Do you believe in reincarnation?

Question

If so have you got any interesting views or stories about it. If not I'd like to hear from you too with your reasoning.

I don't believe we do get reincarnated but it's not for any religious reasons. I just don't think it happens.

Answer 1

No, plus if it did happen i dont see the point considering that no one remembers what they did in their past life.

Answer 2

Interesting how the answers are culturally dictated rather than a reasoned examination of the case... it's unsurprising that there's a preponderence of North American Christians here, all of whom have a gut aversion to contemplating anything which doesn't gel with their birth religion.

I just wonder what an equivalent number of Hindus might believe... and again they would go with their birth religion, out of a gut feeling that this is right and proper, and deliver an equivalent knee-jerk reflex defence of the idea of reincarnation?

We're conditioned by our culture, our birth religions and the teaching they give us in childhood, and the dominant religions around us, to such an extent that a Christian will feel revolted and alarmed by a foreign concept like reincarnation; a Hindu or a Buddhist might be just as alarmed to be told their belief in the eternal cycle of rebirth is wrong.

So can we get an accurate answer to the question? I have a suspicion a mechanism like reincarnation makes sense - or a lot more sense than Christianity does - but because I've come across no truly convincing evidence for it, or evidence that isn't tainted by a deep prejudice for or against, I can't whole-heartedly believe it does. Which makes me whatever the Buddhist equivalent of an agnostic is!

AgProv
(Born-again agnostic)

Answer 3

Reincarnation is a componant part of the Vedic religion, the only way to understand it, is to understand your real identity as an eternal spirit soul, rather then the material body. Vedic understanding must be learned in its entirity to gain knowledge of the science of reincarnation and release from the cycle of the repetition of birth and death.

With this in mind, there is no question that reincarnation is a reality, we, as individual spirit souls are reincarnating within these very bodies, the material body is composed of gross molecules and atomic particles,that are constantly changing, every seven years each cell is completely replaced, so the body we had seven years ago is different to the body we have now, this is reincarnation, even within this life.

At the end of this life when the gross material body is no longer operational, being simply a temporary biological machine, then the subtle material mind replays the events of one's life, those events in one's life that are most prominant propel the spirit soul, the real self, to the next destination, the basis for this to happen is by the activities that we perform and the desires that are most prominant, man proposes and God disposes.

If we live a spiritual life, with activities and desires to please the Supreme, then the original spiritual body is revived and we can return home, back to Godhead, however if the desires are more worldly then we will attain another material body either gross or subtle, perfectly suited to the mentality that we have developed whilst being in the human form of life, there are many living entities that remain in their subtle or astral forms, due to attachments to relatives and places during their last life, therefore the knowledge of the science of reincarnation is of paramount importance to understand.

The early Christian church also taught reincarnation, up untill the 6th century A.D., in 553 A D when the Roman empire started to collapse, the emperor Justinian at the 5th Ecumenical council at Constantinople removed and altered the teachings of Jesus to gain more social control over the uneducated masses, by establishing the "scare tactic" of a singular life, as anyone who opposed these types of alterations was considered a heretic, it is not difficult to understand how these gross misconceptions came to be accepted.

Reincarnation is supported by many well known texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the wisdom of the Buddah, however it is largely rejected in Western religious thought, which has a preference for a faith only system of salvation that abdicates responsibility for evil onto a personality known as the devil and responsibility for sin to be absorbed by the victim of an act of barbaric murder 2000 years ago.

Answer 4

Oh do I like this one and the answers of socalled bible-bashers who dont know hat they are talking about!
Jesus said, that
Matthew 11/11
In truth I tell you; there was never been anyone greater then John the Baptist...11/14...and he, if you will believe me, is the Elijah who was to return...anyone who has ears should listen!
...and the in 16/11 he proclaims that Elijah is coming indead and he will set everything right again.
John was Elijah and will return again...Now if that is not proof of reincarnation what is? He is even daring YOU to open your ears ...

Answer 5

I believe in reincarnation because energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another. This is scientific fact.

Answer 6

theres actually evidence of childrens past lives.......but not like any scientific evidence really means anyhing to the religious

Answer 7

Reincarnation is NOT true! It gives people a FALSE hope that they will have other lifetimes and NO judgment by God to have to encounter after their death......NOT TRUE!
"And it is appointed unto man ONCE to die; but after this the JUDGMENT".

Answer 8

no I believe the bible and it is not the biblical recarnation is something man made up. therefore I belive what the bible saids. that we go to haven or hell when we die if we believe and God and accepted him then we will go to heaven. If we don't believe in God then we go to hell as simple as that.

Answer 9

No, I believe the Bible. The Bible teaches we live here then eternally according to our actions here on earth.

Answer 10

Its something that I do like to beleive.