2007-02-12 14:34:59 · 7 answers · asked by feelgood4you69 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no, I do not
2007-02-12 14:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by Jennifer D 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.
2007-02-13 02:01:49 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do. I have felt that my whole life. As a child I knew that we lived other lives.
After a few very very hard years I attended church with a friend. It was one of those fanatical pentecostal churches. One day I saw a film of some Evangelists and she said that it must be hard to be an atheist. At that moment, I heard "that is because our souls remember the other side and God".
Anyway, those fanatics left me running from God for quite awhile. I tried to not believe, I truly did try. He would not let me go, however.
I am a deist. I know there is a God but I dislike intensely religion and idiotic religious books.
2007-02-12 22:52:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone should conduct his own study and investigation.
Ian Stevenson - 3000+ researched cases suggestive of Reincarnation
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation01.html
Helen Wambach - 1088 hypnotic regressions of subjects reliving Past Life Experiences
http://www.carolmoore.net/articles/helenwambach.html
Raymond Moody - 100+ documented Near-Death Experiences
http://www.ghostvillage.com/legends/2003/legends25_08232003.shtml
http://www.healthy.net/scr/interview.asp?Id=209
http://www.lifeafterlife.com/
Enter the Realm of the Spirit
http://innerquest1.blogspot.com/
2007-02-13 07:17:06 · answer #4 · answered by Angel Luz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
2007-02-12 22:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we end up being a pile of dust... we are matter, we end up matter... just my belief
2007-02-13 00:15:52 · answer #6 · answered by Jocelyn B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I believe that death is the end. Period.
2007-02-12 22:50:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋