Do you believe in reincarnation? If so, who do you think you might have been?

Question

I think I might have been a Kennedy.

Answer 1

Reincarnation is true and you are not privilege to know who you were or who you will be.

Answer 2

So the feeling that you know a person even though you never met him before really does not prove that you were acquainted with him in a former life, does it?
Why might a house or a town seem familiar to you if you have never been there before? Is it because you lived there during a former life? Many houses are built according to similar designs. Furniture used in cities far apart may be produced from similar patterns. And is it not true that the scenery in some widely separated places looks very much alike? So, without resorting to reincarnation, your feeling of familiarity is quite understandable.

Do recollections of life at another time in another place prove reincarnation?

How did those memories get there? Perhaps you read a book, saw a motion picture, or learned about certain people on television. If you put yourself in the place of the people about whom you were learning, it might have made a vivid impression, almost as if the experience were your own. What you actually did may have been so long ago that you have forgotten it, but after a while the experience may be recalled as if you were remembering “another life.”

Does the Bible contain evidence of belief in reincarnation?

Does the Bible’s teaching about the soul and death allow for reincarnation?

Genesis 2:7 states: “Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” Notice that the man himself was the soul; the soul was not immaterial, separate and distinct from the body. “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die.” (Ezekiel 18:4, 20) And a deceased person is referred to as a “dead soul.” (Numbers 6:6.) At death, “his spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” (Psalms 146:4-5) So when someone dies, the complete person is dead; there is nothing that remains alive and that could pass into another body.

Eccl. 3:19: “There is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies.” (As in the case of humans, nothing survives at the death of an animal. There is nothing that can experience rebirth in another body.)

Eccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.” (It is not into another body but into Sheol, the common grave of mankind, that the dead go.)

How much of a difference is there between reincarnation and the hope held out in the Bible?

Reincarnation: According to this belief, when a person dies, the soul, the “real self,” passes on to a better existence if the individual has lived a good and proper life, but possibly to existence as an animal if his record has been more bad than good. Each rebirth, it is believed, brings the individual back into this same system of things, where he will face further suffering and eventual death. The cycles of rebirth are viewed as virtually endless. Is such a future really what awaits you? Some believe that the only way of escape is by extinguishing all desire for things pleasing to the senses. To what do they escape? To what some describe as unconscious life.

Bible: According to the Bible, the soul is the complete person. Even though a person may have done bad things in the past, if he repents and changes his ways, Jehovah God will forgive him. (Psalms 103:12, 13.) When a person dies, nothing survives. Death is like a deep, dreamless sleep. There will be a resurrection of the dead. This is not a reincarnation but a bringing back to life of the same personality. (Acts 24:15) For most people, the resurrection will be to life on earth. It will take place after God brings the present wicked system to its end. Sickness, suffering, even the necessity to die, will become things of the past. (Daniel 2:44; Revelation 21:3, 4) Does such a hope sound like something about which you would like to learn more, to examine the reasons for confidence in it?

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Answer 3

Reincarnation is silly. It doesn't happen. People believe it to passify their conscience, that if they screw up in this life they will have another chance later. If reincarnation was true, and your life you have now is connected to the life you had before, when was the first life. Or is life eternal? Always was and always will be. Science has proven the world is slowing down and wearing out, so it can't be eternal. There is however a God in heaven that will Judge every man according to his works here on earth, and everyone according to there own merit will be guilty. God sees lust as adultry, and hatred as murder. He is holy and there is nothing you can do to merit his favour. Once this life is over your chances are through. Accept Jesus and get saved from the wrath to come.

Answer 4

I think reincarnation is a possibility. I'm not sure if I believe in it 100% but I do think it is possible.

If reincarnation is real, I think I may have been a cat at one time. And possible an Ancient Egyptian.

Answer 5

Personally I do not believed in re-incarnation. This is the teaching of the religion of the Hindu. The scripture is clear about this, the physical man "Die but once, then judgment" There is no second chance. Here in the physical world, chances has been given to men for them to repent of things that is abominable unto God.

Do remember also that there is Death after Life, meaning to say that resurrection come in 2-ways, Resurrection to eternal life or Resurrection to damnation. The scripture does not say "Eternal Torture" but, "Eternal destruction to the wicked" That's way in the book of revelation it mentioned "They are remembered no more"

Answer 6

Reincarnation is very interesting and can be compared to the concept of resurrection. I think these ideas comes from the nature and the cyclic nature of all things...spring, summer, autumn, winter...and so on.

Answer 7

Reincarnation goes against the Bible's teaching of the resurrection. You can't have both.

Answer 8

With my luck, in a past life I was probably a persecuted "witch" in Salem or a duck. LOL

I don't necessarily believe in reincarnation though. I lean more towards the idea that once your dead, your simply dead. No pearly gates, no new life to experience, no hellfire and brimstone...no ducks. LOL

Answer 9

Yes i do and i was a fox a hawk a wolverine, the empress of New Zeland, a homeless girl in England, a tasmanian tiger, an angel, i lived in Japan France and South America too.

Answer 10

I think I might have been a toad.
Croak...croak...
Actually, I don't believe in reincarnation.
I hope you don't think you're TED Kennedy. (shudder)