In the opening section of Some Answered Questions ‘Abdu’l-Bahá uses both logical and traditional proofs to establish the existence of God and the necessity of Divine Educators or Manifestations of God. He devotes several talks to the lives and accomplishments of some of these Divine Manifestations, including Abraham, Moses, Christ, Muḥammad, the Báb, and Bahá’u’lláh, seeing each as a successive link in God’s unfolding plan for mankind’s education. Thus He sheds new light on religious history and on the nature of religion itself. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá returns to the theme of the Manifestations of God in the third section of the book, where He elucidates in greater detail the character, the station, and powers of the unique Beings chosen to act as God’s spokesman.

In the second section of Some Answered Questions ‘Abdu’l-Bahá presents the Bahá’í point of view on a number of knotty Christian subjects. He gives particular attention to the issue of the “return” or Second Coming of Christ. He also examines the birth of Christ, the Resurrection, baptism, the meaning of the eucharist, the miracles of Christ, and the Trinity in a manner that readers schooled in traditional Christian doctrine are sure to find startingly fresh and illuminating.

In the fourth section of the book ‘Abdu’l-Bahá considers the origin, powers and conditions of man. The Bahá’í affirmation of an underlying harmony and agreement between science and religion comes alive in His explantion of the origin and development of the human species. The books fifth and final section is devoted to miscellaneous subjects, including discussions on grounds of human knowledge and pantheism.

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