2006-07-26 17:03:50 · 9 answers · asked by smitty 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Judaism doesn't teach that there's a place of eternal punishment... that should be a clue to Christians that something got added in the translation from the Judaism of Jesus to the Christianity of Paul and the Greeks (who had long believed in Hades).
There is no such thing as hell, and buying into that disgusting lie is maligning to the true 'God'. It's a primitive and sick supersition of the ancient Roman and Greek mythologies which considered volcanoes and lava flow to be doorways to the abode of the evil dead.
Judaism teaches reincarnation. Josephus, a Jewish historian who lived around the time of Jesus, wrote about reincarnation as known fact. Jesus taught it factually, as an Essene rabbi, but the early Catholic/Christian church simply deleted or re-translated -- and made it a heresy to believe -- verses about reincarnation and karma. They even rewrote parts of the OT to suit them, as history verifies.
Reincarnation is a law of God. It requires no faith to work, it requires no recollection or awareness on the part of the reincarnated -- it just is. Like science and physics and all cosmic laws, rebirth is a law of a God, 'who' is the cosmos -- that eternal, intelligent, non-judgmental energy whence we came and of which we are all a part.
2006-07-27 04:05:24 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
You speak of more than one religion here. Reincarnation is part of Hinduism and some of its offshoots. Hell is on earth in a sense. If you live a virtuous life, you move up to the next caste when you are reincarnated. If you don't, you move down and may become a lower animal. A virtuous Brahmin passes on to Nirvana. It is a great system to have as many chances as you need. In Christianity, you only have one, and the Heaven and Hell often portrayed are both undesirable. Tom Sawyer told Aunt Polly that he didn't want to float on a cloud playing a harp forever. I'd rather have the 72 houris Moslem Paradise offers. Oh well, this is all daydreaming. Heaven, Hell, Sheol, Nirvana, Hades and the 72 houris are all fiction. That is best really!
2006-07-27 00:19:38 · answer #2 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in heaven only. And about 50% of reincarnation.
2006-07-27 00:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by Jennifer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in an afterlife, a heaven and hell yes. But no reincarnaiton. That would be hell to come back here again.
2006-07-27 00:11:34 · answer #4 · answered by Ven 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in heaven, but not hell. I believe that I'm a cyclic being- I believe in reincarnation.
2006-07-27 00:09:28 · answer #5 · answered by mischa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven - Yes
Hell and Reincarnation - I haven't made up my mind.
2006-07-27 00:08:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ereshkigal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the answers are in the Holy Bible. There is definitely a Heaven and a Hell. We live once and are then judged.
Once!
2006-07-27 00:07:52 · answer #7 · answered by winkcat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in life that never ends. In our afterlife I believe we are our own judges and when we have done some really horrible stuff in this life, that it haunts us in our transition time after death, and that is what hell is, but we can come out of it and learn from it and repeat our lives til we get it right.
2006-07-27 00:13:29 · answer #8 · answered by Mandalawind 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Catholic. I believe in heaven and hell. And purgatory.
2006-07-27 00:09:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋