Existence of God - BahaiTeachings.org https://bahaiteachings.org/tag/existence-of-god/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:30:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Do You Believe in Free Will — or the Will of a Creator? https://bahaiteachings.org/believe-free-will-or-will-creator/ https://bahaiteachings.org/believe-free-will-or-will-creator/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=67976 In the study of our universe, physicists have managed to construct models that describe the behavior of things, from fundamental particles to galaxies. Of course, large and obvious parts are...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/believe-free-will-or-will-creator/feed/ 3 Can We Hear God? https://bahaiteachings.org/can-hear-god/ https://bahaiteachings.org/can-hear-god/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=34551 Have you ever experienced a sudden conviction, a determination, that there is something you must do—that it isn’t even a choice? Did you ever think that maybe this was God...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/can-hear-god/feed/ 2 Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/ https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003 Have you ever wondered why you exist? Of course you have – that question occurs, at some point, to all of us. Science asks it, too, usually in this macro...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/feed/ 10 My Big Problem: Living With a Small Concept of God https://bahaiteachings.org/my-big-problem-living-with-a-small-concept-of-god/ https://bahaiteachings.org/my-big-problem-living-with-a-small-concept-of-god/#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=85993 As a child, I was abused terribly by my parents. Like many small children, I believed my parents represented God.  Also, I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian culture with...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/my-big-problem-living-with-a-small-concept-of-god/feed/ 3 Does God Cause the Suffering of the Innocent? https://bahaiteachings.org/god-cause-suffering-innocent/ https://bahaiteachings.org/god-cause-suffering-innocent/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 http://bahaiteachings.org/?p=40981 Everyone, sooner or later, asks the age-old question: does an omnipotent, all-knowing God cause—or at least fail to stop—the suffering of the innocent? Several major principles in the Baha’i writings...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/god-cause-suffering-innocent/feed/ 7 Who—or What—is God? https://bahaiteachings.org/who-what-is-god/ https://bahaiteachings.org/who-what-is-god/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=47014 You’ve heard this one, right? “Can God create a rock He cannot lift?” It’s meant to disprove the concept of an omnipotent God.  The reasoning goes like this: “If God...

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]]> https://bahaiteachings.org/who-what-is-god/feed/ 12 Can Reason Prove that a Creator Exists? https://bahaiteachings.org/can-reason-prove-that-creator-exists/ https://bahaiteachings.org/can-reason-prove-that-creator-exists/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=51998 Can Reason Prove that a Creator Exists?Belief in God may be better than non-belief, but here’s the thing: some people dispute every detailed proof of the existence of God.   I’ve made a study of the arguments,...

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