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I think you probably know those passages and doctrines better than I do. I had nothing particular in mind when I said that.

In our Dayton area Baha'i community we had Feast recently by conference call. There are also virtual devotions over the computer in the area. It doesn't affect my life much. My wife and I were retired anyway, and I don't mind being at home all the time.

There are, of course, different doctrines, and scriptures that seem to contradict each other. That is to be expected from a religion that was written down much later.

Yes, that's true, there's a lot of truth in Buddhism. It's also true that you don't have to study Buddhism closely to have a spiritual life.

There are degrees of distance from God. It's also true that some people are closer to the truth than others. God will be the judge of that, not me.

Yes, it is about the pure in heart. The pure in heart will see God in all religions.

I'm just talking about the chronological order if that was unclear. But this can apply to how a person of any faith looks at any other faith, including mine. Hell does not start at any particular distance. Hell differs according to different perspectives. Person 1 who is less close than person...

I don't think it makes any difference what the chronological order was. It's all true. A later verse doesn't really nullify an earlier verse. It's a matter of finding the interpretation for the seeming conflict.

I just dug up the second quote for a Baha'i friend on another forum. It did not include that part of having their reward from their Lord, I'm glad to see that. Every Muslim should accept those verses. I don't believe that to be incompatible with other verses in the Qur'an.

Yes, my saying being damned and being in hell is a reference to the same thing. Being far or near to God is relative, some will be very far from God, some somewhat better, some very close, and all grades in between. Your interpretation does not take into account other passages from the Baha'i...

The Baha'i Faith doesn't see believers outside of Baha'i as being damned. What informs me best about this is this passage: Death proffereth unto every confident believer the cup that is life indeed. It bestoweth joy, and is the bearer of gladness. It conferreth the gift of everlasting life...

I am taking a course on Indigenous perspectives of the sacred, and the excerpts are from a chapter of a book called Faith, Physics, and Psychology by John Medina - Rethinking Society and Human Spirit. I left out the physics in my excerpts.

I've attached a file about The Discovery of the New World in the sense of what the indigenous peoples of America had that the colonists did not. The interesting part is how America learned federalism from the Iroquois five nations. It's about 7 pages long, which is why I am attaching a file, but...

I am taking an online course about indigenous perspectives on the sacred, and I copied excerpts from a piece about how indigenous peoples in America are a part of the natural world. This is a person who is not indigenous but has learned from them. Many people have written about how, generally...

The biggest challenge is to bring about the true oneness of mankind. This will solve all those directly or indirectly.

https://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/01/29/neuroscientists-believe-theyve-found-proof-for-life-after-death-present-it-to-the-united-nations/ This one is less definite: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/life-after-death/

Yeah, people misinterpret evidence, but one must use one's own reason, trying to see it as objectively as possible, seeing all evidence with the eye of justice, including scriptural evidence. If one's scripture contradicts what is currently understood in science and history, one has re-interpret...

You have to go with the evidence.

No, I am a Baha'i that sees truth in many religions. Teachings by the Buddha differ in some ways from teachings of Christ but they are facets of one truth. Of course for something like reincarnation and resurrection if you take their literal meanings they are incompatible. There is also the...