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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Where do souls come from?
Message-ID: <20980041@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 15:25:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 29 15:25:53 1984
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In <715@noscvax.UUCP>, Janet Walker, a Baha'i, says,

> >From a Jewish perspective, I would say your question is meaningless.
> >Space and time are the limits of the physical universe. Without
> >a body as a referance point, how can the consept of time exist 
> >for the soul?
> >Think of it this way... If you can understand the fact that a soul
> >has no location in space, why should it have one in time?
> >
> >                      michab 
> I must certainly agree with this!  In fact I think that anyone from
> any major religion must have some writings which confirm this.

Here is solid proof for my claim that Baha'i is not eclectic.  In fact, it
seems to do no more than reconcile Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Any
such statement about the "soul" is in conflict with Buddhism, which denies
the reality of the soul.  Roughly the same can be said for Taoism.
Furthermore, I am not familiar with any Hindu scriptures which would suggest
anything of the sort, nor scriptures or tales of any other polytheistic
religion.

The Baha'is are free to walk their path of monotheistic synthesis, but to
call it "eclectic" is an absurdity.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.