Re: 50,000 locals refused to accept Baha'ullah's claim

Jerry,

 The Faith grows in the U.S. at about 0.8% per year; a DISMALLY small
rate-of-growth comparible to religions who do not seek converts.
Eckankar is growing MUCH faster than the Baha'i Faith. All "new
religions" grow fast at first. For example, the Boston Church of
Christ grew from 3 members in 1976 to 276,000 members in 1996. New
Religions today grow much faster than did Christianity in the 1st
Century because today we have freedom of religion, and television and
printing and world-travel. To "truly" compare the rate-of-growth of
the Faith you must compare it with other religions of about the equal
size. The Faith is doing as well as Liberal churches, but both the
Faith and Liberal churches are WAY under Conservative religions
(conservative sects of Islam, the Mormon Church, the Assemblies of
God, etc). Ask yourself "why?".

Darrick Evenson


Jerry Joplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Darrick Evenson wrote:
> 
> > Hahahah!!! Keep on lying to yourself! That'll work!
> > 
> > Jerry Joplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >>The Baha'i Faith is growing faster than Christianity did.  At the time 
> >>Constantine seized power, only 5% of _Romans_ were Christians, and there 
> >>were very few Christians outside the Roman world.  (Thats 300 years 
> >>after Christ).
> >>
> >>The Baha'i Faith spread has spread to the whole world in 150 years.
> 
> Darrick, do you want to discuss this rationally, or sling random 
> cliche's?  If so, compare and contrast the growth of Christianity with 
> the growth of the Baha'i Faith.
> 
> Jerry