is the belief in reincarnation compatible...with christianity?

Question

i am a christian, but i also believe in reincarnation. There have been a lot of research about reincarnation at very prestigeous universities around the world and I think a lot of great minds of our time have come to accept this..we are energy and energy is never "used up," so what happens. Please respond--esp if you think about it the same way and also if you disgree--w/an unemotional rebuttal. thx

Answer 1

Of course it's compatible with Christianity. Perhaps you've read about Edgar Cayce. He was a devout Christian and bible expert who spread the message of reincarnation, backed up with bible verses.

One of the biggest attractions of Christianity and organized religion in general is its unconscious familiarity to persons who were acquainted with it in past lives. Religion in particular has a strong attraction to the reincarnated individual because religion embodies the concept of the eternal soul and the afterlife. Christianity especially appeals to persons who have a vague and muddled sense of having lived before -- this is why they seem to feel a mysteriously "this is so right" bond with Jesus Christ, why they feel in some inexplicable way (to themselves) that they feel his "presence." And it's not just memories of the church in past lives they're sensing; it's also the deep empathy they feel with the concepts of dying and being resurrected (as represented by Jesus and the Christian faith), down deep in their soul.

Devout Christians actually prove reincarnation through their mystical and magical devotion to the Christian religion. And I firmly believe they actually have a sense of having lived before, but they're too afraid it's the devil whispering in their ear to actually open their minds to the truth of it.

Judaism has always been open to the concept of reincarnation. In his writings, Josephus, a Jewish historian contemporary of the disciples, casually mentioned reincarnation, which was understood among the Jews of the time. And Jesus was an Essene rabbi; Essenes were vegetarian healers who taught reincarnation.

It's a fact that leaders the early Christian church made a concerted effort to modify or re-interpret or delete scriptural references to rebirth -- obviously they wanted exclusive control over the fate of their sheep, which the doctrine of "truly, literally, you must be born again" would have placed in jeopardy.

You are a wise person to be able to keep your faith and expand it to open new doorways of truth. Most people (as you see here) are too afraid to open their eyes all the way.

Answer 2

No, reincarnation is not compatible with Christian doctrine.

Reincarnation, or the transmigration of souls, is a New Age/ Buddhist doctrine, mainly understood as a kind of spiritual recycling. The human spirit, done with one life, goes through several different lives as different animals before becoming human again. The New Age/ Buddhist believer seeks to "escape" the cycle of reincarnation, so that he/she can become "one" with Brahman, or the All Soul.

Christianity is quite different! In Christian teaching, each individual is an original soul, not some energy thing transmigrated or transferred from another person or animal. Each person's life experience is their own; they have their own individuality, deeds, journey, consciousness, sins, good deeds, responsibilities. It is this individual who will one day stand before Almighty God for judgment, and hopefully mercy and grace. When our lives are over, we each will face God. There are NO second chances.

What happens with our individual "energies", or spirits/souls, as most Christians prefer, after death, is up to God's judgment of our earthly life. Those who accepted the Grace of God are welcomed Home, those who rejected it receive the Second Death, or "Hell". There are no "second chances", no "re-do"s, no reincarnations.

Christians look not for a "reincarnation", but a Resurrection: a change of the (decayed) human remains into another body that will "fit" in Heaven. Jesus was the first person truly resurrected, and not just revived, from death.

The Christian concept of "rebirth" is also not synonymous with reincarnation. Reincarnation is the physical birth of a new body with a recycled soul. Christian rebirth takes place within the body of an already-present believer; it is spiritual and soulical renewal.

Answer 3

reincarnation is lie, but a person will either spend eternity in heaven or hell one or the other, reincarnation is no where in the bible, study your bible and allow God to give you understanding becareful who you take advice from, just because it sounds good doesnt mean its right. be blessed. If it doesnt line up with the word of God throw it in the trash, the bible says wide is the road to destruction meaning, that there are many false ways such as reincartion, this does way with the Death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ if you really think about it, well if you have any other question be sure to emial , im free to share with you what i have learned and back it up with the word of God

Answer 4

Not according to the book of Hebrews. Take a look at 9:27-28:

27 Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Answer 5

Yes it does, It squashes that idea.
We all come from Heaven, and when we die in the flesh we go back to Heaven.
2Cr 5:8 We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.

There is no reincarnation. It is not logical.

Answer 6

No, It is not. You have one life to live. The whole energy is never used up is true and is not applicable to what you are talking about. You talk as if we as humans are physical beings with soul/spirits, wrong. We are spiritual beings wrapped in the physical.

P.S. God knows more about God than anyone at any "prestigious university"

Answer 7

How ought to the evil Roman Catholic Church administration their minions if the minions theory lack of existence wasn't the top of the existence. no one ought to pay the church for salvation or pay taxes to the divine King of england. They even may had even revolted to overthrow the church and the monarch to be free of it is suppression. to regulate populations, you ought to have them residing in worry, like eternal damnation in hell, or terrorist threats that are gauged by a simplistic coloration code 24/7 so even the dumbest ought to understand and be afraid.