Are there still references to reincarnation in the bible?

Question

I dont think they were all taken out by the catholic church, I think I found some

Answer 1

The early Christian fathers accepted the experience of reincarnation...I have been involved in this debate before and if I remember rightly yes there are still some ambiguous references to reincarnation

Answer 2

No, there's no reincarnation in either book of the Bible. It's not a concept that existed in Europe or the Middle East at the time. Reincarnation as a concept was confined to Eastern Asia and India.

Of course, due to tamperimg by the Catholics, it's impossible to tell for the NT, but it's unlikely. The OT has survived pretty much intact, and there's no mention of serial reincarnation.

Answer 3

The composite being is unmade into the cosmos; there is nothing whatever that can survive as a consciousness of being So-and-so. The elements of the psycho-physical entity are broken up and handed on to others as a bequest. This is, indeed, a process that has been going on throughout our So-and-so's life, and one that can be most clearly followed in propagation, repeatedly described in the Indian tradition as the "rebirth of the father in and as the son." So-and-so lives in his direct and indirect descendants. This is the so-called Indian doctrine of "reincarnation"; it is the same as the Greek doctrine of metasomatosis and metempsychosis; it is the Christian doctrine of our preexistence in Adam "according to bodily substance and seminal virtue"; and it is the modern doctrine of the"recurrence of ancestral characters." Only the fact of such a transmission of psycho-physicalcharacters can make intelligible what is called in religion our inheritance of original sin, inmetaphysics our inheritance of ignorance, and by the philosopher our congenital capacity for knowing in terms of subject and object. It is only when we are convinced that nothing happensby chance that the idea of a Providence becomes intelligible.

Answer 4

Reincarnation was one of the original tenets until condemned by the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 AD.

Answer 5

No there isn't any reference to reincarnation in the Bible and there never has been.

Answer 6

I did a bible search on biblegateway.com and this is what has come up;

Sorry. No results found for "reincarnation" in Keyword Search.

Answer 7

I don't know of any, but if you think you have found some, please let me know.

Answer 8

Really? What are they?

Answer 9

No, never has been!

Answer 10

still?