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I have had spiritual experiences through the Holy Spirit and Baha'u'llah. Recently, though, that has been lacking. But my faith helps me feel content with my lot in life.

Thanks for that scripture, Beautiful. It was beautiful, though at times hard to understand.

You're right. I did have trouble letting go my opinion then. I'm just setting forth an ideal.

Ok, I understand now. I agree.

I don't think you should be so suspicious in this context, given the whole context of this person. I don't know if I would say that, but I believe in consultation, which means each person expressing their own opinion, and not being attached to one's own opinion, and listening to the other...

Sorry, I'm having trouble following you.

I don't see that as religious instruction. It is an exploration of truth together. I don't think beautiful is instructing. I don't see how anybody would it that way.

My wife is not sexually attracted to me, but loves me very much. Real love has little to with sex. In the early days we had sex, and now have one son. In recent years we don't have sex, and it doesn't matter to me. What my wife really wants is not sex but cuddling together in bed and I provide...

I agree that's it the price of the freedom. God allows bad things to happen to good people or causes them to happen to test the character of the person and to help us to grow in character and spirituality.

Yes, he that commits more good than evil is better off in the judgement of God. But there is always forgiveness, and it is up to God ultimately in the end regardless of what we do what our spiritual fate will be. God judges us for the degree of our faith and the deeds we do, both. I believe that...

Are you getting at that evil is the lack of good, and does not have a positive existence. This is what Abdu'l-Baha taught: Evil is nonexistent; it is the absence of good. Sickness is the loss of health; poverty, the lack of riches. When wealth disappears, you are poor; you look within the...

Do you mean that spiritual and character growth may come from suffering? The Baha'i Faith teaches that. However, I believe that if suffering is bad enough it can also hurt character development. On the other hand, I believe that God recompenses us for suffering in the next world. God created us...

My wife is gay but I have no idea how many gay people there are in the Baha'i Faith. I know of one Baha'i who grew up in the community that turned out to be gay, and quit the Baha'i Faith to have love, according to his father. I think he still believed in Baha'u'llah. I don't understand the...

Recently I had started to meditate, but used it solely to commune with God. First I would do my devotions, including one particular prayer that I had found to engender closeness to God. Then I would spend 24 minutes strengthening the connection to God. Sometimes this worked, sometimes it didn't...

It is a misfortune because homosexual behavior affects them spiritually, in my view. Of course, you will disagree. A sexual act outside of marriage causes physical pleasure, but this is temporary. The longer term spiritual welfare is more important. This lasts forever. Refraining from immoral...

It is none of my business what they do in private either or the Baha'i administration for Baha'is. If a Baha'i does this flagrantly in public it becomes an issue for Baha'i administration, and even then the LSA will not cause a Baha'i to lose their administration rights, which means they can't...

No, I disagree with you. While genes may not play much role in whether one is gay, it comes about by other factors the gay person has little control over. Sara did not decide to become gay, and most people do not decide to become gay. It is foisted upon them. Unfortunately you made the initial...

The Baha'i Faith doesn't forbid homosexuality, it forbids homosexual sex. Trailblazer made the mistake of saying homosexuality instead of homosexual sex.

whose life is sustained by its universal recognition of one God and by its allegiance to one common Revelation Shoghi Effendi, “The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh” I think here the common Revelation is the Revelation of all Manifestations of God. I don't expect anyone to believe that if they're...

It started on March 21, 1844, on the year of the declaration of the Bab, and was instituted by the Bab, and continued for the Baha'is. I don't know. There will be a time when laws such as for murder will be implemented. I don't know if such laws will apply to people who are not Baha'is...