Recent content by Sen McGlinn

The OP has an internal contradiction, as Canon law states: Can. 285 §1. Clerics are to refrain completely from all those things which are unbecoming to their state, according to the prescripts of particular law. §2. Clerics are to avoid those things which, although not unbecoming, are...

If this were so, there could be no evil, for evil is the absence of the good. Therefore theologians in all the Abrahamic religions have suggested that while God could be fully present everywhere, in every thing, God has voluntarily chosen to "leave a space." In Bahai theology, God has endowed...

The current western scholarship is largely based on Islamic scholarship, from centuries ago. At one time there was intense interest among Islamic scholars about the history of the Quranic text and the relationships between the various forms in which it was transmitted. This changed in my view...

[/I][/INDENT]The reference may be to this verse in the Kitab-e Aqdas (verse 132): O peoples of the world! Give ear unto the call of Him Who is the Lord of Names, Who proclaimeth unto you from His habitation in the Most Great Prison: "Verily, no God is there but Me, the Powerful, the...

The Bahai God is the God of Abraham and Isaac, the "Aba" of Jesus. There is no question of Bahais believing in a different God. I became a Bahai because I saw that it was the same kind of thing happening as in early Christianity. I first resolved to study it as it developed, because over the...

really? Do you have a soure for that? I don't see the point in someone arising if not rightly guided, or in someone being rightly guided unless they arise and do something about it, so I've always assumed they are different aspects of the same person.

The alphabet is a weekend job, literally. Students start classes here on a Thursday or Friday (first week of term is basically administration), and are tested on the alphabet on Monday. Persian grammar is covered in six weeks: it must be the easiest language in the world to begin with, except...

Good point. I struggled with it. First, I found that the things Christ said would happen in that generation, in the little apocalpyse of St Matthew, are not so wide-ranging : I checked some commentaries, and found Clarke's commentary says "Shall come upon this generation -...

I guess you mean, Luke 21:31: and similarly Mark 13:30, and Matthew 24:34. This shows us that Jesus understood his own being as the fulfillment of the Biblical promises, as the coming of the Kingdom. His followers instead pushed the fulfillment of the Messianic prophecies into the future, not...

Jesus thought so:

Now your link does work: ht tp://www.christianforums.com/rules/#faq_sof_creed I have trouble with the term only-begotten in that creed. It's a translation mistake, the result of reading genetos in its Latin meaning (beget), rather than its Greek meaning (kind, sort, type). John 1:18 does not...

Christians who do believe in the muslim creed, are not called Christians any more. They are converts to Islam. Christians do convert to Islam, ergo, some Christians can believe in the Muslim creed. [/I]The Muslim holy book is called the Quran, not the Qumran. Qumran is an archaeological site...

Soon I will have written enough posts to be allowed to post URLs. this is one more for my score !

Both dreams and traditions are tricky: there can be some truth in them, but how do you tell? Only by measuring them against the scripture. The Quran teaches that God has always sent prophets, to every people. The Quran condemns those who say "the hand of God is chained up" - which is what...

The Iqan is written in Persian. There is an Arabic translation, but JJ might just as well read the English translation. For works of Baha'u'llah written in Arabic, I suggest: al-kalimat al-maknuneh - hidden words (Arabic section) download it from Baha'i Reference Library: ht tp:/...