Purpose of Religion - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/purpose-of-religion/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Sat, 25 Oct 2025 10:11:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 The Myths of Hell and Eternal Damnation https://bahaiteachings.org/myths-hell-eternal-damnation/ https://bahaiteachings.org/myths-hell-eternal-damnation/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52312 The Myths of Hell and Eternal DamnationI left the Lutheran church at the age of twelve, rejecting any God who would send souls to an eternal torture chamber named Hell. Then, curious and a little fascinated,...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/myths-hell-eternal-damnation/feed/ 7 What’s the True Purpose of Religion? https://bahaiteachings.org/whats-the-true-purpose-of-religion/ https://bahaiteachings.org/whats-the-true-purpose-of-religion/#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85525 Humans and religion seem to go hand in hand. Historians and archeologists have established that as far back as 50,000 years ago most human bands and tribes in the world...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/whats-the-true-purpose-of-religion/feed/ 0 Who Creates Religion — and Why Are There So Many? https://bahaiteachings.org/who-creates-religion-and-why-are-there-so-many/ https://bahaiteachings.org/who-creates-religion-and-why-are-there-so-many/#respond Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85121 Who Creates Religion — and Why Are There So Many?You’ve probably heard that “There are many paths to the one true God.” Lots of people have said it, but it may have originally come from the ancient Hindu Rig...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/transforming-our-inner-outer-lives/feed/ 1 From Christian Pastor to Baha’i https://bahaiteachings.org/from-christian-pastor-to-bahai/ https://bahaiteachings.org/from-christian-pastor-to-bahai/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=83857 From Christian Pastor to Baha’iIn this series of essays, I’ll attempt to share my personal spiritual odyssey, which spans continents and cultural landscapes, from the Worldwide Church of God to the Baha’i Faith.   Like the...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/from-christian-pastor-to-bahai/feed/ 2 Duality and Unity: the Mystical Path to Knowledge https://bahaiteachings.org/duality-unity-mystical-path-knowledge/ https://bahaiteachings.org/duality-unity-mystical-path-knowledge/#respond Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:00:35 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=80208 How do we speak of the unspeakable? What do we say about the unsayable? How can words and language help communicate our thoughts about things beyond thought? The transcendent longing...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/love-divine-physician/feed/ 0 Does Every Culture Have its Own Religion? https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-messengers-unto-cities-all-nations/ https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-messengers-unto-cities-all-nations/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=67920 Does every one of our cultures and civilizations have its own Faith? Yes, anthropologists and historians have determined. Religion is a human universal—no known society has ever existed without it....

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/spiritual-messengers-unto-cities-all-nations/feed/ 1 All the Prophets: One and the Same Soul https://bahaiteachings.org/all-the-prophets-one-and-the-same-soul/ https://bahaiteachings.org/all-the-prophets-one-and-the-same-soul/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:00:49 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=67748 The Baha’i teachings introduced a revolutionary new and yet ancient concept into the world—that all of the prophets and messengers of God can be seen as one and the same...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/all-the-prophets-one-and-the-same-soul/feed/ 0 Why Do We Have Religion? https://bahaiteachings.org/why-do-we-have-religion/ https://bahaiteachings.org/why-do-we-have-religion/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=67718 In the early 1900s, a Baha’i asked Abdu’l-Baha, one of the Baha’i Faith’s central figures, why good people need religion. “Those who are blessed with good actions and universal benevolence,...

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