Comments on: Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing? https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/ Personal perspectives inspired by Baha'i teachings Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Mark David Vinzens https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-70102 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:07:24 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-70102 To explain the world
without reference to the One
Is to explain the day
without reference to the sun.

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🖊️: Reference to the Sun, Baraka Blue

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By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-70062 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:11:31 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-70062 In reply to Chris Haugen.

Good question, except was there ever darkness? If God has always existed, so has His creation, which is full of light, 2 trillion galaxies worth!

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By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-70061 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:09:42 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-70061 In reply to Camilla Chance.

I dunno. Seems to me boredom is something only people experience. I can’t imagine God’s being bored with his creation, which, according to the Bahá’í Writings, has existed as long as God has existed, that is, forever!

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By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-70060 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:06:50 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-70060 In reply to Firooz Oskooi.

What other principles would there be, other than the unity of God, which the Bahá’í Writings clearly affirm? Seems to me the oneness of God might be an indication that there’s one creation or one universe, and given how infinite it is (the Hubble telescope estimates there exist two trillion galaxies, a number quite incomprehensible), it’s hard to comprehend either how or why there would be more than one, if you know what I mean.

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By: Wendy Scott https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-70059 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:59:09 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-70059 In reply to William Burden.

Agreed. I’ve always wondered how a parallel universe could have been thought of, let alone proven. Perhaps the science fiction writers originated the idea?

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By: William Burden https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-70057 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:03:48 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-70057 I struggle to grasp how the word ‘boredom’ enters the creation conversation. As humans, perfection remains a journey not a destination as our ability to perceive perfection constantly changes with our ability to experience it. As to parallel universes in the physical dimension, it remains merely scientific flights of fancy by lazy scientists, knowing full well, this is impossible to prove!

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By: Igor Kuhn https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-39403 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:59:34 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-39403 In reply to Camilla Chance.

Perfection must be boring, is the same, never change. We do not struggle eternally, but until we learn to love. Yes, it´s ages.

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By: Firooz Oskooi https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-39386 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:33:33 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-39386 As you clearly proved that vacuum or nothingness doesn’t exist so the existence doesn’t end with this creation or universe that we know which is based on love and attraction. There must be infinite other multiverses created on other principles.

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By: Camilla Chance https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-39380 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:33:21 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-39380 Yes! Everything God created was out of love, and sometimes we are told the human race most of all, but angels and animals and possibly many creations in outer space were created perfect, whereas human beings struggle eternally for perfection. It sounds to me like the human race was created out of love and boredom.

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By: Chris Haugen https://bahaiteachings.org/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/#comment-39370 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:34:22 +0000 https://bahaiteachings.org/?p=52003#comment-39370 God was bored with the dark?

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