Do you believe in reincarnation?

Question

why or why not?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

As a Buddhist I am a believer in reincarnation. I will say that it is something I struggle with though. It seems to me that it could be a leftover belief from Hinduism. Having said that, I do not believe that reincarnation along with karma are any more ridiculous an explanation for suffering than the idea that new born babies are condemned to hell because of a sin committed by Adam and Eve six thousand years ago.

This is not an attack on Christian belief so much as a defence of Buddhist belief. To say that reincarnation is invalid because it is not in the Bible is a straw man argument because it assumes that I, a Buddhist, believe in the Bible, which misrepresents my beliefs and does not refute any argument for reincarnation.

Answer 3

There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

Answer 4

Definitely.

Historical fact states that Jesus was an Essene rabbi, and his cousin John the Baptist was an Essene. We know that Essenes believed in and taught reincarnation.

We also know, as historical fact, that belief in reincarnation was absolutely, positively an important doctrine of early Christianity -- until the Catholic Church began expanding as a far-reaching political power over kings and foreign leaders. At that time the Church backed up and reinterpreted, edited and retranslated any biblical text that clearly supported the truth of reincarnation, deeming it heresy to believe the things Jesus taught that were related to reincarnation. This was the time when the Church determined it could make more money and amass more power if it appointed itself as the sole decider of mankind's destiny. The word for "grave" was retranslated into "hell", a place of eternal torment -- which was borrowed from the pagan Greek idea of Hades.

It wasn't necessary to remove all the references to reincarnation; the Church merely defined the references a new way, to their advantage. "Really, literally [verily, verily] you must be born again" was interpreted as "You must be baptized by a priest." Jesus's teachings on karma (such as the Beatitudes) were screwed up too, of course. All the changes were designed to make the Christian Church much more powerful, to take the fate of the individual out of his own hands (and God's) and put it into the hands of the Church.

Yes, by the way, of course a man dies once and of course judgment follows that, in terms of analysis of one's past life and karma. Our bodies are not immortal, so we die. But we are reborn.

There is nothing in the bible that disputes reincarnation. There is only the corrupted and biased *interpretation* of certain passages of the bible that dispute it. And it is historically and factually accurate that Jesus was an Essene, that he taught reincarnation and karma, and further that the early Christian Church also taught reincarnation and karma.

Reincarnation is true and is a part of genuine Christianity, as established by Jesus. It's a shame that his beautiful message on this wondrous thing is now demonized by ignorant people who blindly and mistakenly think of themselves as "Christians".

Answer 5

just as there is a limit to the amount of protons in the matrix of a pixel of an experience, so is there a limit to the amount of entries into that realm's pixelation matrix.

to become a syncronous circumstance that is the product of a meditation's idea-ness --> that is the real sort of injustice nowadays if there was ever to be one.

many new age sources claim that reincarnation is a PLAGUE upon this realm.. they are FALSE FALSE FALSE. reincarnate 115 times and upon the 116th incarnation, you shall become the idea that is the gravity B wave that is the fully stretched concept of your natural astheticism/asceticism as if it were behaving of a kind of revelation if in that instance of a reality there is to be one in that art/rhythm hybridizationalness.

Entities that strive to remain in the after-life forever, they eventually are kicked out of heaven and become plants.

My "advice" is to resolve your conflicts w/o the need for advocating an obsessive sort of lack of humility and BE SELFLESS- INCARNATE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!

Answer 6

I believe in reincarnation of the soul but not the body. ALLAH(SWT) puts us to death every night and resurrects us in the morning aside from those who ALLAH(SWT) decides to keep.

Answer 7

yes, same as water evaporates agian it condenses & the infinite cycle of reincarnation goes on..

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

The Bible says nothing about reincarnation.....

reincarnation is a pagan belief, therefore it is of the devil.

Answer 10

There is nothing like re-incarnation; it is all a trick of the devil: it is appointed unto a man once to die and after that, [eternal] judgement.

Answer 11

No.


Why? Because there is no evidence for it, and it strikes me as extremely unlikely in any event. I think that cultures have invented the idea on a hope - i.e. that death isn't the end.