Do you believe in past lives?

Question

Do you believe in reincarnation or past lives? Please tell your story if you have experienced this. Serious answers please.

Answer 1

i have come to know some of my past lives, they were usually soldiers, and i think that is why i am such a pacifist in this life. be well!!! thomas

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I don't believe in reincarnation, I know of it - I know it is real. The only thing that fits with the laws of the universe. Regardless of the fact the first past life experience I had was when i was 7. Just remember this old guy during the early 1900's walking along what appeared to be a brick road. There was horse buggies and etc. I don't need to explain this whole experience, anyways I was told it was a past life. There is much more than this but don't need to speak it on Yahoo answers.

How does it contradict intellect logic? I guess Plato, Pythagoras, and other great minds were lacking in that department? What is not logical is a place in the center of the earth and a god who watches over you like a hawk in some corporal place with mansions and etc. Consciousness does not die, nor does energy. The problem you'll see is in the fact that people lack any understanding of the concept at all. They have absolutely no understanding of it, from one prospective Christians are not wrong in their claim that man lives one life. So again, people don't understand it at all.

Answer 4

Yes.... I do believe in past lives & reincarnations. I haven't had any particular experience to share. But there's something inside me that believes that we are born with a purpose in life---a destiny. AND if that is not fulfilled to God's will, I believe there is a second go around for those people. If you were God and you had intentions and someone messed it up, because of their free will, wouldn't you get a little annoyed and basically say "Oh no you don't.... that's not how I wanted it.". and then put that person back down here again. I would. And I believe in past lives, too. I don't know much about it....but my instincts tell me it does exist. Like with de ja vu....I have experienced that before. It's a very eery thing...feeling like you've been somewhere, with someone before. I believe that that is important, too. And we just don't know what it is.... It's beyond us....

Oh well, that's my 2 cents worth and I"m sticking to it. Thanks.

Answer 5

Yes I do . It is not the Physical body that reincarnates but the soul in a different body.
Sorry SEEKER. But the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS MADE TH SOULS OF ALL THAT WAS AND WILL BE FROM ITS OWN BODY. Before the creation of the physical Universe. Those that enter into it when the permission was given entered into the forms that were there at the time and enjoyed d the sensations so much that they forgot where they came form and have to work their way back.
Those that entered but did not and returned to the Creator are those that we call Angels now as they are still pure spirits.

Answer 6

Seriously, yes and no. No, I do not believe in reincarnation. However, I do believe we all had a single past "life". This was when we were just spirits or souls waiting for our turn to come to earth where we would have the opportunity to accept or deny Christ and in the end be judged according to the decisions we made here in the next life. And then that's it.

Answer 7

I do but I also believe that human beings have always believed in what ever makes them more comfortable in this life. If we believe in an afterlife then we can feel better about losing someone cause we'll see them later. If we believe in reincarnation then we can feel better about not getting to everything in this life cause we'll get another chance down the road.If we believe that death is just the end then we don't have to worry about a being judged by a higher power. So much to think about and I have found myself believing in things that make no sense when you break them down to facts alone. The bible is one of them but I believe cause I'm scared not to.

Answer 8

No, the numbers do not add up mathematically. Where did all the new souls come from? If in the beginning we were say, only a 100 people, and those hundred people died and came back, we'd still only have 100 people.
So then they come up with the nonsense that plants and animals have souls too. So if I kill a spider I may be killing by dead grandmother? Pish posh! And what am I supposed to eat if my spinach could be a long dead relative?

Secondly, what a horrible curse it would be to have be on this Earth over and over and over again!!

Answer 9

As for the the Holy Spirit, yes. He successcively and endlessly manifests Himself as Moses, Khrisna, Christ....
But not at all for man or any other creatures. All creatures return to dust like the human body. The human soul starts its life in the womb of the mother and then, at the physical death, soars up to the spiritual world to live eternally under the mercy of the One True God.

Answer 10

No, but I believe in the Bible saying that "it is appointed once for a man to die and then the judgement". Meaning to me that we are born once, and when we die our souls are judged by God.

Not everyone believes this way, some believe they have had past lives. I myself do not believe in old-souls, I believe God created our souls at some point and then placed us in bodies when He chose to. I also believe this because in the Bible God tells us he knew us before we were in our mother's wombs.

Thanks for the question. A very good one! I am sure you will get many various replies to help you on your search for what we all believe.

~Jewel

Answer 11

I know for sure that we all lived previous lives, and most of us will live future lives. Job said that "from the womb I came, and to the womb I shall return." He didn't think he would return to his current mother's womb though, because he wasn't crazy. But after that an idiot named Saul, who changed his name to Paul came along and said he "saw the light," stopped killing people with a sword, helped start the Christian church, and told everyone that we lived only once and then were judged.

Paul was full of bologna, because what he said isn't supported in the book that he claimed to be preaching about, which is what we commonly call the "Old Testament." Instead of "one life and judgment," the Hebrew Bible (as it's correctly called) describes a "judgment" only after certain events have occurred. Those events and the coming of the Messiah (not the "return of the Messiah), are clearly recorded as prophecy.

One of the prophecies, Jeremiah, clearly says that those who create the mess that we find ourselves in are going to have to pay the consequences for their actions.

Chew on this for a moment. We know for sure that people like "Saul/Paul," "Simon/Peter," and Muhammad created two religions that are fighting like crazy now. How are they supposed to pay the consequences for their actions? After all, they started the bogus religions that are causing us to fight about God today.

Another thing to chew on (think about) is what a lot of the prophecies state regarding our "return from the grave.) Several of them, including Isaiah say that everyone will return from the grave during the time of the true Messiah, and the "last war." How is it that people who have been dead for centuries or even millinias going to return from the grave? They are dust now!

The only reasonable conclusion is that everyone who is guilty of creating the bogus religions we now have, are going to have to live again in order to pay the consequences for misleading other people. In other words, we are going to be misled. That's horrible for a lot of people, because one of the things we have been misled about regards what to expect when the Messiah really does show up. The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) doesn't mention a guy with holes or scars in his hands and feet showing up and saving a select few who believe that Jesus was God.

Instead, it says that a major religion will be started by a guy referred to as "Immanuel," and that religion would be one of the ones that lays "seize to Jerusalem," which brings on the "last war." When that happens, it says that "everyone" will be present," and it says so in several places.

Simply explain that, without including reincarnation. We have seized Jerusalem from the Muslims, and we know for sure that dead bodies aren't coming out of the ground.

By the way, we took the land of "Israel," from the Muslims about 59-60 years ago. It says in Isaiah that those who take Jerusalem during the last war, would hold it for sixty five years, and then one of the two groups who take it, "would no longer be a people." That's kinda scary, because if that was talking about now, the Messiah should be on earth, getting ready. We have 5 or six more years, according to that.

Sincerely,

Chris

(sorry about the ramble, but it's my favorite subject)