Why would Christians Deny reincarnation??

Question

When christanity was first getting started reincarnation was part of it. Chriatin values are fine but at what point did christanity take the path of truth to the lies in history. Who would follow a God that would burn someone for eternity for making the wrong desisions. That god sure as hell wont be my god.

Answer 1

Your perception is learn-ed and correct, the point in which the Christian leaders removed the science of reincarnation from the teachings of the church, was in 553 A D, the Roman emperor Justinian at the 5th Ecumenical council at Constantinople altered the doctrine for political purposes.

The question of motivation was simply a "scare tactic" to induce compliance to church doctrine and maintain social order, after a few generations, the development of these politically motivated alterations are forgotten and the original knowledge becomes covered by impurity.

I recommend that you purchase a copy of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is, translated from Sanskrit into English by HDG A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the knowledge contained in this book has been passed down unadulterated in a chain of disciplic succession for 5,000 years, it is the purest knowledge and the king of education, which provides direct perception of the self by realisation, it is the perfection of religion, is everlasting and is joyfully performed.

It is unfortunate that Christians in the western world are divided into so many various groups, sects and modern day cults, as there is no concise singular interpretation of Biblical philosophy.

With no real knowledge, even of the most basic wisdom, which is the difference between relative material energy and the living entity, the spirit soul, some foolish doomsday cults even consider the material body to be the soul, such gross ignorance is accepted by primitive religionists and promoted broadly.

In Bhagavad Gita, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, God himself, presents the unadulterated knowledge by which the living entity can be free of superficial mental speculations conceived of by mundane religionists who falsely claim piety whilst promoting falsehoods, including the mis-interpretation of the science of reincarnation, what to speak of liberation from material bondage.


For further discussion:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 2

That was never included in the Christian doctrine ever. You guys show so much ignorance because you won't look things up and study before you ask such foolish questions.


What you see is not as real as God. What you see should prove to you their is a God. If you try and tell me we just became without a creator then you need to go rethink some things. Ask an athiest How the whole universe came about to exist and I mean every galaxy and every star, also the ones still forming. Ask how the earth has one set speed it turns and one set speed to rotate around the sun. Also the sun is just at the right distance for life to be sustained here on earth which includes billions of diverse lifeforms (That according to athiest just popped out of nowhere or crawled out of the Ocean). Where did the Ocean come from then?. Also ask them to get an empty glass and set it up in their house and go back to the glass 20 or 30 years or more if needed and see whats in it..........you know what would be in it? Still nothing. You have to have a Creator and it scares them. Also for the big bang theory supporters........where did the material that went bang come from and the energy to make it go BANG? I'll tell you God created it and he may have made a "BIG BANG" out of it to put it where he wanted it. I won't dispute that because the Universe is still expanding. All in all the athiests have to many questians to explain themselves that the Bible already explains. I'd rather believe there is a God and die and if there isn't I lose nothing but if there is and I've argued to people he isn't then I would lose alot. Think it over friend. Are you really sure about denying God?

Answer 3

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?

If you would like further information or a free home Bible study, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 4

I agree. A god that could burn people for eternity simply because they didn't believe in an invisible being is not a loving god.

Reincarnation seems to me to be the most likely way for souls to continue after death.

Answer 5

Christians don't denied something that's false and non-existence.
You are looking for another path instead of accepting the paths that has been set before you. Choose whom this day who will u serve -God or mammon therefore you have chosen mammon which puts you where you feel is wrong. Make the right decisions and you will make the right path to God.

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Answer 6

All references of reincarnation were taken out of the bible by king james and his editors. The path of christianity losing its direction has been an ongoing battle for lack of a better word. and the current "version" of christianity is nothing more than fairy tales and a call to nationalism to fight terrorism. Read the bible for yourself, develop a relationship with and between you and God and He will open your eyes to the truth.

Answer 7

It has nothing to with making wrong decisions,because then we would all burn. None of us are perfect. As the Bible says "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."
It is the rejection of the prophets, He sent, plus the rejection that Christ came to die for our sins, in order to reconcile us to God the Father, by taking our sins upon Himself. By grace we are saved, to reject same is the same as rejection the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour. Therefore Christ conquered death for us, and anyone who believes in Him He will also lead through the valley of death, we will be given a new body and sin will have no more dominion over us. I think everyone who rejects the grace of God as His free gift, or despised to hear His Word, will be tormented for eternity. not burn

Answer 8

I will pray for you. I do not want anyone to go to hell. Everyone that does wrong needs to be punished. The way you put your argument is like telling a parent to not correct there child. Reach out to God. he is there waiting for you.

Answer 9

i am not sure i understand your question but if i do then i think answer regarding "when did christianity take path or truth to the lies in history" could best be answered by researching who translated bible.

Answer 10

"Its not any more unlikely to be born twice
Than it is to be born once."

"Burning in Hell" is a corruption of the idea of a body being burned in the city garbage pit , rather than being interred properly. This idea was powerful to the Jews of Christ's time.