does reincarnation offer more hope than Resurrection?

Question

for instance we love all of our family and friends but according to some mainstream religions unless a person follow the correct faith they are going to hell, surely god expects us to love our family etc,why would he save some believers giving them paridise on earth while unbelievers are condemed to eternal damanation,how does he expect us to live with the knowlege that people we love are suffering in hell

Answer 1

I'm going for the reincarnation. I would like to come back as the riches person in the world.

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?

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 3

Reincarnation involves all life forms. From micro-organisms to blue whales, all life "spirits" are put back in line to get on the ride again in the great amusement park of life.

Resurrection is specific to humans, more specifically those who choose the right religion and follow the correct lifestyle for their particular culture and time. Only humans have a "spirit", and only those who solve the Rubik's cube of morality are allowed into the big country club in the sky. Everyone else can go to hell, because it is a very exclusive club.

I've met basically two types of people when it comes to your question: there are those who cherish life and love, and those who think that life sucks and then you die. Regardless of religion, economic stance or culture, you can believe what you wish and will still fall into one or the other category.

Make someones day better and let them know how much you love them. Peace.

Answer 4

oh YES indeed !
the fact that you can STILL love a GOD and Jesus and still believe in reincarnation is the biggest plus to me .
i frankly do not want a god who forgives instantly the ted bundys and the hitlers but yet the nice little buddhist man who has always been helpful and loving well HE can not go to heaven according to christians BOGUS !!!!
one lifetime ?????and no matter what you do your not accountable ???all you have to do on your last breath is say i BELIEVE ????? what a cop out -------------------
to realise that you must come back to this hell on earth and possibly suffer what you have dealt out be it you were a murderer or a child abuser or whatever and go through the experience yourself so that you may become enlightened ,,,,this to me is justice and love at the same time .,,,,only through the thought that every deed ,every word i say i will be held accountable for this is SCARY ,but yet makes me work very hard at trying to be tolerant and kinder of others ,it helps me also be less judgemental and more understanding .
there are many many good books out their about re-incarnation ,it helps explain all of lifes questions that a christian could not possibly understand ...............why babies die ----------this is always asked --------------it is because this soul has come into this life for a brief time because it so loved the people whom its life would affect to help teach them a lesson to become evolved through a painful experience for those around this baby,,only through experiences and difficulties can we truly understand ,and no one can do that in one lifetime .
anyway many books can help you
peggy

Answer 5

resurection i will call u r reborn again which u go beyond that crap like hell and others scaring tactics of realigions when u r in fear u r divided and is easy to manipulate u love is only way in our lifes forgivness acceptance of life as is 'reincarnation it's like i ll send u to school and u fail to go to next class then u have to start all over same class till u pass to next same thing it's with our lives we die and born aver and over again whenu reach enlghtment than u master physicality and u r off the wheel of recycling what i call reincarnation anybody who believes in hell they ar already expierencing right now

Answer 6

Only if ye(do err) have more than one resurrections.
Not if you(made perfect) have only one resurrection.

Pst - "there is no respect of persons with God"
So either all have only one resurrection unto life.
Or else all have another one resurrection to death.

Perhaps ye've been believing an oxymoronic lie:
you too can have partiality with an imparital God.
Evidently this lie not true, for "as in Adam all die".
So question is "in Christ shall all be made alive"?
Pst: in "Christ" = in "the end of the law": Rom 10.
Perhaps if you answer no, then it's not you either.
Perhaps dying to law makes you "alive" unto God.
Perhaps not dying to law makes ye dead unto God.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.

Answer 7

Resurrection and reincarnation are similar.if you live long enough to see the changes needed in your life and you change them,then you become different,you become someone new. understanding Gods purpose for your life brings about a reincarnation of your old self to a new self.thus bringing on resurrection of you to new levels in your life.

Answer 8

Perhaps at the point in which you enter Heaven you gain perfect knowledge. That perfect knowledge will allow you to wrap your mind around the fact that if one of your loved ones intentionally turned away from God, then they made their own choice as to where they would spend eternity. Perhaps in perfection of form and mind, you will not be able to abide sin and will therefore no longer know those particular loved ones, maybe they will become as people you never knew.

Answer 9

Each of us is responsible for our own behavior and choice of faith. You are not responsible for loved ones who chose hell rather than heaven. It was a decision that your relative made. Reincarnation is a bunch of bunk and if you have to keep reliving life over and over again and if you make one little mistake you have to do it all over again, where is the good in that???? None that I can see.

Answer 10

The goal is getting free of the cycle of birth and rebirth either way. The resurrection could be seen as the ressurection of everyone trapped in this cycle...Love
PS Christ offers you his cc to pay off your karmic debt..