From: RobertArvay@msn.com

On Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 12:03:51 AM UTC-5, sma...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Bob, 
> 
> Are you the Remeyite turned Evangelical turned Orthodox I used to see here
years ago? 
> As for the everything in the W&T not working out as expected, I look at it
the same way as I look at Jesus' statement "This generation will not pass away
until you see the end of these things." In neither case does it mean
Abdu'l-Baha or Jesus Christ 
weren't divinely inspired. 
> 
> warmest, Susan
= = = = =

Hi, Susan,

I seem to remember a Susan Maneck here, years ago, but I was never those
things.

I am open-minded about Abdul being a sincerely religious person.
Ruth White was persuaded that he was.

Shoghi was an entirely different story, as I explicate in the OP.

Jesus was not a divinely inspired man, He is God, incomparable to anyone else.

Things "not working out as expected," is a euphemistic way of characterizing
Shoghi's
repeated, emphatic declarations, not only about the central core necessity of
Guardianship,
but also of his own vital responsibility to ensure a  clear, indisputable line
of succession, 
or failing that, some provision to account for a lack of succession. 

It does your case no good to say, well Jesus failed in the same manner,
because it 
does not explain Shoghi's discrepancy.  Blame-shifting is not a valid argument.

Blessings to you!
Robert Arvay
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