticism which you really didn't give an adequate response to.
You had given some specific examples of things you claimed to know
for sure and I pointed out to you how they didn't necessarily
From A compilation on Baha'i Education, page 5
In the treasuries of the knowledge of God there lieth concealed a
knowledge which, when applied, will largely, though not wholly,
eliminate fear. This knowledge, however, should be taught from
childhood, as it will greatly aid in its
There's a good blog entry by Ismael Velasco entitled
Fanaticism or Relativism: Can a Bahá'í be Certain?
at
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bahai-Epistolary
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The influence of individual souls is and always will be
Dear Mike,
Thank you for taking the time to find this reference. I've never seen this
before.
Warmest,
Larry
Mike wrote:
(“Epistle to the Son of the Wolf”, p. 32) [19]
1. Regarding this passage, an extract from a letter dated 5 January
1948 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an
Dear Firestorm,
The meaning of 'compatible' is very simple and straight forward: compatible
is not contradictory to the substance or intent of a statement either
directly or by logical consequence.
Definitional issues are important: it is difficult to have a productive
exchange of views if we do
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