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id="496245250" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#093831255">Part 1: On the Influence of the Prophets in the Evolution of Humanity</a> </h3> <ol class="expandable-hide"> <li value="1" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="547976504" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#004433479">Nature Is Governed by a Universal Law</a></li> <li value="2" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="800062534" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#934192056">Proofs and Arguments for the Existence of God</a></li> <li value="3" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="718282248" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#870241797">The Need for an Educator</a></li> <li value="4" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="156091730" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#186800601">Abraham</a></li> <li value="5" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="419665231" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#238869341">Moses</a></li> <li value="6" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="538057326" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#127216169">Christ</a></li> <li value="7" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="589842398" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#049820925">Muḥammad</a></li> <li value="8" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="679555297" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#398862087">The Báb</a></li> <li value="9" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="665737063" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#415965635">Bahá’u’lláh</a></li> <li value="10" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="180285456" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/4#340198067">Rational Proofs and Traditional Arguments from the Sacred Scriptures</a></li> <li value="11" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="748092189" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/5#759985721">Commentary on the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation of John</a></li> <li value="12" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="893496591" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/5#493874326">Commentary on the Eleventh Chapter of Isaiah</a></li> <li value="13" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="932042417" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/5#767472988">Commentary on the Twelfth Chapter of the Revelation of John</a></li> <li value="14" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="029405695" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/5#064129660">Material and Spiritual Cycles</a></li> <li value="15" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="870609112" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/5#882062333">True Felicity</a></li> </ol> </li> <li class="expandablelist-item"> <h3 class="brl-head expandable-toggle"> <a id="573604986" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/6#509770403">Part 2: Some Christian Subjects</a> </h3> <ol class="expandable-hide"> <li value="16" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="591698341" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/6#254467773">Intelligible Realities and Their Expression through Sensible Forms</a></li> <li value="17" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="849958112" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/6#814254734">The Birth of Christ</a></li> <li value="18" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="946235899" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/6#809762755">The Greatness of Christ</a></li> <li value="19" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="805525413" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#672203696">True Baptism</a></li> <li value="20" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="418033281" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#332904480">Baptism and the Changing Law of God</a></li> <li value="21" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="578940220" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#352288959">The Bread and the Wine</a></li> <li value="22" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="252849470" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#791519794">The Miracles of Christ</a></li> <li value="23" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="812480235" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#009213026">The Resurrection of Christ</a></li> <li value="24" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="121364113" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#031723538">The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles</a></li> <li value="25" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="888227847" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#081192424">The Holy Spirit</a></li> <li value="26" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="873142402" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#881098412">The Second Coming of Christ and the Day of Judgement</a></li> <li value="27" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="515553747" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#918768437">The Trinity</a></li> <li value="28" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="179175376" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#116701633">The Pre-existence of Christ</a></li> <li value="29" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="088881407" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#059789780">Sin and Atonement</a></li> <li value="30" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="587440061" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#001171118">Adam and Eve</a></li> <li value="31" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="580404365" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#977906130">Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit</a></li> <li value="32" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="304468050" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#895023134">“Many Are Called, but Few Are Chosen”</a></li> <li value="33" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="881919910" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#779151961">The Return of the Prophets</a></li> <li value="34" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="634273685" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#567510376">Peter and the Papacy</a></li> <li value="35" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="544178078" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/7#347101221">Free Will and Predestination</a></li> </ol> </li> <li class="expandablelist-item"> <h3 class="brl-head expandable-toggle"> <a id="303115678" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#587197821">Part 3: On the Powers and Conditions of the Manifestations of God</a> </h3> <ol class="expandable-hide"> <li value="36" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="256617154" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#394598598">The Five Kinds of Spirit</a></li> <li value="37" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="767775153" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#520106379">The Connection between God and His Manifestations</a></li> <li value="38" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="461407604" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#601291491">The Three Stations of the Divine Manifestations</a></li> <li value="39" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="344496073" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#905019971">The Human and the Divine Stations of the Manifestations</a></li> <li value="40" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="651843351" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#328342800">The Knowledge of the Divine Manifestations</a></li> <li value="41" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="695580912" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#544017997">Universal Cycles</a></li> <li value="42" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="299161351" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#000271252">The Power and Perfections of the Divine Manifestations</a></li> <li value="43" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="585714512" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#245658440">The Two Kinds of Prophets</a></li> <li value="44" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="431974730" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#505548271">The Rebukes Addressed by God to the Prophets</a></li> <li value="45" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="907714262" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/8#982518737">The Most Great Infallibility</a></li> </ol> </li> <li class="expandablelist-item"> <h3 class="brl-head expandable-toggle"> <a id="887311452" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/9#860817489">Part 4: On the Origin, Powers, and Conditions of Man</a> </h3> <ol class="expandable-hide"> <li value="46" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="742831750" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/9#139689663">Evolution and the True Nature of Man</a></li> <li value="47" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="770079240" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/9#740956664">The Origin of the Universe and the Evolution of Man</a></li> <li value="48" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="527801110" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/10#512412594">The Difference between Man and Animal</a></li> <li value="49" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="060728920" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/10#453035044">Evolution and the Existence of Man</a></li> <li value="50" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="065679952" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/10#266110917">Spiritual Proofs of the Originality of Man</a></li> <li value="51" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="281880135" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/10#951994139">The Appearance of the Spirit and the Mind in Man</a></li> <li value="52" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="830024052" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/10#852749203">The Appearance of the Spirit in the Body</a></li> <li value="53" class="brl-numberedsection"><a id="213158363" class="brl-location"></a><a href="/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/10#345827086">The Connection 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