Do you believe in REINCARNATION? What if we get to keep comming back?

Question

Besides, All Things Are Possible With God...Right?

Answer 1

I am a little wierd. I am a Christian, that believes Reincarnation is possible, but not the way it is typically explained.

The buddhist version of Reincarnation is that we keep coming back until we get it right.

I don't buy that, because Jesus paid for our sins in full. However, I think that God is wonderful and gave us brains and intelligence to use it. So, why would God give us this ability, only to develop it while we are on the earth? Or what about further spiritual development?

I think God allows us to come back, if we want to, to develop or work on things.

Hope that helps,
God Bless,
Vic

Answer 2

OMG I am amazed at the answers from 'believers' that say reincarnation is evil. It's not evil!!!. Consider it this way, if reincarnation is real (which I think so, and the Bible says it happens) then it would seem like school. You have to pass each grade, you get the summer off, then you go back to school, until you get through all the grades (or levels) in life, before you ever get to go to Heaven. You might be on your last life now, or you may be on your third. I don't know how many lifes there would be, some say hundreds even thousands. I can't say you come back as ann animal, but I guess it's possible. Some comme back because they have not learned all they need to learn in order to stop coming back, while others choose to come back to accompish something, or fulfill an obligation from their last lifetime.

Answer 3

In the classic sense of reincarnation, meaning we keep coming back to life until we learn to do it right..no.

If reincarnation was true then each time we return we would have learned something. We would be getting better... People would be more spiritual now that in earlier days. By the way I see it people have never been less spiritual in history!!!!

I do believe we have an eternal soul and that some people are more spiritual than others. I believe that the universe contains more than 3 dimensions, and that souls are able to use these extra dimensions. When some people claim to remember past lives, I believe their soul is only communicating with another soul.

Answer 4

Reincarnation.

Definition: The belief that one is reborn in one or more successive existences, which may be human or animal. Usually it is an intangible “soul” that is believed to be reborn in another body. Not a Bible teaching.

Does a strange feeling of being familiar with entirely new acquaintances and places prove reincarnation to be a fact?

Have you ever mistaken one man or woman who is alive for another who is also now living? Many have had that experience. Why? Because some people have similar mannerisms or may even look almost identical. 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, as drawn out under hypnosis, prove reincarnation?

Under hypnosis much information stored in the brain can be drawn out. Hypnotists tap the subconscious memory. But 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 under hypnosis the experience may be recalled as if you were remembering “another life.” Yet, if that were true, would not everyone have such memories? But not everyone does. It is noteworthy that an increasing number of state supreme courts in the United States do not accept hypnotically induced testimony. In 1980 the Minnesota Supreme Court declared that “the best expert testimony indicates that no expert can determine whether memory retrieved by hypnosis, or any part of that memory, is truth, falsehood, or confabulation—a filling of gaps with fantasy. Such results are not scientifically reliable as accurate.” (State v. Mack, 292 N.W.2d 764) The influence of suggestions made by the hypnotist to the one hypnotized is a factor in this unreliability.

Does the Bible contain evidence of belief in reincarnation?

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 5

Jeeze, I sure don't hope so!! To be reincarnated as a human, ok, but as a mosquito or eel or armadillo, yuk.

I don't believe in heaven and hell, either. Some humans think their precious selves are unique and immortal, so you just HAVE to get a second chance or there'll at least be universal justice in the end. Not very likely. But dream on, may save you from insanity.

Answer 6

I believe people who live long and fulfilling lives don't get reincarnated. I do believe those people can watch over us. Also I think people whose lives are cut short or did not use their life well are put back on earth in a different body to start over. Hope this helps you, I've been wondering a lot about it lately.

Answer 7

The concept of reincarnation really means that we can be reincarnated into any form of existences including angels or god. Really, god has been a human before he became god. And he will again reincarnate into any form of existence after he has enjoyed all his blessing in heaven, which is a very long time, like millions of years.

Answer 8

there are no second chances? god is a god of second chances just look at the story of Jonah. ghosts are, for the most part people that haven't moved on (accepted the truth). i have been told by a number of psychics that i was a ninja in 2 lives and a shoulin priest in 1. i have also been asked by 3 black belts who my teacher was, 2 where teachers themselves. i have not been trained in martial arts. so yes i do be leave

Answer 9

No i don't,b coz every body just has the only one soul. after death we will never get back.our next place and last home will be Heaven or Hell and we will live there forever and for always. But that's true ,God can do anything.God is the only Perfect power.But REINCARNATION is not god's purpose.

Answer 10

Yes I believe; there is no way to get things right the first time so we come back and try again until we do!