For those who believe in reincarnation...?

Question

Please real answers only, not foolish ones. the following are a list of things to think about and answer.

1. How do you really know that you can be, or have been reincarnated into multiple lives with real solid proof?

2. The idea of reincarnation is now being challenged by some contemporary Hindu scholars on the following grounds: first there is the problem of evaluating good karma. If a being could belong to all categories of life and nonlife, how could one attribute good carmic behavior to impersonal creatures?

3. Some have commented that due to the deteriorating moral lifestyle of our present generation very few humans would be born again into a human birth. Animals and granite slabs have no basis to live a moral life anyway, and they cannot therefore aspire to become humans. How is it, then, that we have this huge population explosion?

4. What now keeps you from beveliving the truth of the Holy Bible about how a man is subject to die once then comes the judgement?

Answer 1

1. How can you know, with any solid real proof that your god exists?
2. Karma is not all about personality. The idea of good karma/bad karma is a wholely western invention. Karma is not good or bad. It simply is. The goal is not to have nothing but good karma, the goal is to have no karma at all. Karma binds the soul to the earth.
3. See #2.
4. Even were you successful at disproving reincarnation, and that death was death, you have still not proven your own religious views.

Answer 2

Ok I believe in reincarnation but I do not follow it with any religion so here are my answers.

1. The Bible is no more truth to me that the Brother's Grim. So, the whole thing about proof goes both ways. I think that there has been evidence of reincarnation. Autistic people that are geniuses and prodigies from birth no one can teach them because they don't relate to people but they can play music that has been written and they have never seen. Me for one, I am an artist. I have only been out of high school for 10 years but I didn't know I could draw until the 10th grade. The thing that freaks me out (and yes it freaks me out) is that the more I don't draw the better I get. I draw for a few months then I might not draw for a year but when I start back drawing its better than I was before I stopped. That is how I found out I could draw in the first place and it's just weird.

2. I do not believe that people turn into animals when they are reincarnated. I actually have a theory that involves the signs of the zodiac. If you study astrology you know that each sign takes on some of the character traits from the sign before it. I think that is how you measure the levels. The catch is I don't believe in heaven. I believe that we are in a constant cycle. So, let’s say you’re an Aquarius and you learned what you were supposed to learn this time around. You become a Pisces. Pisces is the strongest sign in the zodiac because it takes on the traits of all the signs before it. I think the other plain may be what people see as ghosts or it may be something we can't fathom.

3. We have a huge population explosion because people are afraid to die. Everyone is living longer shoot even the people with terminal illnesses are living longer. If it was in the time of the Egyptians we wouldn't have over population because disease would keep the population down. Better health care even though we complain is the culprit. People used to die by the handfuls from the flu. Hardly anybody gets the flu anymore because of modern medicine. Like it or not this war is actually good for the planet because what's going to happen is; because we have defied the normal life span we don't die fast enough soon there won't be enough food shelter or recourses for anyone to use. They're already saying that in the next 40 years we won't be able to fish, were draining all of the oil from the ground, we're mining the minerals faster that they can be produced. If people would die like they're supposed to the world wouldn’t be overpopulated. Why is it when and animal is suffering the "humane" thing to do is to put it to sleep but a woman can be brain dead for 15 years and they want to keep her alive. What makes one act more humane than the other? Nothing but one is human and one is animal we can't relate to animals so that's ok but people are one of us. I don't get it but that's why the world is over populated.

4. Why don't I believe in one death? I don't really know it was just something I felt kind of like some people feel religion. I have a compilation of beliefs and I do believe in a higher power and if we were put here to learn from the world we were put in and we don't live long enough to experience it than all was wasted. But if we keep coming back to learn more, than the purpose of our life makes more sense because we are learning about our world over a period of cycles and not in one short lifetime.

Answer 3

I don't need to prove it to anyone,I know i have lived before and will continue to live after this body is gone. There are no impersonal creatures,all have some human attribute.All things made of God know God even the granite slab.The population explosion is due because humanity is moving into a level of spiritual life that express's Devine unconditional love. WE will see more and more People baptized with spirit. Water baptism will soon cease. Carnal man has a body that dies once. However man is spirit(the life of the body) and this spirit evolves & grows spiritually for many life times. At some point in time an space a man is appointed once to die to his sense of self separate and apart from God when this happens his spirit will merge back from whence he Came,as a raindrop merges into the ocean.

Answer 4

Okay, hopefully I won't offend you with my response:

1) The same way you know that you can go to heaven - that's why the belief is based on faith.

2) Not all believers in reincarnation are Hindu. I'm Wiccan. Many Wiccans and pagans believe in reincarnation. Even when I was a Christian I believed in reincarnation, because it's the only thing that made sense to me. How can the human soul possibly attain enough understanding of peace and harmony in one lifetime that they won't simply explode or start wreaking havoc once they get to heaven given that we are on the whole relatively hostile, fearful creatures that use a very, very small portions of our brain? Heaven never seemed to me to be someplace that the human psyche or soul would be able to comprehend with a limited 60-80 years or learning on this planet, so I long ago began to believe that we went up and came back down multiple times until we learned all the lessons we needed to in order to be able to peacefully exist on a spiritual plane. This actually led for my gradual drifting away from Christianity, and eventually I found Wicca, which gels with everything I'd come to realize myself through my own personal experiences.

3) I don't believe we are reincarnated as animals. I believe animals have completely separate though still very valid souls and can be tightly bonded to us but cannot be reincarnated as us. Mediums have told me that an entire cavalcade of cats follow me wherever I go because I draw them, and based on my deep love of and respect for felines I have no reason to believe otherwise. And even if we can be reincarnated as animals, I don't see that having a bearing on our human karma.

4) I was raised in the church. My uncle is a retired minister. My mom was a church secretary for 20 years. I have a very deep understanding of Christianity and the Bible, deep enough that it simply doesn't make sense to me as how the Universe works, and certainly is not something I can say I believe in. I refer you to point 2 if you think my beliefs are baseless and I didn't spend an awful lot of time contemplating this already.

Answer 5

i don't really have an answer here but i have a few statements and/or questions to put out in the open..i am a christian but i don't have all my beleifs exact b/c i'm still searching and i'm still young..but i think both sides of the spectrum can argue...true there is no proof of reincarnation but what about "wounds" ...some subjects effect people more that other,say divorce may have more of an affect on me that it would on you EVEN if we were both experiencing it. now why? why would it effect me more that you? maybe i had dealt with it "before", in another time so to speak...if they say that when you die God takes all your pain away then why would he allow it to be there in the first place? maybe it doesn't go away...maybe it carries on with your soul, to a next life. maybe theres no such thing..but none of this really adds up.. there is always a question in every beleif.that is why i don't have my specifics down.all i know is i am a christian but in other subjects regarding it i'm open-minded...there will never really be an answer to EVERYTHING.

Answer 6

I would like to know how you or anyone who is a christian can answer #1, when it comes to proving god

Christians have no more proof than Hindus when it comes to proving their religion