Have children lived a past life?

Question

As soon as they learn to speak, some children are able to tell remarkable detailed stories of people, places, and events in what might be their past lives. What do you make of this? I thought only adults lived past lives. Maybe animals have lived a past life!

Answer 1

My son did this. He started talking at a very young age in coherent complete sentences. Even his doctors said it was unusual for a child that young to talk the way he did.

We used to lay in bed at night talking about things. One night I told him that some people had memories that did not seen to fit into their current life. He then began to tell me a thoroughly amazing story about who he was before he was born. He described him self as a man older than you are now dad he told me. He went on to explain about a place he was staying temporarily before he was born where he had picked my wife and I as his parents.

He also mentioned almost in a nonchalant way that a fellow named Jesus lived there. This shocked me because we had never allowed him to be around any kind of religious teaching of any kind. We were careful about this because we had decided to let him wait till he was older and could make an informed decision about his own religious preference. He spent many nights telling me about his prebirth memories. It was a real treat to listen to what he had to say. I just can’t forget the Jesus comment. He had never even heard the name in our house. Made me reconsider a lot of the things I thought that I believed.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

yes children can live past lives, the adults who have are simply grown children who did. i believe that children are more open and curious about the experience and the memories are more fresh because they have had less pollution (lack of a better word) in this life to muddy over the past memories. does this make sense? as adults we are taught that this type of stuff is bs and we are just reliving a situation from this life that we had forgotten (ie-we forgot we actually had visited a place in childhood) children are a clean slate, if they have memories of being in a war, speaking a different language etc. there has to be something behind that! i think animals have had past lives too, maybe as people, interesting to think about.

Answer 3

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 4

Wake up and smell the roses. I don't want to call you an idiot because I know I would be reported if I did. So I will just say nobody has lived a past life. And any way could an adult have lived one unless he was a child first. Why did I ask that? Nobody has lived a past life. BB Boop Oop a Doop!

Answer 5

Hi. I never heard of a child saying I'm dead, but i do believe that children can see things that so many adults can't see, and some can still remember some of the events that had happened to them, i learned this from my own experience as a child and some i still remember, and i experienced this with my own children's when their were little, and with others family members kids.

Answer 6

From my own daughter, I am often amazed at how complete some of her stories are. She has amazing powers of observation about things at times. But the stories are often a little jumbled and it is hard to figure out where things some from at times. If both me and my wife talk it out we usually can.

If you wanted to believe that it was something that happened before, it would be easy to do.

Answer 7

Those adults who lived past lives, were they ever children?

Answer 8

When I was a child I thought I did but now I molted into a adult and have different lives.

Answer 9

Children are taught certan things by God in the womb. When they enter the outside world they forget everything and none remember.

Answer 10

who knows only God does. but some people say that when your given a choice between staying in heaven or going down to earth again some people choose earth.