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The Jergens experiements of the early 1970s suggest the possibility. They show the statistical likelihood that an electron can cease to express itself here and reemerge anywhere in the universe. If it is true for that deep level of natures functioning...

But for humans, how would one demonstrate such a thing? Memories of previous lives only suggest some connection with another person, not necessarily identity.

And some of the people above are incorrect. While modern Christianity does not accept reincarnation, it is suggested in the Bible.

John 9:1 "And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth."

John 9:2 "And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?"

It does not matter how Jesus answers this question. Since the man was "born blind' the question has no meaning without the concept of reincarnation.

2006-09-06 10:52:28 · answer #1 · answered by neil s 7 · 1 0

I need no proof to know it is real..real with me, for I have know since I was a kid. AS far as religions go, it does NOT behove Christian churches to support reincarnation...reduces the daily dollar on the collection plate. Until the 13th centruy, reincarnation was accepted in the Catholic church as a give...but then, the church realized that people would sin less if the thought they had only one go around, so the story changed. Actually, the church still believes it, but it is sort of a quiet thing held deep within the intellectia of the Jesuits. Most religions have some kind of rebirth built into them. Hindus base their entire lives around the concept, and there are many more Hindus than Christians.

2006-09-06 17:20:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

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

2006-09-06 20:44:03 · answer #3 · answered by Jeremy Callahan 4 · 1 0

Catholics do not accept this and many other christian faith. They are more inclined to believe in the ressurection on judgement day. there has been a lot of stories you can find about experiences in reincarnation but there are more to know from the Tibetan Monks lives. There are Hindu sources for that matter not just lecture and claim those as strong proof.

2006-09-06 17:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0 0

There is no "proof" of reincarnation. It is simply a belief system held by some religions. It is prominent in certain caste systems as people believe that they are born into specific castes or classes. The only way to move up into another class is to be born into it. Buddhism also belives in reincarnation and believes that each incarnation is dependent upon the karma of the lifetime before. Good karma can lead to a better life where as bad karma can lead you back into a less desirable life.

2006-09-06 17:20:58 · answer #5 · answered by Rance D 5 · 1 0

You know within yourself. Orthodox Christianity does not accept reincarnation, for political reasons. Read more on this on page "What is Spirituality" on the Dhaxem website, and read "Rational Spirituality", as well, if you want to understand the truth. But take your time, the latter is not an easy read.

2006-09-09 16:14:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Christians generally do not accept the idea of reincarnation. There is interesting evidence for it, but no real proof.

2006-09-06 17:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Hindus believe in reincarnation. I am a hindu too but do not nelieve it really but then once in a while there are these wierd news on the TV about someone who rmemebered his previous in which he was murdered and then in the new life, when the murderer was still alive he (the guy who remmebered his previous life) had the murderer arrested.
Another one about a German girl (2 years old) who spoke Greek when none of her family spoke Greek.
Just a thought..... now you decide

2006-09-06 17:21:43 · answer #8 · answered by skepty 3 · 0 0

No proof at all, dubious hypnosis experiments. I beleive it is only Hinduism that accepts reincarnation, the premise is that you do it till you get it right, and there is no expection that you will ever get it right.

2006-09-06 17:31:49 · answer #9 · answered by Dane 6 · 0 0

Have you ever had a dream that was so real and vivid you could smell and touch everything. The colors were so vivid. And when you awoke you had no clue where you were? Some religions very those dreams as part of our past live and we were seeing it in our dreams. I believe in past life experiences....But that is just me

Blessings

2006-09-06 17:18:59 · answer #10 · answered by mysticalmoon1975 3 · 0 0

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