reincarnation?

Question

what do you think about it? i dont kno if i believe in it or not?

Answer 1

Nope. God says each soul is precious and unique to him. If we ae going to be ressurected we can't be seven hundred people/insects at once can we?

Answer 2

Reincarnation.

Definition: The belief that one is reborn in one or more successive existences, which may be human or animal. Usually it is an intangible “soul” that is believed to be reborn in another body. Not a Bible teaching.

Does a strange feeling of being familiar with entirely new acquaintances and places prove reincarnation to be a fact?

Have you ever mistaken one man or woman who is alive for another who is also now living? Many have had that experience. Why? Because some people have similar mannerisms or may even look almost identical. So the feeling that you know a person even though you never met him before really does not prove that you were acquainted with him in a former life, does it?
Why might a house or a town seem familiar to you if you have never been there before? Is it because you lived there during a former life? Many houses are built according to similar designs. Furniture used in cities far apart may be produced from similar patterns. And is it not true that the scenery in some widely separated places looks very much alike? So, without resorting to reincarnation, your feeling of familiarity is quite understandable.

Do recollections of life at another time in another place, as drawn out under hypnosis, prove reincarnation?

Under hypnosis much information stored in the brain can be drawn out. Hypnotists tap the subconscious memory. But how did those memories get there? Perhaps you read a book, saw a motion picture, or learned about certain people on television. If you put yourself in the place of the people about whom you were learning, it might have made a vivid impression, almost as if the experience were your own. What you actually did may have been so long ago that you have forgotten it, but under hypnosis the experience may be recalled as if you were remembering “another life.” Yet, if that were true, would not everyone have such memories? But not everyone does. It is noteworthy that an increasing number of state supreme courts in the United States do not accept hypnotically induced testimony. In 1980 the Minnesota Supreme Court declared that “the best expert testimony indicates that no expert can determine whether memory retrieved by hypnosis, or any part of that memory, is truth, falsehood, or confabulation—a filling of gaps with fantasy. Such results are not scientifically reliable as accurate.” (State v. Mack, 292 N.W.2d 764) The influence of suggestions made by the hypnotist to the one hypnotized is a factor in this unreliability.

Does the Bible contain evidence of belief in reincarnation?

Eccl. 3:19: “There is an eventuality as respects the sons of mankind and an eventuality as respects the beast, and they have the same eventuality. As the one dies, so the other dies.” (As in the case of humans, nothing survives at the death of an animal. There is nothing that can experience rebirth in another body.)

Eccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.” (It is not into another body but into Sheol, the common grave of mankind, that the dead go.)

How much of a difference is there between reincarnation and the hope held out in the Bible?

Reincarnation: According to this belief, when a person dies, the soul, the “real self,” passes on to a better existence if the individual has lived a good and proper life, but possibly to existence as an animal if his record has been more bad than good. Each rebirth, it is believed, brings the individual back into this same system of things, where he will face further suffering and eventual death. The cycles of rebirth are viewed as virtually endless. Is such a future really what awaits you? Some believe that the only way of escape is by extinguishing all desire for things pleasing to the senses. To what do they escape? To what some describe as unconscious life.

Bible: According to the Bible, the soul is the complete person. Even though a person may have done bad things in the past, if he repents and changes his ways, Jehovah God will forgive him. (Psalms 103:12, 13.) When a person dies, nothing survives. Death is like a deep, dreamless sleep. There will be a resurrection of the dead. This is not a reincarnation but a bringing back to life of the same personality. (Acts 24:15) For most people, the resurrection will be to life on earth. It will take place after God brings the present wicked system to its end. Sickness, suffering, even the necessity to die, will become things of the past. (Daniel 2:44; Revelation 21:3, 4) Does such a hope sound like something about which you would like to learn more, to examine the reasons for confidence in it?

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Answer 3

It's a good way to drive people into caring about the environmenta and the creatures in it, instead of killing it all because the Bible says God created animals to serve man...

But much like the Bible, there is no support for reincarnation and even if there was there's no point in worrying about it since you would forget all out your present and past lives when you pass on to the next anyway.

Answer 4

Reincarnation is the only way to evolve from lower level to higher level. You can not get Ph.D., degree without attending the kindergarten, elementary, high school, and colleges. It takes so much of years of education to get a Doctorate degree. Likewise we have to evolve from minerals, vegetation, animals, human beings to the level of Supreme God. All are eligible to tread the way to God. There is no lower or higher in that. Without reincarnation and evolvement, if there is only one life time for all, then there will be no retribution for the bad deeds committed and there will be no purity in existence. All will tread the prohibited sensuous path and will live animal life only-nagarajan.

Answer 5

Peace be with you, and the truth shall make you free.

Jesus told you that Isiah the prophet was John the baptist reincarnated. Jesus also told you of reincarnation in the story of the "Unclean spirit goes out of a man" and Lazarus

Jesus said; Abraham was glad to see me.

Answer 6

I don't know. I guess it's possible seeing as there are times when I first meet somebody and I just click with them right off the back. It's as if I had known them for a long time or from somewhere else almost as if in another life.

Answer 7

Maybe we reincarnate as another human being, but since were reincarnated we don't remeber the life before this one. But when you get this feeling of I've done this before or I feel like I already know this person. (but haven't done it before or know the person) That's your previous life seeping in.

Answer 8

I personally believe in reincarnation, but not everyone does, some may even find it insulting, that others believe in it.

You never know right. ^>^

Answer 9

Taboo, charms,magic, fetishism,totems,ghost fear, ghost placation,ancestor worship, favoritism, ill luck avoidance, original sin, debt, coercion, exorcism,cultism, redemption's, covenants, human sacrifice, cannibalism, ransom's, substitutions, and

oaths, vows, signs, oracles, pledges, divination, omens, soothsaying, necromancy, voo doo,astrology, witch craft, white and black magic,dedications,possessions,sorcery,unclean,unholy,prohibitions, flesh and blood, chiefs, priests, shamans, spector, phantom, and

anthropomorphism.

Based on this list I would use extreme caution.

From the Cross to you:

Peace..........

Answer 10

i have no opinion about reincarnation, although i do sometimes have flashbacks to a previous life!