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One Love
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| Posted 7/11/2003 9:57 AM (GMT -6) |   | Check this out. See what y'all think.
The Bahai Faith...
http://www.bahai.org/article-1-3-0-1.html
http://www.bahai.org/article-1-3-0-2.html
I got some stuff to say, but I wanna wait until I got some people who've read this.
Holla,
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BJS
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| Posted 7/11/2003 3:01 PM (GMT -6) | | Interesting articles, Meph. What are your thoughts?
Brett
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Empiress
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| Posted 7/13/2003 6:57 PM (GMT -6) | | I tend not to ever say anything disparaging about the Baha'i faith because at one time, when I was a wandering atheist-agnostic (during major faith crisis #2 of 3), it was a Baha'i group who brought me back to the Church. As a temporary member of a local Baha'i group I learned how to pray again and found safety and refuge in a spiritual community after being "beaten up" spiritually by Christians. Eventually I gained the strength through their support to come back to the Church...and to Christ. God was certainly working through them and their community as far as I could tell. There are also quite a lot of Baha'i martyrs in Muslim parts of the world who die very willingly for their faith.
It is remarkable how much their writings resonate with portions of the New Testament.
What do you make of it?
~E
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honorman
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| Posted 7/14/2003 3:01 AM (GMT -6) | | Put enough vegetables in the pot, something good is bound to rise to the surface.
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 7/14/2003 4:09 AM (GMT -6) | | Interested in knowing what yer think'n Meph. I know it has something to do with parallel's between the N.T. narratives concerning John the Baptist and Jesus to the Bahai faith. But what specifically?
Is it about God revealing "Godself" (a favorite Meph term) through other religions? Is it the authenticity of the reports? What?
Brandon
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GregBoyd
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| Posted 7/14/2003 6:23 AM (GMT -6) | | Bahuallah (whatever his name is) prophecied that there would be no wars after the year 2000. I had a representative of the Bahai faith in a world religions class I taught in 1994 who made a friendly promise that if there was any national conflicts after the year 2000 he would abandon his faith in Bahallah and become a Christian.
Wish I could find his number now.
But with Empiress I must say that I have never met a member of the Bahai faith that I didn't like. I find I have much more in common with their overall faith(e.g. their picture of God) than I do with many Christians.
Doc
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following
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| Posted 7/14/2003 7:22 AM (GMT -6) | | I was recently in India and visited the Bahai Lotus Temple in New Delhi. After spending days of visiting muslim mosques and hindu temples throughout New Delhi I was excited to visit this temple. But I must say I felt the most spiritually opressed at this place than any of the other places I had visited. It was a very unique feeling. THe time I entered the main building/sanctuary you were unable to speak. Almost instantly upon entering I felt suffocated. I looked into the eyes of volunteers and saw nothing. They just looked empty to me. And the silence was painful. I just about lost it and screamed out loud. I'm not trying to hate on the faith, but man it was an experience that I will never forget.
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DLW
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| Posted 7/14/2003 7:36 AM (GMT -6) | | My high-school biology teacher had learned about Bahaism in College. When I apologeticked with him, its influence was apparent since they try to pick the best of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Yet, his views were basically a hodge-podge of the beliefs of the above.
He quoted to me, "Seest thou a flaw" from Islam and a general denial of natural evil from Judaism. His view of Christ was basically the gnostic one.
As with Islam, there still is much good in Bahaism and, obviously, Bahaism has been purified by their experience of persecution in the muslim world.
dlw
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 7/16/2003 11:34 AM (GMT -6) | | Still waiting...
Brandon
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.--Isa 49:15-16
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One Love
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| Posted 7/17/2003 1:22 AM (GMT -6) | | Sorry, y'all. I've been crazy busy. I'll be back on here DEFINITELY by tomorrow night or something like that
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 7/19/2003 8:17 AM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Sorry, y'all. I've been crazy busy. I'll be back on here DEFINITELY by tomorrow night or something like that
Thanks for the patience.
Uh-huh..."tomorrow night" has come and gone and Mephistopheles has not shown up. COWARD!! 
And what do you mean by "something like tomorrow night?" Will it be "something like tonight?" or "something like a week from 'tomorrow night' so we should expect you on the 24th at night time? What? What?? More questions!
Brandon
Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.--Isa 49:15-16
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