Re: MISSING PARAGRAPHS FROM NEW ERA

It does not surprise me to learn that Baha'i books have been altered.  What
would one expect from an organization that has attempted and is still
attempting to completely alter the Cause of God?

The enemies of the Covenant will stop at nothing to replace their own
version of the AO for the one instituted on earth by God.  Deleting text
from New Era is just another lame attempt to justify themselves.  Or perhaps
they came across a "new translation"!

Jeffrey



"Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "The spiritual or Providential character of the Faith...is further
> exemplified in the continuance, after  'Abdu'l-Baha, of the office of
> interpreter of the Sacred Writings in the person of the successive
> Guardians provided in 'Abdu'l-Baha's Testament.  The Faith, therefore,
> throughout  its era will never suffer the disintegrating influence of
> schisms resulting from differences of interpretation, nor the
> deterioration which follows when generally prevalent materialism
> substitutes  lower values for those revealed by the Founder.  In
> relation to the needs of social progress,  Baha'u'llah provided for
> the formation of an international House of Justice, whose election and
> functions are more specifically revealed in the Testament of
> 'Abdu'l-Baha.  The fact that this supreme administrative body, the
> chairman of which  will be the successive Guardians, can not only
> initiate legislation on all matters not defined in the Book, but also
> annul its own enactments when new conditions require different
> measures,assures for the Faith the vital continuity of a living
> organism.  Established on universal truths, it is endowed with
> capacity to adapt to the conditions and requirements of each
> generation and age."
>
> "Since acceptance of Baha'u'llah involves acceptance of the social
> teachings and the social institutions He revealed and provided, or
> which have been instituted by 'Abdu'l-Baha, no Baha'i can found a
> separate school or sect, nor justify any other basis for schism."
>
> Since Shoghi Effendi stated that "Baha'u'llah and the New Era" was one
> of the basic three books Baha'is should use when teaching the Faith, I
> think it is very serious when these two paragraphs were deleted from
> editions printed after 1960.
>
>
>      Barbara