Define reincarnation?

Answer 1

The belief that upon ones death one begins life again in another body on the same plane of existence, either as another person or as a lifeform such as an animal and that this is a continuous cycle with a possible out by a divine-like experience or realisation of one's self.

Answer 2

Definition Of Reincarnation

Answer 3

Reincarnation Definition

Answer 4

It is known that the Egyptians believed in reincarnation or the transmigration of the soul. They thought the soul transmigrated from body to body and this was a reason why they embalmed the body in order to preserve it so that it could journey along with ka, an animating force that was believed to be counterpart of the body, which would accompany it in the next world or life. Ka might be considered equivalent to the term of soul. This establishes the dating of the concept of reincarnation back to the ancient Egyptian religion but many think it dates beyond antiquity.

The belief is thought to have been an necessity among primitive peoples. Certainly long before ancient Egypt peoples believed in transmigration of the soul. If they were not sophisticated enough to understand the concept of a soul, then they may have simply called it life. An individual or object which moved had life, and the one which did not, did not have life. This is analogous to the belief of animism.

Gradually the concept of a soul developed with a further realization that the soul departed the body at death and entered the body at birth. Soon it was thought the soul leaving a dead body would seek another body to enter, or enter an animal of a lower life form. It was also thought the soul left the body during sleep. This soul was pictured as vapors that entered and left through the nostrils and mouth.

Later grew the notion the soul transmigrated to an infant of one of dead person's kin. This helped to explain family resemblances.

The terms reincarnation and transformation of the soul, especially when applied to humans, are about synonymous. However reincarnation is not accurately synonymous with either metamorphosis or resurrection. Metamorphosis is roughly the changing of one life form into another life form. Resurrection, in the Christian sense, means the rising again of the body after death.

Answer 5

Personal responsibility.

No need for a scapegoat or a whipping boy. No bargaining for a lighter sentence. No ritual or dress code or peer judgment.

Just experiencing EVERY aspect of life in all ways, learning all that there is to learn by experience. We will be all manner of people and be in all situations before we are finished with our incarnations.

If we cause someone to lose a limb we may be born without one, or have a child lose a limb in order to fully understand what we have caused. If we are lazy in one life we may find ourselves as a quadriplegic who would love to move and do work but cannot. The balance is perfect. There is perfect accounting and in the end, full and perfect understanding because we have walked a mile in all the shoes there are, understanding the things that really matter.

Then we are (hopefully) enlightened enough to return 'home', join with God and stop the cycle of rebirth.

(There are variations on the idea, as in all spiritual beliefs. From my understanding reincarnation is a belief held by most, if not all religions of the world except Christianity, although many find validation for the belief in the bible.)

Answer 6

Reincarnation happens already in one's lifetime:where is your body as embryo?As 1 yr old?7 yr old?
As the body cells are constantly changing-scientific-including bone cells,blood,skin etc...that is they die! So what is it that is always alive?It's called the soul..and when the whole body dies,in accident or old age,that soul,that was present in the spermatozoon of your father-and which developped into your body gradually by contact with your mother's ovum,is always alive,before and after death!
And you get a new body,according to your merits in this lifetime,including animals' for plants' bodies....

Answer 7

Literally, it means "becoming flesh again" (as in "the Word became flesh" in John 1). More generally, it simply means "rebirth". It is mostly used in the sense that a soul leaves a body at death and enters another at its birth (in chronological order). However, this supposes there is something ("the Word", "a soul") that exists apart from the body. The Buddha denied this, saying:

"The teaching of karma [cause and effect] is undisputed, but the theory of the ego has no basis. Just as everything else in nature, the life of man is subject to the law of cause and effect. The present reaps what the past has sown and the future is the product of the past. But there is no proof of the existence of an immutable ego-being, of a self that remains the same and travels from body to body. There is reincarnation, but no transmigration of souls."
[Sayings of Buddha.]

What, then, is reincarnation if there is no transmigration of souls? The literal rebirth of the parents in their children. - But what is it that reincarnates here? Basically, it is their genes (which *are* mutable: genes can mutate). And what are genes? Information. Of course, there are other ways to pass through information to the next generation. One's parents and other educators will do so. So one can also have "spiritual parents". Thus, if I feel a spiritual kinship with, for instance, a great philosopher, and continue his work by first appropriating his thoughts and then thinking them through, perhaps to new conclusions, I can be said to be, in part, his reincarnation. And if I save my thoughts and conclusions, for instance in books, I can become the spiritual parent of a new generation. For on the one hand, it is as Aldous Huxley says:

"Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves."
[The Doors of Perception.]

But on the other hand, it is as Nietzsche says:

"Every style is good which actually communicates an inner state"
[Ecce Homo, Why I Write Such Good Books, 4.]

Thus music can bring the listener into a state similar to the one in which the composer composed it. But the same goes for genetic information. One can have atavistic experiences, which are sometimes interpreted as memories from past lives. Of course, the transmitter always presupposes a receiver who can make sense of the transmitted information. So there must already be a certain degree of similarity between the "parent" and the "child" - *physiological* similarity (for the brain, too, is a bodily organ). Thus one species of animal can only understand the genetical information of another species if the species are similar (I am thinking of tions and lygers here). The same goes for "spiritual" information.

Answer 8

You are first a child, then grow old and drop the body, but you never die and never were born. In the East, Vedantists believe in reincarnation, in innumerable births and deaths, until one attains Godhood. The Muslims believe in one birth only and one death only. The Christians and the Zoroastrians the same. All are right. But Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Zoroaster all meant what I mean by real birth and real death. I say you are born once and die once.

All the so-called births and deaths are only sleeps and wakings. The difference between sleep and death is that when you sleep you awake and find yourself in the same body; but after death you awake in a different body. You never die. Only the blessed ones die and become one with God.

Answer 9

If a person believes in God and the Bible, he believes that when he or she dies that their soul will either go to Heaven or Hell(wheather or not they are saved ) Reincarnation means that when you die, you come back as something else or someone else besides who you are now!

Answer 10

REINCARNATION & YOGA EXPOSED

The Lord Jesus Christ taught that we live only once (Matthew 25:46) and that Salvation is found only through Him (John 6:35; John 8:12; John 14:6; John 10:9-11). The Bible does not teach the false doctrine of reincarnation. The doctrine of reincarnation is a cleaver lie of Satan who wants to deceive us into thinking that we could achieve salvation and liberation through our works/deeds and not by our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ (the 2nd Person of the Triune Godhead) never taught or mentioned reincarnation. Some believe that in Matthew 11:7-14, Jesus meant that the prophet Elijah reincarnated as John the Baptist. Jesus called John the Baptist Elijah because John the Baptist came in the “spirit and power of Elijah”. The Bible is very clear on this:

Luke 1:17
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

In addition, John the Baptist himself specifically said he was not Elijah:

John 1:21
And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you that prophet? And he answered, No.

The Holy Spirit (the 3rd Person of the Triune Godhead) said that many would fall for doctrines of demons (1 Timothy 4:1) and reincarnation is definitely a demonic doctrine. Demons are fallen angels and spirits of Nephilim. These beings make up Satan’s army and are bent on leading humans to destruction.

Persons who claim they were having memories of past lives are either not telling the truth or were actually receiving visions from evil spirits who have been around for thousands of years.

Demons implant memories in the minds of humans to make them believe in reincarnation, one of Satan’s key deceptions. A demon who lived in the body of a certain person, shared the same experiences and memories of that person. If that demon enters another person, that demon can transfer their memories to their new host. If the person doesn’t know the truth, they will think that they had lived previous lives. Demons can gain the right of way to enter a person when they practice sin. Allowing oneself to be hypnotized, taking drugs and practicing yoga are easy ways to becoming possessed by evil spirits. Demons can also enter an unborn foetus if one or both parents have unrepented sin.

Reincarnation is a false teaching – humans are given only one physical life (Hebrews 9:27). The Lord Jesus said that the human being’s afterlife state whether torment or paradise, will be eternal (Matthew 25:46). In the original text, the Greek word for eternal, “aiōnion” is used. He didn’t say that we would be born again and again until we got it right and received liberation. He would not have made that huge sacrifice for us if we could have had unity to God another way, and if there was another way, He would have taught that. The Lord said He could have employed legions of angels to prevent His crucifixion (Matthew 26:53), but because of His great and perfect love for humanity, He chose to endure a very painful death so we could be redeemed and united to God. Those who die having faith in Jesus as their Saviour will go on to eternal paradise with God (Matthew 25:46; Luke 23:42-43; Romans 10:9; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Revelation 21, 22) and those who die without having faith in Jesus as their Saviour will go on to eternal torment (Matthew 25:46; John 3:18, 36; Luke 12:5; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Revelation 20:10-15; Revelation 21:8).

A Look at the Word, "Aionion"
https://carm.org/look-word-aionion

What It Means to Be Born Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLuZpXipO2s

Yogic doctrines hold that there is “serpent energy” called kundalini located at the base of the human spine and this energy can be caused through yoga to rise to the brain to result in “God-realization”. Yogis believe that once this alleged state of God-Realization is achieved by an individual, she or he no longer needs to reincarnate. The truth is kundalini does not naturally reside within humans. Kundalini is actually a type of demonic entity which can gain entry into a human if the human practices yoga. I’ve already proven that reincarnation is false.

Shiva, one of the 3.3 million Hindu deities gave the doctrines of yoga to mankind. Shiva is called "lord of yoga" by the Hindus. He is also known as "lord of the third eye", "lord of the lingam (male sex organ)" “god of this world” and "god of destruction". As Christians we know that the “god of this world” and “god of destruction” is Satan (2 Corinthians 4:4; John 10:10). Shiva and Satan are the same being.

Satan likes to counterfeit God’s truths and he even has a counterfeit salvation – which is yoga. Kundalini (which is actually a type of demon) is the COUNTERFEIT Holy Spirit and the Siddhis are the COUNTERFEIT gifts of the Holy Spirit. Yoga was designed by Satan to put humans in contact with the Hindu deities (demons). Faith in Jesus as one’s Saviour puts one in union with God while yoga puts one in union with Shiva or another demon.

Yogis believe that the spirit of the human being is God but this is false. The human being has a physical body, soul and spirit. The spirit of a human being isn’t God but needs God. It is where one receives God when they accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour. Where the “S” in spirit is capitalized in the Bible, it refers to the Holy Spirit who is the third person of the triune Godhead. After one accepts Christ, the Holy Spirit (not their spirit) brings life to them (Romans 8:10). In Zechariah 12:1, we see that God formed the spirit of humans within them. As soon as one accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, the Holy Spirit takes up residence within their spirit making them a true child of God (Romans 8:15-16). The Holy Spirit enables us to have a spiritual understanding of the things of God (1 Corinthians 2:11).

Yogis and many users of entheogens mistake altered states of consciousness for Godly experiences. They erroneously attribute to these states such terms as God-Realization, Self-Realization, Enlightenment, Illumination, Unitive Knowledge of the Divine, Reentering the Kingdom and Reintegration.

DMT (dimethyltryptamine) is a hallucinogen found naturally in the mammalian brain. DMT can also be extracted from certain plants. Deep and prolonged practice of yoga causes the brain to release DMT and this induces altered states of consciousness, hallucinations and feelings of bliss. Individuals who consume or inject themselves with DMT derived from external sources achieve the same altered states and feelings as yogis who spend long years in yogic practices.

Many pagan mystics have believed and taught that Jesus practiced yoga and achieved enlightenment. The Lord Jesus Christ never supported yogic doctrines. Jesus is by nature God and the 2nd Person of the Triune Godhead which is made up of Adonai, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Because Jesus, unlike humans, is by nature God, He has full authority over all demons and creatures and was able to offer His body and blood to atone for the sins of mankind so we could by faith have unity to God.

The truth about Jesus Christ can be found only in the Holy Bible. Three days after the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, He resurrected from the dead (Luke 24:1-8; Acts 10:40; 1 Corinthians 15:4) and 40 days later, He ascended into Heaven (Acts 1:3; Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-11).

Without God, the spiritual part of the human being is dead (Ephesians 2:5, Colossians 2:13). The sin of our first parents (Adam and Eve) caused the separation between God and man. Romans 6:23 says the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Sin causes us to be separated from God which results in spiritual death. Christ, the 2nd Person of the Triune Godhead was made flesh (through the immaculate conception) and paid the price for our sins by dying on the cross so we could through faith in Christ as our Saviour be instantly redeemed and united to God and have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit who teaches us, comforts us and grants us fruits to live in righteousness and gifts to help and edify the Church. There is no redemption or unity to God apart from receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as one’s Saviour and Lord.

A PERSON BECOMES A CHRISTIAN THROUGH FAITH. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as one's Saviour is the ONLY WAY one can receive CLEANSING OF SINS (1 John 1:7), REDEMPTION (Ephesians 1:7), ADOPTION BY GOD (Romans 8:15), THE INFILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, the 3rd Person of the Triune Godhead (John 14:26; 1 Corinthians 6:19), SANCTIFICATION (Hebrews 13:12; 1 Corinthians 1:2), JUSTIFICATION (1 Corinthians 6:11), TRANSFORMATION (2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Hebrews 9:12-14; Titus 3:5) and SALVATION (Romans 10:9; Revelation 21:8).

PRAYER TO ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR

"Dear Jesus, I am a sinner. I repent of my sins. Please forgive me and save me by Your shed blood. Come into my heart. I want to receive You as my own personal Lord and Saviour. Amen"

Powerful Repentance and Deliverance Prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF4i4b4zOnI

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND OTHER ANCIENT NON CHRISTIAN SOURCES PROVE THE VALIDITY OF THE BIBLE:

http://www.westarkchurchofchrist.org/library/extrabiblical.htm

https://www.probe.org/the-dead-sea-scrolls/

FULFILLED PROPHECIES ALSO PROVE THE BIBLE IS RELIABLE:

Fulfilled Prophecy: Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible by Dr. Hugh Ross
http://www.believers.org/hughross.htm

JESUS IN EVERY BOOK OF THE BIBLE
http://www.jesusplusnothing.com/jesus66books.htm

THE TRIUNE GODHEAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJUWnt07FQM

SEQUENCE OF END-TIME EVENTS IN BIBLE PROPHECY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMsvk3FEkWk&feature=youtu.be

https://victoryinjesuschrist.wordpress.com/