Then humans would come and go always believing in something that isn't there and it would be an eternal cycle of nothingness. Right?
2007-01-07 11:56:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe in that now, though it is not an endless cycle of nothingness, but an unending cycle of rebirth and suffering.
I am working on it though and hope to exit samsara.
2007-01-07 12:00:28 · answer #1 · answered by saopaco 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.
2007-01-07 20:25:40 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reincarnation works on the principles of karma. So how you live this life is relevant to your next incarnation. The idea is to advance your soul mind. For Christians, I guess that with reincarnation their soul mind will just keep re-living the same type of life because they aren't advancing and expanding their soul mind through spiritual awareness and development. For those that adhere more to the esoteric, their is a belief in other levels of existence besides the physical body. There are many etheric plains of existence and the soul mind must develop in each incarnation to enable advancement to a higher level of awareness and therefore to finally obtain an existence on the next level.
2007-01-07 20:11:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
im an atheist but i partially believe in reincarnation because we have an energy in us that has to go some place
2007-01-07 19:58:24 · answer #4 · answered by me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is reincarnation...I want to come back as a higer life form, a fish.haha
2007-01-07 19:59:24 · answer #5 · answered by Z ten 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wrong,the first incarnate could not have come from nothing.
2007-01-07 20:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
How do you know that it isn't happening anyway?
2007-01-07 19:58:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋