How many believe in reincarnation?

Question

I'm a God fearing Christian, but I often wonder about the confusion in regards to judgement day, purgatory, heaven & hell. I'm beginning to think that maybe purgatory is reliving your life on earth over and over until you get it right...which is hopefully before the 2nd coming of Christ and judgement day.

Answer 1

I believe in reincarnation.

Answer 2

I have often grappled with this question, especially when the Jews thought John the Baptizer was Elijah reincarnate. I think it's certainly possible & I've found some evidence in the Bible that may allow for it. Either way I'm not too concerned about it. If there is reincarnation in Christianity, I believe that the final step in the life cycle would be accepting Jesus as savior, so either way I believe I'm going to heaven this time. Of course as always I reserve the right to be wrong.

Answer 3

I believe in reincarnation. My view on it is a bit different from the traditional view of reincarnation. I believe we have control over when we come back, where we come back to. I do not believe we are at the mercy of "karma". However, this is just my view.

Answer 4

To get a good understanding of reincarnation perhaps you need to read the Bhagvad Gita

Answer 5

I do!!

I believe that after this physical incarnation ends we return to the spiritual dimension and decide if we want to stay there or experience another physical incarnation, and that it can either be the same one we just experienced, or another one. Either on earth or in another dimension/world. And yes, I believe in life on other planets too! :)

Answer 6

very interesting theory. I never thought about it in that way. Could be a great basis for a book or movie.

I hope I get it right sometime the first time around.

Answer 7

I recently remembered a month ago my first past life recall. I remembered living in India as a woman from another country. I had studied many religions and spirituality. I ended up chosing Hinduism as my religion to study seriously on my spiritual path.

While living in India, I studied under a woman guru named Parvati. I remembered this temple that had this giant monkey statue on the outside.

I had to leave the ashram for a couple of days, Parvati was asking me some medicine-related questions if I was prepared and had them.

On the way travelling, I got horribly sick with a dreadful disease. It was smallpox. My entire body was mummified. A man carried me to the doctor's. It was not modern at all. Kind of primative. This was during WWI. He poured water on my body that was wrapped up in white cloth, I screamed like bloody h*ll. Blood seeped through the cloth. I was above watching the whole thing.

I did not feel anything, but I felt a lot of compassion for my past self and for the horrible suffering she was going through. I felt it was so unnecessary. They also put me against the wall to circulate my . My eyes were covered up too. Parvati, my guru, came to visit me as she was given word that I was dying.

My last words spoken were "Brahman of all things". I had my mind focused on God when I died which is very important for your next life.

This life, I'm just a white from CA but I ended up feeling at home with Hinduism after studying spiritualy and religions for 17 years. I am picking up where I left off. Amma is now my Satguru in this life. She is helping me finish my journey to God-Realization in this life. I do eventually want to live the rest of my life in India in her ashram. This past life recall helped me understand who I am in this life by explaining how I ended up on this journey and plus that disease helped wipe clean some bad karma as I hardly too much bad karma to work through in this life. It was quite insightful.

Here's a good quote that explains it well:

"All our continuous ups and downs coming into this world and going out, birth and death, are due to our karma, and the necessity of accepting the reaction to our actions. We can't escape from it. Once an action is done, either we face the reaction in this life itself or we may have to take another body to do it. It is the reaction that binds us to take it, the reaction that uses a body and makes us experience it." --Swami Satchidananda

Answer 8

i dont believe in reincarnation and its cool if other ppl do but whatever i was raised up as a muslim believing heaven and hell

Answer 9

Yes I believe in it, not 100% but it seems to make sense scientifically, at least what I know so far about it.

http://www.childpastlives.org/
http://www.returnfromheaven.com/
http://www.justbegood.net/More%20Questions.htm#Kamma%20and%20rebiirth

I'm not a christian though, because that doesn't seem to make sense.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/imposs.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~slocks/buckner/tough.html
http://www.truthbeknown.com/index101.htm
http://exchristian.net/

Answer 10

Not me. There's absolutely no logically justifiable reason to believe that you are anything more than your physical body, and therefore no reason to believe that you can survive your physical death. When you die, you simply cease to exist, so there's nothing to worry about.