Re: Christian Youth Groups
Marc Sacco (e9002693@antares.linf.unb.br)
Thu, Apr 20 1995 15:41:40 GMT
Amanda wrote:
>They were all crying, and fainting.
If that's the best that the "Holy Spirit" can do (in whatever religion),
than does it deserve the capitals, or is it just a passing impulse
(caused by hypnosis/frenzy-inducing techniques)? For whatever crying
and fainting are worth, any music, movie (or any other feeling-awakening
pursuit) star causes, every day, the same reaction (e.g. Elvis Presley)?
Are they the "Holy Spirit" (I would say not, since they are made of
flesh)? The hard thing is to produce, at a speed that no human could
even compose a decently sound mail (not like this one), teaching so
lucid and modern that every day are becoming more up-to-date, in a style
beyond that of the learned (and not having studied with any scholar).
This Baha'u'llah did with a Majesty without parallel in history, IMHO.
I have cried many times at the sheer miracles of transformation that,
throughout society and within me, His word and life have awakened, and
fainted a few times in awe of what He still asks, and out of exhaustion
in the path of His service. This is the true "Holy Spirit", that causes
the world, and the human heart, to be totally recreated. To faint and
cry is easy, to transform the character of and individual, and the face
of the earth, is immensely harder, demands much more effort, spirit,
persistence, etc... and yet Baha'u'llah is accomplishing it, by His own
Merit! To make a child cry, a slap on the face is sufficient. To
transform a child into a useful member of humanity, the love and values
of the mother's womb and parent's early education, the investment in his
formal education for decades, is many times not enough...
>it doesn't make sense to me, really, how
>can they have all this power, and all these converts, when the Baha'i
>Faithis supposed to be the relgion of the futtrues
Communism was also supposed to be the politics of the future. It gained
the greatest military power, it had converts that were willing to die
for it in all lands, and it's ideology went down the drain with its
disilusioned, many youth, left with few values, rampant corruption, and
fewer useful jobs. Power, to me, is more linked with individual and
mature initiative whose purpose and support is a unity like that of the
geese when flying: one's lift helps the others, and they alternate so as
not to get tired. Power, to me, is Unity in Diversity. Power, IMHO,
is, also, the framework of Baha'u'llah's Administrative Order's
consultative decisions being carried out by baha'i champions whose inner
lives reflect to everyone the beauty of following the Glory of God for
this day, and seeing His prophecies ever-nearer to their final
consummation.
Most respectfully and sincerely,
Marc