what would you prefer reincarnation or resurrection?

Question

what one seems more logical spiritually

Answer 1

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
PURPORT
Change of body by the atomic individual soul is an accepted fact. Even the modern scientists who do not believe in the existence of the soul, but at the same time cannot explain the source of energy from the heart, have to accept continuous changes of body which appear from childhood to boyhood and from boyhood to youth and again from youth to old age. From old age, the change is transferred to another body. This has already been explained in a previous verse (2.13).
Transference of the atomic individual soul to another body is made possible by the grace of the Supersoul. The Supersoul fulfills the desire of the atomic soul as one friend fulfills the desire of another.

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Conversation between one disciple and Srila Prabhupada.

Disciple: The third type of rebirth is called resurrection, and Jung notes that there are two types of resurrection. "It may be a carnal body, as in the Christian assumption that this body will be resurrected." According to the Christian doctrine, at the end of the world the gross bodies will reassemble themselves and ascend into heaven or descend into hell.

Srila Prabhupäda: This is simply foolishness. The gross material body can never be resurrected. At the time of death the living entity leaves this material body, and the material body disintegrates. How can the material elements reassemble themselves?

Answer 2

Which one would I prefer well myself I would choose reincarnation. others may say resurrection but maybe they have a life that is very meaningful and important to Humanity and to lose them would be a loss to humanity, people such as Ghandi and other great pacifist or scientists like Einstein.

So I can see why some would prefer reincarnation in hopes of being born into a better life than they have now and also others choosing resurrenction because they like their life or others do so much they are just too needed to lose. Imagine if we still had a Leonardo, or a Michael Angelo, Copernicus, Galileo etc etc had they been resurrected.

All those great minds lost.

I think though reincarnation makes more logical sense and this is why, our spirits or souls if you will are energy, granted not normal energy, but energy none the less. We are but vessels that contain that spirit and energy and when it decay;s and our spirit or energy leaves the vessel it is in, then it disperses back into the universe. You cannot kill energy it just is. So I think if life is created it pulls the energy from what is around you at the time to give life to the spirit and if one area has much resination of a former spirits energy that will develop in the new life hence reincarnation so to speak which also explains why many can never remember past lives, because they are not really their past lives, but the past lives of part of the energy used to form your spirit into a new vessel.

Now if you could transfer all of ones energy or Spirit from one vessel to another that would be a sort of resurrection but within a new vessel only all the same spirit.

this is JUST a hypothesis and nothing more, i have nothing to support or back this up but my own opinion so do not take this as factual, it is just MY opinion. I just think it is an interesting one. You can believe in this hypothesis and be either NON religious or you can BE religous and it still applies to both.

Answer 3

Your first question is difficult. I would like to relive the life I have lived but with knowledge that I have today.
To be reincarnated I might end up a poor,stupid, ugly person.
To be average looking and able to think is hard enough. Having good health is also an issue. Can't count on much so I guess if I had to go one way or another I would choose resurrection.
Stupid has been a problem but I have survived.
As for being spiritual, both is all that comes to me.

Answer 4

Reincarnation makes more sense to me as it seems to be saying that the immortal version of yourself that exists in a parallel dimension attatches itself to another being in this dimension.

Resurrection makes less sense, a decomposing cell cannot reform... but if it could I'd sure prefer to be resurrected. Not only would I not have to waste time by painfully re-learning all the basic facts, but I would also be able to make half the people on this website **** their pants in terror! Woo!

Answer 5

I'd prefer to be reincarnated as birth control, so I'll never have to see Christians again (since they not SUPPOSED to use it...) all in all, I believe that reincarnation would be the more logical spiritual choice, it'd be more logical to me anyway, that our spirits or souls or whatever you wanna call them are implanted within another host, than for our half decayed bodies rise up again from the grave...to Resident Evil for me...

Answer 6

As a believer of the Lord Jesus Christ I know the Bible is the true and holy word of God. We read in Hebrews 9:27 the following: "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" There is no hope of repentance after death because death is final. When we are judged by God it will be for the deeds, both good and bad, that we have committed during our lifetime. My choice is resurrection.

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Answer 7

I'd prefer reincarnation. I'd like to think when I die I would have done all I could with my current form and once I am through with this body, I'd like to start a new life as a new life form, be it human, tiger, butterfly, fairy, unicorn, rose, oak, etc. and hopefully learn from my past life and be able to make the world better in my new form.

Answer 8

Reincarnation, by all means. Nobody would want this fat, tired old body anymore, least of all me, if I could try again and be a slim, elegant, intelligent, charming young lady. I figure if I believe in any kind of afterlife (and I'm still thinking about that), it would be reincarnation. We get to keep coming back until we get it right.

Resurrection has no appeal at all for me.

Answer 9

Resurrection. I've had quite enough of reincarnation, thank you.

Answer 10

Resurrection since there is no such thing as reincarnation. Who would want to return to earth and go through suffering and pain again?