Reincarnation can bring religions together.
Heaven is being reincarnated as a family dog, or the animal of your choice.
Hell is being reincarnated as something with more than four legs.
2006-10-31 01:02:21
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answered by DoctorScurvy 4
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Reincarnation is the only afterlife scenario that makes sense to me. If we only have one chance at life, then why do some people only get to live for less than five years and others get over a hundred years? Christians argue that babies who die are welcomed into Heaven anyway, but still, they barely even got the chance to live. That's not fair. If life doesn't end permanently at death, I don't understand how it could possibly turn out to be a single "all or nothing" shot.
2006-10-31 08:44:18
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answer #2
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answered by . 7
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Depends on what one thinks it is.
Our spirits can live in anything. There is a lot of SPACE
in between the particles that make up the atoms that make up
our world.
Some remember living in things, so that has turned into a false belief that we come back as bugs and things.
Reincarnation is a progression to a higher reality. And we are
supposed to put an END to the cycle of reincarnation.
But there are indeed lower worlds, and many fail.
Jesus said Elijah returned as John the Baptist. Matthew 11 and
17 have a reference to that. You will get arguments because of
the way its worded in different bibles. The KJV says John the
Baptist IS Elijah that WAS to come.
Elijah was prophesied to return in the end of Old Testament.
And he will come again too, I believe, during the Tribulation, as one of the two witnesses in Revelation.
2006-10-31 08:50:43
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answer #3
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answered by zenbuddhamaster 4
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no not atleast according to islam
As in every other matter, the Muslim point of view regarding to the philosophy of karma must be based on what God says in the Qur'an, which states there is only one birth and resurrection. Everyone lives only once on this earth, and then he dies. In verse 62: 8, our Lord gives the following command:
Death, from which you are fleeing, will certainly catch up with you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible and He will inform you about what you did.
A person is resurrected after death and, according to all the things he has done and the works he has performed, is rewarded with either eternal Paradise or endless Hell. That is to say, that a human being has one life in this world, and then an everlasting afterlife. God says very clearly in the Qur'an (21: 95) that after he has died, no one will return to this life: "It is ordained that no nation We have destroyed shall ever rise again." And similarly:
When death comes to one of them, he says, "My Lord, send me back again so that perhaps I may act rightly regarding the things I failed to do!" No indeed! It is just words he utters. Behind them is a barrier until the Day they are resurrected. (Qur'an, 23: 99-100)
In another verse in the Qur'an (2: 28), God says this about the death and resurrection of human beings:
How can you reject God, when you were dead and then He gave you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again, then you will be returned to Him?
Everyone will be resurrected on the Last Day when, learning that another return to earth is not possible, he will give an account of all the actions he did in his life. In the Qur'an (44: 56-57), God says that after a human being has come into this world, he will experience only one death: "They will not taste any death there-except for the first one. He will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire. A favor from your Lord. That is the Great Victory."
"How many generations We have destroyed before them! Do you see a trace of any one of them or hear even a whisper of them?
(Qur'an 19:98)
I THINK THESE STATEMENTS CLEARLY PROVE MY ANSWER
2006-10-31 08:57:02
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answered by HONEY 1
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Yes. Though I don't believe we come back as animals.
And I love the Christian responses on this topic. One life, One Death, One Resurrection... yet that One Resurrection, in Revelation, lays out what Reincarnation states.... a New Body, but it is still "You". Somehow they always seem to miss that...
2006-10-31 08:45:30
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answered by riverstorm13 3
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Sort of.... but only in the same way that a Lego model can be taken apart and the pieces used to make something new. Typically you won't use exactly the same pieces twice, but mix and match with what is appropriate.
Likewise I don't believe that after I die that I will singularly become one other thing. I will become one with all reality, and parts of what was me will form other elements of existence.
2006-10-31 08:43:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, untill we achieve enlightenment and trully die with out sin, we will be forever stuck in Samsara. That is what the teaching of the Guatama Buddah teaches, he also taught the way to escape the cycle of Birth-Death-Rebirth, by stopping what causes suffering.
2006-10-31 08:47:22
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answered by Tsar 2
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Yes, I believe we choose to come into this world to learn lessons that will help us grow as souls. I don't believe that people are punished or rewarded lifetime to lifetime. I think we choose the things we are going to go through each time.
Love & Light
Sharon
One Planet = One People
2006-10-31 08:43:00
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answered by Soul 5
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Yes
2006-10-31 08:39:38
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answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6
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Absolutely.
2006-10-31 08:42:23
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answered by William B 2
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