Can humans be reborn in another life after death?

Question

I've heard that we had a past life but for some reason our memory has been erased, but i saw a show on t.v. where a guy was hipnotized and talked about his past life. Is this really true?

Answer 1

children under the age of 5 remember easier than adults. Actually most religions believe in reincarnation. I have a feeling of remembrance, but my son used to remember. My grandfather used to get confused about this life and what happened in others. From my experience in this life I would say it is true.
Oh and hypnosis is no good.

Answer 2

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 3

Notice what God records in his word:

"Look! All the souls--to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son--to me they belong. The soul that is sinning--it itself will die." -- Ezekiel 18:4

"No one will ever preserve his own soul alive." -- Psalms 22:29

"All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She'ol, the place to which you are going." Ecclesiastes 9:10

"For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. ... Their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun." -- Ecclesiastes 9:5,6

Have You Lived Before? :
- Do you believe in reincarnation?
- Should You? :
- - Identifying the Source and the Basis
- - Is the Soul Immortal?
- - God's Personality and the Law of Karma
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1997/5/15/article_01.htm

Answer 4

There is no such thing as past lives and reincarnation. This is a tool of misdirection from Satan to distract people from the truth. If people are busy looking into things that are total lies then they will not get time to study the real TRUTH. The truth is that Jesus Christ is the only Son of God and you can only get to Heaven through faith in Jesus.

Jesus said:
I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 14:6

Answer 5

The bible supports it. John was Elijah. I also believe that it does happen.

Matthew 17:11-12
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you that Elijah is come already and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatever they listed."

Luke 3:3
"And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. As it was written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."

Luke 1:17
"And he shall go before Him in the SPIRIT and POWER of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people Prepared for the Lord."

Answer 6

One reason Christians don't believe in reincarnation—the belief that we come back to life over and over again—is because they believe in heaven.

After all, if heaven is real (as Christians believe), then there isn't any need for an endless cycle of dying and coming back to Earth. In fact, why would we want to return time and time again to the pain and insecurities of this life? Ahead of us is the glory of heaven! As the Bible says, "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18).

There is, however, another reason why Christians reject the idea of reincarnation. It is this: No matter how long we lived—or how many lives we had—we could never erase the stain of sin that keeps us from God. In other words, we could never reach perfection. But God loves us and has provided the way for all our sins to be forgiven. That way is Jesus Christ, who died as the one final sacrifice for our sins.

Don't be misled by false hopes or deceptive dreams that will only take you down the wrong path. Instead, face your own need of God and by faith commit yourself to Jesus Christ. In Him we have hope—hope for this life and hope for life with Him in heaven forever.

Answer 7

Personally I believe, mainly cause I have had "flashbacks" of previous lifes. I know of at least four, all were in uniform except one:
Bits and Pieces of Revolutionary War and Civil War
A rancher
And most recent: WW2, this is the one I have the most "memories" from.

Answer 8

I believe in reincarnation, but I do not KNOW that there is reincarnation. I don't think we can know for sure. But I have seen evidence that makes me believe in it as a distinct possibility.

I've heard stories from people I know that make me believe in it, but those stories won't prove it to anyone who does not know these people as well as I do. People would just accuse them of making it up. But I know these people well enough to know they wouldn't make it up.

Dr. Ian Stevenson has written several books that lend evidence to the theory of reincarnation. I think they are very interesting to consider. I think he has a book called "Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation" or something like that.

Answer 9

Essentially, you're talking about reincarnation. I believe in it. To me, my body is just the vessel that carries my soul. When this body dies, my soul will be reborn in another body.

The idea of being able to talk about past lives I'm not sure about.

Answer 10

Of course, even the bible says "Lest yea be born again you cannot enter the kingdom of God" The early Christian church embraced reincarnation, and it was only after 1000 AD that it slipped out of favour.