would you guys/gals say that God's omnipotence allows him to interact with humans in their lives in some way similar to miracles or karma, or to 'guide', not control a person's life, in certain ways?
Response:
The interaction between God and man is an ongoing relationship through what we call the Covenant .. We believe God will never leave humanity alone without Divine Guidance..and man is free to accept or reject it.
Abdul-Baha does make some remarks about freewill:
Some things are subject to the free will of man, such as justice, equity, tyranny and injustice, in other words, good and evil actions; it is evident and clear that these actions are, for the most part, left to the will of man. But there are certain things to which man is forced and compelled, such as sleep, death, sickness, decline of power, injuries and misfortunes; these are not subject to the will of man, and he is not responsible for them, for he is compelled to endure them. But in the choice of good and bad actions he is free, and he commits them according to his own will.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 247)
what do Baha'is think of marxism? an ideology thats deivatives takes over 1/3 of the earth cannot be an accident devoid of the influence of God, no?
not that God is a marxist, but only say God used marxism to express something in some of it's fazes, or as an experiment? me Im not a marxist.. but I like hegel
Response:
Shoghi Effendi the Guardian of the Baha'i faith has written extensively about fascism, communism, racism and war and so on ...One of his statements:
The chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind are none other than the triple gods of Nationalism, Racialism and Communism, at whose altars governments and peoples, whether democratic or totalitarian, at peace or at war, of the East or of the West, Christian or Islamic, are, in various forms and in different degrees, now worshiping.
(Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p. 113)
So Baha'is do not think much of Communism.. Our first House of Worship in Ishqabad today in Turkministan was completed by the Baha'is in 1919 was later seized by the Communists under Stalin.. Baha'is were either exiled to Siberia or sent to Iran where they could also be persecuted. The fate of Baha'is in Nazi Germany was not much better.. The Faith was outlawed for being too internationalist and some Baha'is were imprisoned.
Baha'is have always been non-partisan .. that is we do not join political parties or support partisan candidates..