do u believe in reincarnation?

Question

and where do we really go after death? do animals have souls too? i'm having a hard time what to believe...science or my religion..i'm a catholic.

Answer 1

reincarnation: No

When we die our soul w/ glorified body either goes directly to God to be judged or there is a delay until the final judgment, when all are judged at the same time. There is no clear answer on that topic.

Animals have souls: No

Science is full of bias, holes, and mistakes...I would put my trust in the Lord. He alone is perfect and does not lie.

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

Hmmm. wondering where you are going with this one.

Science can't say much supporting reincarnation, heaven, hell, or anything having to do with an afterlife. This comes down completely to a matter of faith, as science doesn't touch it, neither proving nor disproving.

I am Roman Catholic myself, but might be considered a bit liberal in my religion. Not exactly socially liberal, but spiritually so. For example, I'm not one to imagine God damning anybody. Rather, I see hell as a creation of man (something very real, though not exactly a location), as a prison they place themselves in by removing themselves from everything by turning inward into themselves.

Consequently, that also means they can leave it if they choose. Perhaps this is where the Catholic idea of Purgatory fits... if you leave yourself (selfishness, not meaning the knowledge of oneself, which is very important), that time in "hell" become in reality purgatory, because it was temporary.

Trying to be as open-minded as possible, I have spent a lot of time studying ethics, philosophy, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism.

I believe that there are truths in all religions, and that none are perfect (perhaps a bit blashpemous for some Christians, but I figure with some many denomitions in EVERY religion, it is excuseable).

I have been trying to work in my mind if perhaps everybody ends up making their religion real. I believe that all can make it to their "heaven", if perhaps by different paths, there is the same overarching Creator we try to align ourselves with, morally, spiritually, or religiously.

Honestly, the works of C.S. Lewis have influenced me greatly. JRR Tolkein relfects many of his ideas as well. Look up the theme of the Simarillion on Wikipedia to see this idea in abstract. C.S. Lewis is a very lucid writer, and proposes many interesting ideas.

Another resource to investigate if you are serious is the Catechism of the Catholic church. you might be surprised at their responses to ideas on science. Many imagine the Church as opposed to it, when really, there is not much contention, and both can be reconciled.

The effort put into learning about all these ideas is well worth it, a very rewarding journey. Knowledge doesn't have to confuse; it can strengthen your faith by being critical or introducing new ideas. When you can analyze your faith, you don't take so much for granted, you really understand, and thus it deepens that much more.

Good luck.

Answer 4

In my opinion, we live many lives. All living creatures have souls. There is a lot of info out there and many stories of remembering past lives. Good luck, sweetie. You will know when it feels right to you.

Answer 5

Somewhat. I beleive that we are all carbon based life forms, and that upon death, whether we are buried or burned to a crisp, we eventually return to our original form - carbon. This carbon is then taken up by other life forms in their life cycle..... Its a kind of cosmic recycling project....

Answer 6

i have a hard time believeing stuff to because i depressed.
i tell you the the truth jesus saves man.
except ye repent ye repent ye shall all likewise perish luke 13;3
for whosever shall call upon the name of the lord shallbe saved , romans 10;13
for whosever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire revelation 20;15

turn to jesus today repent of your sins .
jesus shed his blood to wash away our sins 1 john 1;7 and the blood of jesus christ his son cleanseth us from all sin

i ben told there a lot of religions out there but jesus christ is the way the only way to heaven. jesus saves man jesus is lord.
so call on jesus turn to jesus today say this sinners prayer , dear lord jesus i know i am a sinner and on my way to hell . i believe you died rosee again the third day i believe you died shed your blood for me on the cross please come in my heart lord jesus in jesus name amen.

this is rodney signig out in jesus name

Answer 7

i'm a hindu. in my religion we believe in reincarnation but i'm not quite sure about others

Answer 8

No! Your soul/spirit will either go to heaven and eternal peace and joy to be with God forever or to hell to eternal misery forever. Where are you headed? I hope and pray it is heaven.

Answer 9

No, I don't. We go to heaven or hell depending on whether or not we accepted Christ as our savior while on earth.

Answer 10

no we go to our graves Hell in greek is grave and then judgment
no souls for animals..