Reincarnation, truth or myth?

Answer 1

Myth -defiantly.

Answer 2

Myth. 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) Does such a hope sound like something about which you would like to learn more, to examine the reasons for confidence in it?

Answer 3

Hebrews 9:27 clearly refutes the doctrine of reincarnation -- "it is appointed for men to die once, and after this comes judgment." Simply stated, reincarnation is not compatible with Christian doctrine. In fact, the Bible clearly teaches that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Reincarnation is the same deception used by Satan in the Garden of Eden when he told Eve, "You surely shall not die." The Bible teaches that eternal salvation from sin is a gift from God through Jesus Christ. Reincarnation is a myth, which teaches that "salvation" will ultimately come to those who have perfected themselves at the end of their Karma-based life cycle.

Answer 4

I believe that ever action has an equal and opposite reaction. The universe expands. Then contracts. And in 100 trillion years (give or take another very large and arbitrary period of time which noone can ever really say, because who knows if it is one expansion/contraction per life time or a trillion) we will be born again and everything will happen just as it is now.

We are the sum of our choices and environment and nature, and when that sum occurs exactly the same way again, it will be us, again.

Strangely, I am also a Christian. "The kingdom of heaven is at hand," as Jesus said. And here we are, in the image and likeness of God, and eternally in his presence, and what more heaven could we possibly ask for? And who am I to complain that someone else gets a "better" eternity than me? I am sure I deserve it.

Free will is relative. That said, from our point of view... there is still free will (even though there really isn't) so if you want to have a good eternity, make the good decisions. You will be living with them for eternity.

Answer 5

The answer from Gods Word is that
it is total myth.
Each soul is to come through this earth age in the flesh, born of woman, one time, and one time only. Then its back to the Father.
Someone who says they are reincarnated are either a fake, or else they have a spirit
that prattles on and speaks thru the mouth of the idiot...
I only say that because I think that anyone who would allow a spirit to stay within them is unlearned (not stupid, but unlearned).

Answer 6

Myth! When I die my soul leaves my earthly body and goes to Heaven so I will have my spiritual body! When I go to Heaven why would I ever want to be reincarnated back to earth as something else?

Answer 7

Myth. There is nothing of you that can survive your physical death.

Suppose you're at the beach and you make a nice big fancy sandcastle, complete with moat and turrets and so on. Later, the tide comes in and washes it all away - the sand gets spread around the beach and all trace of your sandcastle disappears.

Where did it go? Well, clearly the castle didn't 'go' anywhere as such - it was a temporary arrangement of grains of sand that went to make up something recognisable to us, and when the sea washed it away, it simply ceased to exist. Another day, someone else might come along and make another castle using some of the same sand that went into your castle, but the one you made is gone and can never exist again.

This is how it is with human beings - we are recognisable to ourselves and others as living organisms, but fundamentally we are temporary constructions of atoms and molecules and will one day simply cease to exist. Just as the sandcastle consists solely of the sand from which it is made, so human beings consist solely of the atoms and molecules of which they are made. When we die, our bodies will be returned to the environment to be incorporated into new living organisms, or to fall as rain, or to make the bedrock of a million years from now. We are ephemeral creatures, a brief pattern of order and complexity imposed on the raw material of the natural world. We should make the most of it, for this is all there is.

Answer 8

according to the Bible "TRUTH"

John3:3
I say unto Thee. (apostles) Except a man be Born Again, (reincarnated) he cannot see the Kingdom of God.

John3:7
Marvel not that I said unto Thee (apostles).
'Ye' must be Born Again. (reincarnated/2nd Coming)

John14:1
Thomas could not comprehend what Jesus meant when He said...
"I will come again (2nd coming/reincarnate), and take you (reincarnation of Thomas)to myself.
That where I am... You may be also, and you know the way where I am going."
Thomas asked..."How can we know the way?"
Jesus answered.... "I am the Way... and 'The Truth'... and the Life."

1Peter1:23
Being... Born Again (reincarnated), not of corruptible seed(sperm), but incorruptible.

John20:21
So Jesus said to them again... "Peace to you!
As the Father has sent me (to be Born Again)...
I also send you." (to be Born Again/Reincarnated/2nd Coming)

Matthew24:44
So 'you'(apostles) too must be ready... because at an hour 'you' are not expecting 'Him'... the 'Son' of 'Man' will come. ( be born again via a womb.)

thomas24
His disciples said, "show us the place where you are, for we must seek it."

Psalms105:4
Seek the Lord... and His Strength.
Seek His Face... evermore.

(Job 33:28-30)'He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit, And my life shall see the light.'
Behold,.. God does all these oftentimes with men,
To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Luke10:22 All things are delivered to me of my Father,
and no man knoweth 'Who'...the Son is, but... the Father,
and 'Who' ...the Father is, but... the Son,
and 'He'... to Whom the Son will reveal 'Him'.
(Who's the Daddy?)

Answer 9

If a person believes in reincarnation, then it is the truth for them.

Answer 10

I feel like I've already been here before. And I tell people all the time that I will be back again. I know I won't come back in the same body but I will be back! So I say Truth!