Confirmation by experience

A Baha'i knows by investigation and confirmed by experience that true religion is the fruit of the Creative Word

"A Bahá'í ... knows as the result of rational investigation, confirmed by actual experience, that true religion, far from being the product solely of human striving after truth, is the fruit of the Creative Word of God which, with divine power, transforms human thought and action ... "

(Research Department, Scholarship, "Misunderstanding About Religion")

See also

• Community#Community as laboratory
• Proofs#Need to know proofs not merely through susceptibilities

To-dos for this page

• See if there are other quotations encouraging testing of reality of (not through original investigation of the Faith, but to know things for oneself rather than merely accepting on Faith)
• Find quote on how living in community is more of a demonstration of spiritual fidelity than retiring away to a monastery, etc.