Do you believe in reincarnation?

Question

I do I think we come back as animals in some way
if you were a good person you go to a good home and the opposite if you weren't
you think thats crazy?

Answer 1

Yes I do. More than once I have had dreams that were very very realistic and I was someone else, in a different time period. The me in them is always the same person, but the situations in the dreams change, and they were, very scarily realistic, to the point that they could have in fact be real. Memoiries of previous life even.

I'm not sure about comming back as an animal, it could be possible. And I think that in the next life, people that have been wronged, or have commited wrong doings might get a second chance to do good.

And no, I don't think your crazy ^^

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

I do believe, but I am not Hindu. It is complicated, I'll try to explain you. When I think of it, I see far far future, maybe too far to exist. I believe that far in future I might be reborn, which gives me incentives to do good now, to be positive, to behave good in order to earn this come back. It is more like a discipline that I follow. For me it is a synonym for 'good doing'.

Answer 4

No not crazy. My cat Jacques is a person inside of his cat self. But my cat Annie is pure animal. Bodhi my third cat was a saint. Clarice the 4th cat was a martyr, perhaps a witch.

Answer 5

Do you honestly think that if you live a bad life you'll come back as let's say a cockroach and if you live a good life you'll come back as the Dalai Lama. I just don't see the possiblility of this.

Answer 6

we return to complete the lessons we missed the first time(s) around....and will continue until we "get it". not as animals...but in forms to help us learn all that God wants us to know. If we live a life of blind vanity, we will come back homely. If we live a life of gluttonous excess, we will return with nothing.

Answer 7

No, I don't believe in reincarnation. If that was true then there was no need for Jesus we would be able to earn our own way to heaven

Answer 8

I feel rather sorry for those who are only "born again" once. This world is too complicated to completely understand, even after several cycles.

Answer 9

I believe that we'll be brought back to life,
for us to be judged in the Hereafter.

Answer 10

I believe anything's possible.