One way of approaching infallibility is as protection from error, and to ask what sort of 'error' (khata') the protected one (ma`suum) is protected from?
Posted on unenrolledbahai, 17 Feb 2007
This model of the meaning of infallibility concentrates on the element of freedom.
Posted on Talisman9, 7 Feb 2007
What does the doctrine of infallibility add to the Bahai teachings? What does it mean? This posting suggests that it is about freedom to change, which makes it a necessary corollary of progressive revelation (freedom to change the laws of religion) and of the authority of the Universal House of Justice to make and change laws.
Posted on Talisman9, 13 September 2007