(Since I can't get the instant-message thing to work, I'll just give you a not here:) Please note the spelling, Art: MUSKET (not muskit)....
Greetings! Baha'i elections are democratic, with each adult believer able to vote, typically for nine-member administrative bodies....
Not any sort of central belief, no! There's simply some remainder of it because it tends to be more significant in Persian and Arabic cultures...
Re: Symbolic meaning of numbers nine and nineteen: And in addition, nine is the value of the letters forming the word "baha": 2+1+5+1 =...
You're most welcome! :-)
The Wilmette, IL temple is in fact the North American temple, there being one per continent at present (with the exception of South America, which...
>[W]hy did the leaders of the Baha'i faith make such a concession? The Baha'is didn't "make such a concession." This was directed by...
I hope this has since changed to include all the UK! Bruce
Art, trying to use your link gives a "not found" error. Bruce
Save that Baha'is are under obligation (from their own scriptures) to OBEY the laws of the land!! The only thing they may not do is deny their...
You might wish to note that the Baha'i Faith is also a "traditionally pacifist church," having been such since its inception! Peace, :-) Bruce
One of the best Baha'i sites around is Planet Baha'i, which you can find here: http://www.planetbahai.org It's discussion area has a great...
Another very good one is in many Baha'i prayer books under "Assistance": it begins, "Remove not, O Lord, the festal board." Best! :-) Bruce
And the Baha'i scriptures also say this: "It is even possible that the condition of those who have died in sin and unbelief may become changed;...
Bob, >It's possible that the UU "Unitarian Baha'is" are a bogus group. There are people supposedly involved with them who have definitely been...
Precisely! And as 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi have asserted, the Baha'i Faith itself will survive and endure, while these other groups not...
And the contrast is clear, I trust, between those Baha'is who endeavor to progress the Faith as a whole and its stress on unity and harmony, and...
And the short answer is, it's one of the (many) volumes of Baha'i scripture--in this case, one considered quite mystical. Peace, :-) Bruce
Probably around one percent, that being the overall percentage of Baha'is in the national population. Bruce
Unpardonable sin is also addressed in "Some Answered Questions," where 'Abdu'l-Baha explains that "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit" refers not...
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