To those who believe in reincarnation, how do u explain it?

Question

How can a small civilization of souls grow? Or is it just a few souls the ones that keep on "finding" new bodies? I don't get it.

Answer 1

You will get a better idea of the truth of reincarnation by listening to the stories of people from SE Asia, about small children who remember their previous life for a short time.
Until we go to the other side we won't really know all the mechanics of the process but here's my take on it.
Life exists to create souls, that is procreation creates souls. And sometimes souls that were created in an earlier life are reborn. That's the mechanics.
The "Why" is the more important question. God has promised that all souls will have a chance at redemption. The only way for that to happen is to be born again, born of the spirit. This is done by surrendering your your sins to the only one who can take them from you, Jesus. The "Why" for that is; Sin cannot enter the presence of God, and all humans carry a lot of sin we have taken on ourselves ( accept of course small innocent children. No such thing as Original Sin, that was made up by some Pope). The sin Jesus takes from those who ask him too was burned away after his crucifixion when he was separated from God, and was in Hell.
So the reason for reincarnation is so all souls get the chance at redemption, some get the chance many times over.

Answer 2

what do you mean "small civilization"?

firstly, theres not like, a fixed number of souls, new ones are brought into "circulation" and old ones, don't die, but rather reunite with God,

and within THAT circulation theres this plane, and others that they go through, (this isn't the only world that people incarnate on, or the only form in which souls can incarnate)

its all laid out in a very complex and massive-scale way.

"your soul" is actually who you are. its your real self that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after your current body dies.

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who said all the souls were created at once? I've not heard of anyone who really belives in reincarnation who has ever thought that.

but *even* if you did, it does not mean that all the souls that were created, had been "dispatched" at the same time, and ones that were still in their original form, as they were created, would not really have had any experiences in THIS form, so the "age" would still be an appropriate scale.

Answer 3

I believe in reincarnation because I can't imagine that any other possibility is true. God creates souls as needed, I think. And the ones that are already created continue to occupy new bodies as needed. When something is born, it gets a soul, whether it is a sapling, ewe, baby, or otherwise.

Answer 4

As I see it, it is thus. All matter is energy and all energy, matter. While you yet live, much of your energy is in material form. When you die, your consciousness is released and your matter eventually breaks down into other things. Some other kinds of matter and some energies. What it was that composed "you" then becomes part of multiple new or growing things in various, probably unrecognizable forms. Thus "you" become something else. Eventually some of that matter and energy will most likely interact with other living things and become part of them. In this way, "you" become someone else.

I am actually still discovering what it is that I believe in this regard. I would like to think that some memories or personality traits follow some of this energy to its new forms, but I think that might just be my human need to not be forgotten. I'm sure by the time you read this I will have been influenced by the world further and have changed my opinion in this matter. Hope I helped, though.

Answer 5

Reincarnation happens to everyone.

It's like--after you die, you can go to four places.
-Buddhist Heaven, and three different 'hells.' In one, you're reincarnated as an animal. The other two are like torture, i think. I haven't studied for my Temple school for awhile...anyway.

You don't stay in any of these places forever: you have a certain amount of Karma when you die, good or bad. In heaven, after you 'use up' your good karma in heaven [which, don't worry, takes awhile] you are reborn into another body--probably human if you've been REALLY good. In any of the hells, you have to 'use up' all your bad Karma [sorry, takes awhile] before you can get reborn. Even then, it might not be a happy thing. For example, if you had a thing for smushing defenseless roly-poly's in your past life, you might be reincarnated as a roly-poly.

That's all I know. I can't say its 100 percent accurate cause i'm working from memory. You can fidn osme interesting things if you google it.

Answer 6

one thing I never got about reincarnation is how all souls were supposedly created at once but yet people who believe in that stuff say that some souls are old and others are young

inconsistent!

Answer 7

It's just like the recycling program. Create a bottle, use a bottle. Either throw it away or put it in the recycle box. Plastic gets melted down and made into a new bottle. Most of the time you mix in some new plastic.

Answer 8

personally i think that there are a handful of "immortals" who reincarnate continually, a few that are reborn a couple times and go on, and a bunch of once-borns that keep coming with the population increase.

Answer 9

Hebrews 9:27 " And it is appointed unto man , once to die after this the judgment ".

Answer 10

Good question, I'd not thought of it that way, I had a friend who believed in it but he explained that he believed in it because it suited him to believe in it....