why is it so hard to believe in reincarnation?

Question

I would love to have another chance to come back and live another life, a chance to see how others live, since we are all so different, different choices, etc. I hope it is true.

please dont say it isnt biblical, you cant prove that.

yes, I have heard, man is to die once then be judged, what you think we dont get judged after the first life here and we come back as the same person, come on, use you brain.

there is still a resurection even with reincarnation, where you get there isnt, is just blindness

inteleyes but most people will say your spirit guide is a demon, so of course reincarnation is from satan

Answer 1

It is not hard to understand why people want to believe, but I would have to believe in a soul to believe in reincarnation.

Answer 2

I think it's so hard for Christians to believe in reincarnation because they think reincarnation is "too easy". At least I've heard a few say that. And if you push them for an explanation it all comes down to their inability to believe that "God" could be *that* loving, *that* patient, *that* endlessly forgiving that "He" should allow people to be reborn again and again "until they get it right".

Christians prefer an angry, vindictive and spiteful deity who will reward them for walking the straight and narrow while punishing everyone else with hellfire and eternal damnation. From a Reincarnationist's point of view, Christians like those (which means the majority of Christians) actually have a very low opinion of their God underneath all their fearful praise and hallelujah Jesuses. In reality they see "God" as a sort of Jeckyl/Hyde sadist, although they'd never have the courage or honesty to admit it.

Reincarnation IS true. But I think some part of you knows that already. Pick up a copy of "Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery". Great reading.

Answer 3

You have come back Cindy. Haven't you ever met someone for the first time and felt as if you knew them forever? Or met someone for the first time and had an immediate dislike and put up your guard with them? It is your past life memories.

Now to say a few things to some of the answers you got.

Thomas Paine: True we die one then comes the judgment THEN we come back again. Open your eyes.

Puppy lover: You CAN remember them. I have and many others have also.

Conundrum: How does that make any sense?

TubeDude: What does reincarnation have to do with ANTS?

Neil: True…and there are other scriptures regarding reincarnation also.

Seriously: I love it. LOL

Yeow: Way to Gooooooo!!! You DO understand.

Inteleyes: Way to Goooooo!!! YES…we can and do experience our past lives.

Answer 4

You can believe all you want, no problem ..... just don't push it down to others.

(I believe in reincarnation over the heaven and hell thing too)

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Uncle Remus 53, as I see the hypothesis of reincarnation, it does not diminishes the importance of the life now, instead it emphasis on that. Reincarnation takes the view what you do now will affect your next life and the life after next, therefore if you steal, plunder and/or murder this life, you will get your retribution in your next life. Therefore you have to discipline yourself in your current life. Your next life is highly dependent on your current life.

In the hypothesis of reincarnation .... aliens ARE reincarnated beings from other places, reincarnation does not mean you must come back to this earth. In buddhist view, there are many other worlds around, earth is just a speck of dust.

In buddhist view, when you die, you leave everything behind, except your awareness which will be reincarnated (put it this way, energy do not disappear, it just convert to another form) based on what had you done this life and/or previous life and you will be transported to the next destination, maybe in this earth, maybe in another inhabitable planet billions of light years away. Some has attachment so strong, it can sometime make a person reborn in the same place he / she was, to the same family.

(But heck, these are all hypothesis that had not been verified, therefore I had never preach it, before ;P)

Answer 5

Is it any more difficult o believe in reincarnation than it is to believe in a man being born of a virgin, or resurrecting from the dead?

Reincarnation is the most widespread concept of an "afterlife" that humanity has ever envisioned. There's evidence that Gnostic Christians accepted that belief, and the Biblical phrase "In my Father's house, there are many mansions." is often cited as a reference to the concept. (Within one life there are many lives.) Research into Past Life Regression has provided us with a wealth of possibilities, and the possible existence of multiple layers of time and dimension is fascinating.

To Buddhists, reincarnation is a cycle - called "samsara" - from which our spirits desire to escape.

In the end...it's your responsibility, and gift, to choose your beliefs. There's a lot of information and opinion out there - sorting through it all is the job of a lifetime...or several lifetimes.

Have fun.

Answer 6

It's not hard for me since I had so many experiences with my spirit guide that gives me memory of my pass life's.
I also remember as a young child, I had memory of many people, sometimes many in my head, with detail of their faces, and not knew why I was having this at that time..... now I know it was memory of another time, dead people.
I know I road a horse a lot, because in this life I never been not even on a pony, but I feel and know I can ride very well.... lol like I do my motorcycle....like a warrior.

The pass memory or dream my spirit guide gave me was..... I lived in this village with all these people. Something happen and we took sides, it was like a civil war. I killed many of them, and for some reason, I got tired and went to sleep on the ground, in the middle of battle that took all day. When I woke up, almost everyone was dead, my spirit guide was standing by my side as if she was protecting me.
I believe what she was telling me through the pass memory dream that she gave me is.... no matter how many battles I have she will be there for me. Perhaps it was her that stood by my side all my life. She came the day I prayed to God for help and protection three years ago.
I was told she is my spirit guide, and that she knows me from another life:) perhaps she was my wife in that life.... she is so protective of me, she touches with comfort like an angel..... I seen her so many times now as spirit.

Answer 7

Because some people believe differently... you shouldn't let something like that bother you. If you want everyone to think the same way you do, you're fighting a losing battle. I happen to believe strongly in reincarnation, but I'm not going to bother myself by worrying about or harassing people who don't believe the same things as I do.

Answer 8

The one draw back I see with reincarnation is that it diminishes the importance of the life I live now.

And well I don't want to become a insect or plant if I do come back. I want to be a being better than a man if the rules of reincarnation will allow that to be possible. That poses a new question. What if aliens are nothing more than reincarnated spirits of the departed.? Did you ever think of that?

Answer 9

iIt is not, It depends on where on Eartha nd what religous traditon one ascribes to. In most of Christianity and the other monotheistic, emperic faiths the idea is inconcievable. However in most of the the non-monotheistic as well as polyeistic faiths it is a matter of fact. What I am saying is as to how easy or hard it is to believe in reincarnation depends on the cultural,ehtnic, spitiual mindset you come form. On a related note to thos who flat out deny it do not be so narrow minded, remember that there are people who (about half of the human race) who believe in it and find the idea of one lifetime to be inconcievable.

Answer 10

Reincarnation is in the Bible. When the disciples ask Jesus whether a man "blind from birth" is blind because of his sin (must mean in a previous life, no matter how Jesus answers) or the sin of his parents.

But there is no evidence for reincarnation.

Answer 11

Is not too hard. In Bhagavad gita God says:
"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be."

"As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change."
Bg. Chapter 2 text 12-13

We are made of two energies, one spiritual(the soul) and the other material(the body).
The soul is covered with the gross and sublte body(made of mind, intelligence and ego).
When a man dies, he quits the gross body, but the subtle body of mind, intelligence and ego carries him to a new body. While existing in the present body, the same subtle body carries him from one stage of life to another (for example, from childhood to boyhood) by mental development. The mental condition of a baby is different from that of a boy, the mental condition of a boy is different from that of a young man, and the mental condition of a young man is different from that of an old man. So at death the process of changing bodies takes place due to the subtle body; the mind, intelligence and ego carry the soul from one gross body to another. This is called transmigration of the soul. But there is another stage, when one becomes liberated even from the subtle body; at that time the living entity is competent and fully prepared to be transferred to the transcendental or spiritual world. That may be called the last jugment.
Why we don't remember previous lives?
We forget our past lives in the same way that a person with amnesia forgets his past. Just as amnesia is caused by a traumatic psychological experience or physical injury, the severe trauma of death and rebirth erases the memory of our previous life.
But what is the ultimate importance of my knowing that in my past life I had the body of an American or a Russian, a cow or a dog? The crucial thing is to remember who the eternal "I" is who undergoes all these changes of bodies. The Vedic scriptures, especially Bhagavad-gitä As It Is, can reveal to us who we really are behind the facade of bodily identification. By hearing Lord Krishna's instructions in the Bhagavad-gitä As It Is and acting on them, we gradually awaken to our real identity as a pure spiritual being, an eternal loving servant of the Supreme Spirit, God. With this understanding all our curiosity about past, present or future lives will be satisfied and at the end we go back to God.

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