If reincarnation is true, would that mean we are dead BEFORE we're born, as well as after we die?

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You really need to think about this question before you answer it.

Answer 1

Yes, it's exactly what it means. I'm always interested in philosophy and all it's aspects, and have thought of this often.
I would give you the whole speech but I guess you can just read great books about reincarnations as you read about indian religions.
Your body dosen't reincarnate in the form of other, your soul does. And as that happens you can't remember anything about your past life. Even though throughout history there have been exceptions.

Answer 2

Reincarnation has math problems. You start out with a small human population, say 10,000. Then it must mushroom to like over 6,000,000,000 today. So in the past you initially required just 10,000 souls. Today you need 6,000,000,000 different souls.

Since the population is increasing, some of these souls would be used for the first time. What were they doing all this time, while other souls lived through multiple lives?

Are souls being constantly created? Some believers of reincarnation, do not include animals - correct? Some believers of reincarnation include life on other planets - correct? All of this taken into account, could it take like, thousands of bodies, millions of years for a single soul to fully "evolve" to a final state? Why is it that the billions of reincarnated souls presently on earth do not look that enlightened ?

Answer 3

--No it sounds to me that no one is ever dead even though death exists.
-Reincarnation is a perversion of the Bibles resurrection!

*** rs p. 317 - p. 319 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?

Does Matthew 17:12, 13 reflect a belief in reincarnation?

Matt. 17:12, 13: “[Jesus said:] ‘Elijah has already come and they did not recognize him but did with him the things they wanted. In this way also the Son of man is destined to suffer at their hands.’ Then the disciples perceived that he spoke to them about John the Baptist.”

Did this mean that John the Baptist was a reincarnated Elijah? When Jewish priests asked John, “Are you Elijah?” he said, “I am not.” (John 1:21) What, then, did Jesus mean? As Jehovah’s angel foretold, John went before Jehovah’s Messiah “with Elijah’s spirit and power, to turn back the hearts of fathers to children and the disobedient ones to the practical wisdom of righteous ones, to get ready for Jehovah a prepared people.” (Luke 1:17) So John the Baptist was fulfilling prophecy by doing a work like that of the prophet Elijah.—Mal. 4:5, 6.

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. (Ps. 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. (Dan. 2:44; Rev. 21:3, 4)

Answer 4

Physically yes, but reincarnation involves a spirit that lives separate from the body. So you wouldn't be DEAD dead

Answer 5

If you study reincarnation you will understand that there is no such thing as being "dead". Before we enter and after we've departed our human body, our essence simply exists in a different realm. Our spirit is perpetual - always evolving, with the ultimate goal of perfecting ourselves

Answer 6

Do you comprehend that if reincarnation exists (that's), you're this type of reincarnated being your self on the very 2d? Reincarnation isn't this type of surprising concept, if all of us be attentive to that we in simple terms get carry of that style of physique that befits our awareness. The physique is the effect of our previous desires. a fabric physique is needed to fulfill our fabric desires. it particularly is provide up straight forward, if we'd like a god-like physique, we could domesticate god-like, selfless desires; on the different hand, if we domesticate animal-like, perverted, self-well-known desires or something in between, we are able to get carry of a similar, befitting physique. it particularly is as much as us. we pick our desires (loose will), we get carry of a befitting physique, we are located in a perfect ecosystem and then we are compelled to act for that reason. for this reason, controlling the concepts is needed interior the technique of achieving perfection.

Answer 7

It means we would be sort of like an oyster, either a he or a she if it's it's choice ter.We would be dead and /or alike at an given point.This is one reason I don't believe in reincarnation. You live once and you die once, end of story.

Answer 8

No, the other way around. It means we're alive, before and after. Maybe spiritually dead, but that's another story.

Answer 9

Yes, I guess they say that I must have been a cow in the previous life. Because I was a "good" cow, I've now ascended to a person this time around. I'm guessing that it's back down to cow level after my death, as I've been a bit of a punk. Please tell your future kids to order the fish at the restaurant, that may buy me a few more years as a cow once I'm reborn in about (hopefully) 40 years or so.

Answer 10

Of course not.
Reincarnation is the denial of death.
Bodies cease to function and melt back into the environment, but the spirit is eternal and cannot die. Your question, therefore, makes no sense.