bible in the 5th centuary? Schneb pay attention, and do your own research.
2007-03-24 10:02:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. If you had people believing they will live multiple lives it would be a little harder to control them.
2007-03-24 10:06:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In order to make such a statement you have to reveal your sources rather than to make an assertion which has no truth in reality.
Reincarnation does not fit with the doctrine of theism.
Also if you look at the numbers you will find that there are more people living and alive today than the total number of people that have died throughout history. In order for reincarnation to be logically true then many of the people alive today would have to have shared in being the same person in the past and this is nonsense. There is not enough dead to account for the number alive today. Then who were all the extra people?
2007-03-24 17:57:45 · answer #2 · answered by messenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they felt that people weren't pious enough, thinking they would get another chance at life next time.
I think that, partly because I have a fundamentalist family member who thinks that if you raise kids to believe they were descended from apes it gives them justification to behave like animals.
The other part comes from my understanding that the resurrection was borrowed from a previous culture that staged resurrections of tribal chiefs each spring to show their strength and favor with the powers that be and that Mary was added to the Jesus story to convert the French in the 3rd century, I believe it was (originally he was born of a stone - also borrowed from another culture).
Sorry I don't have sources for you - these are just things that I have heard over the years that have stuck in my mind as interesting, but I have never really been that interested in the Jesus story to verify or document this sort of thing.
Peace!
2007-03-24 17:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by carole 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you're talking about the Gnostic scriptures.
http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/naghamm/nhl.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/gno/index.htm
2007-03-24 17:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Which part of the Bible was this?
2007-03-24 17:14:29 · answer #5 · answered by gnostic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd love to know your sources on that one...
2007-03-24 17:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by J.R. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What crap.
2007-03-24 17:07:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋