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Some Answered Questions
by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Edition 1, (September 2006)

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Contents

  • Baha'i Terms of Use
  • Part One: ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE PROPHETS IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
  • 1: NATURE IS GOVERNED BY ONE UNIVERSAL LAW
  • 2: PROOFS AND EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
  • 3: THE NEED OF AN EDUCATOR
  • 4: ABRAHAM
  • 5: MOSES
  • 6: CHRIST
  • 7: MUHAMMAD
  • 8: THE BÁB
  • 9: BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
  • 10: TRADITIONAL PROOFS EXEMPLIFIED FROM THE BOOK OF DANIEL
  • 11: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN
  • 12: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF ISAIAH
  • 13: COMMENTARY ON THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN
  • 14: SPIRITUAL PROOFS
  • 15: TRUE WEALTH
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@19289@[email protected]#toc36" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Part Two: SOME CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS
  • 16: OUTWARD FORMS AND SYMBOLS MUST BE USED TO CONVEY INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTIONS
  • 17: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
  • 18: THE GREATNESS OF CHRIST IS DUE TO HIS PERFECTIONS
  • 19: THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST
  • 20: THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM
  • 21: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BREAD AND THE WINE
  • 22: MIRACLES
  • 23: THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
  • 24: THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE APOSTLES
  • 25: THE HOLY SPIRIT
  • 26: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
  • 27: THE TRINITY
  • 28: EXPLANATION OF VERSE FIVE, CHAPTER SEVENTEEN, OF THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN
  • 29: EXPLANATION OF VERSE TWENTY-TWO, CHAPTER FIFTEEN, OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS
  • 30: ADAM AND EVE
  • 31: EXPLANATION OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT
  • 32: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE “FOR MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN”
  • 33: THE “RETURN”
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    SPOKEN OF BY THE PROPHETS
  • 34: PETER’S CONFESSION OF FAITH
  • 35: PREDESTINATION
  • Part Three: ON THE POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF THE MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD
  • 36: THE FIVE ASPECTS OF SPIRIT
  • 37: THE DIVINITY CAN ONLY BE COMPREHENDED THROUGH THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
  • 38: THE THREE STATIONS OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
  • 39: THE HUMAN CONDITION AND THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
  • 40: THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
  • 41: THE UNIVERSAL CYCLES
  • 42: THE POWER AND INFLUENCE OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
  • 43: THE TWO CLASSES OF PROPHETS
  • 44: EXPLANATION OF THE REBUKES ADDRESSED BY GOD TO THE PROPHETS
  • 45: EXPLANATION OF THE VERSE OF THE KITÁB-I-AQDAS, “THERE IS NO PARTNER FOR HIM WHO IS THE DAYSPRING OF REVELATION IN HIS MOST GREAT INFALLIBILITY”
  • Part Four: ON THE ORIGIN, POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF MAN
  • 46: MODIFICATION OF SPECIES
  • 47: THE UNIVERSE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING; THE ORIGIN OF MAN
  • 48: THE DIFFERENCE EXISTING BETWEEN MAN AND ANIMAL
  • 49: THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN
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    RACE
  • 50: SPIRITUAL PROOFS OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN
  • 51: THE SPIRIT AND MIND OF MAN HAVE EXISTED FROM THE BEGINNING
  • 52: THE APPEARING OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BODY
  • 53: THE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND THE CREATURE
  • 54: ON THE PROCEEDING OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT FROM GOD
  • 55: SOUL, SPIRIT AND MIND
  • 56: THE PHYSICAL POWERS AND THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS
  • 57: THE CAUSES OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THE CHARACTERS OF MEN
  • 58: THE DEGREE OF KNOWLEDGE POSSESSED BY MAN AND THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS
  • 59: MAN’S KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
  • 60: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (1)
  • 61: THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SPIRIT (2)
  • 62: PERFECTIONS ARE WITHOUT LIMIT
  • 63: THE PROGRESS OF MAN IN THE OTHER WORLD
  • 64: THE STATE OF MAN AND HIS PROGRESS AFTER DEATH
  • 65: EXPLANATION OF A VERSE IN THE KITÁB-I-AQDAS
  • 66: THE EXISTENCE OF THE RATIONAL SOUL AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY
  • THE IMMORTALITY OF CHILDREN
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    href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@19289@[email protected]#toc146" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">67: ETERNAL LIFE AND ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD
  • 68: FATE
  • 69: THE INFLUENCE OF THE STARS
  • 70: FREE WILL
  • 71: VISIONS AND COMMUNICATION WITH SPIRITS
  • 72: HEALING BY SPIRITUAL MEANS
  • 73: HEALING BY MATERIAL MEANS
  • Part Five: MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS
  • 74: THE NONEXISTENCE OF EVIL
  • 75: TWO KINDS OF TORMENT
  • 76: THE JUSTICE AND MERCY OF GOD
  • 77: THE RIGHT METHOD OF TREATING CRIMINALS
  • 78: STRIKES
  • 79: THE REALITY OF THE EXTERIOR WORLD
  • 80: REAL PREEXISTENCE
  • 81: REINCARNATION
  • 82: PANTHEISM
  • 83: THE FOUR METHODS OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE
  • 84: THE NECESSITY OF FOLLOWING THE TEACHINGS OF THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS