Past Life Believers: if one born with a disability, does that mean it has something to do with past life?

Answer 1

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 2

Not as a punishment for a past life, if that's what you mean. I believe that *between* lives, we make decisions about what we most need to learn this time around, and that being born with a disability is perhaps a chance to learn something (patience? the ability to fight against overwhelming odds? what it's like to just give up? It depends on the person) that we ourselves chose to learn. The idea of any other being *forcing* that on us is just too unfair for me to contemplate.

Answer 3

we are all sent here to learn something........so this world could be thought of as a form of school..........how can you have school with out teachers............maybe severely disabled people are born more to teach others compassion than to learn........or they could have been abusive pricks to there wives and children in former lives and in the need of some humility.

Answer 4

Absolutely not!!

There is no such thing as reincarnation - once someone dies that is it - otherwise God has made himself to be a liar and since He is sinless that is impossible.

Answer 5

Vaughn, you are more correct than you probably know.