Do You Believe In Reincarnation? I Do, Do You?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

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 3

Our soul starts its journey from chemicals, evolves in plants and animals and reaches Human beings. It has to undergo innumerable sufferings and pains and learn billions of lesson to prgoress towards its next evolutionary stage i.e. divinity.

And one life is not enough for all these lessons. That also is the reason behind differnt type of peoples..why some are born rich, some are born poor, some idiots some intelligent. Even two children of the same parents, in the same environment do not progress alike... Reincarnation is the answer !!

When we die, we die with a mental state, where we have some unfulfilled desires...some subtle some gross.

The soul after death passes to some astral worlds where it prepares for the next birth, where it can continue its progress towards its evolution (mental evo..not physical)...these astral planes' working is quite similar to hells and heavens mentioned by religions...but the main purpose of these astral planes is not to punish or reward but to work out our desires and prepare us for our next birth

Hell and heaven are tools of religions to keep uncivilised human into some check... for a little evolved minds it is astral planes for purging or working the subtle desires

We will continue to re-incarnate...till we are enlightened...which is melting into the supreme consciousness.

Answer 4

If I were to be buried in the ground without a coffin or left on the surface to decompose, the organisms that consume my formal shell for their nourishment would then take my energy away with them and spread it around- in a sense reincarnating my energy.

Otherwise, no.

Answer 5

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It is a valid and remarkably understandable theory .
too me one life???? and yet we are told the soul is eternal ,,,,IF you do this or that ......to believe in reincarnation it makes you more accountable for words and deeds done in your lifetime ,if more people would at least try to understand it they would actually get a lot of LIFE'S questions answered .
to me it is much more reason to improve myself and treat others justly ..........for the thought of coming back and having to learn the lesson through experience is truly disturbing to me ...........
if one takes this philosophy seriously it really eliminates harmful actions and makes one want to use free will in a right way ........
i simply can not buy that all you have to do is accept a savior and ted bundy is sitting up there waiting for me NO NO !
much better that he go right back into the flesh and have to learn the hard way [through being murdered or someone he loves in order to really understand what hell is ].
i could write a book on it but then there are already many wonderful ones out there to help explain it all .

Answer 6

I believe the cycle of violence and revenge that keeps us in the cycle of birth and rebirth is what we are here to escape from. That karma can be cleared much faster if we accept forgiveness in Jesus name and that He will pay off my debts to free me from the cycle and take me Home. Love/

Answer 7

It certainly makes a lot more sense than the 'one chance approach' - one chance and it is over after 2 months, because of SIDS.... does not make sense, nor does it make a strong case for a just god.....

Answer 8

I do not "Believe" in reincarnation.

I accept the reality that reincarnation is part of life.

Answer 9

It would be nice, but I think you only get so many spins around the sun before you croak. How would we explain population growth if all of us were here before?

Answer 10

Yes. Blessed be