Do you believe in reincarnation?

Question

If so, why?

Answer 1

Yes, I do. It is how we keep returning to learn more Life Lessons until we learn all of them and become fully enlightened. Even if I were not of my religion, I would believe in it. Reincarnation was also a tenent of Christianity until 553, when some man decided it shouldn't be taught anymore.

Answer 2

No, but of any of the afterlife scenarios it is the only one that I could envision working complementary with what we know of science, human psychology, and physics.

1)Energy can never be destroyed nor created, only change forms. This matches the reincarnation archetype best obviously.

2)Two of the afterlife scenarios are very philosophically flawed. Religion is, and has always been based on little more than culture. 3/4 of the global population will carry on their parents beliefs, child indoctrination is highly psychological, so the judgment by belief systemis a very twisted belief. The works only is also very twisted, as our attitude is directly related to our nature vs nurture equation.

However, if we were on a spiritual journey, each life learning things we need to learn to continue to grow, this perfectly explains not only evil, but the different situations, both financially, medically, and psychologically, people are born with.

Not to mention that while religious experiences (NDEs and visions) can be explained scientifically and reproduced in the lab, their have been many children who have accurately described the lives of people in other parts of the world who have died and been incredibly accurate. People they couldn't have known, and much more information than they could just remember.

Both Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein, strong religious skeptics, were for more study into reincarnation.

Answer 3

Yes ....

If you took a line and extended it from where you are to, say the sun. Say that line represented all of eternity from beginning to end (yes I know eternity had no end, but work with me here). Then take a very sharp pencil and poke a dot somewhere on that line ...

That dot is equivalent, and probably exaggerated, to the time we get on earth. That is all the time I have to "get my spiritual path right."

I have a big problem with that. Eternity is like going through school. If you don't get it right (your life down a spiritual path), you repeat the grade all over again.

Lets keep in mind reincarnation is, or was, in every belief system on earth (Atheist being the exception). Yes Christianity to until Constantine thought it was a bad idea for people to think they would have all of eternity to get themselves on the right path.

Peace and love to you

Answer 4

As a Christian I am not supposed to. However when Jesus asked his disciples "Who do people say that I am?" One said Elisha-a long ago prophet who died ages before Jesus was born. Jesus could have said then and there "There is no reincarnation" and settled the question once and for all. He did not say that. If Jesus did not say it then whom am I to say that?
When Jesus mother, Mary, visited her cousin, Martha, the unborn baby in Martha moved at the sound of Mary's voice-that baby was John the Baptist. Martha believed Mary about the divine conception in part because of that.

Answer 5

Why not? Most major religions have some form of reincarnation. I don't personally believe in any of them, but I really want to come back as a platypus. That would be so cool.

Answer 6

Maybe. I believe I will decay and become another part of the circle of life on earth. That in a sense is reincarnation. Kinda scary, but it makes you more attuned to the earth itself. I am willing to believe that some part of "me" will live within those new lives my present self will become.

You know how lots of people say they feel "full of life" or can "feel their soul" or other feelings to the effect? Perhaps that is the collective sense of life that we carry from all of the atoms that contain some essence of what has lived before...

Answer 7

There are people that seem to inexplicably know facts about others that lived in the past.

Elijah was reincarnated as John the Baptist so I'm often confused as to why a Christian would deny it.

As for me, I simply don't know.

Answer 8

because i have had memories of someone else's life
but i don't believe in a soul.. i believe in the reincarnation of thoughts and the way things are viewed by a person can be passed on.

Answer 9

Do I believe in reincarnation?
Not in this lifetime!

Answer 10

Are we not called "Sons of Man" and are we not called "Sons of God".

So one is the achievement of the flesh and another is the achievement of the Spirit. How can it be said that God said, "I will put my spirit in you" so therefore if God can live in You, so can other spirits, so I think a spirit can incarnate or reincarnate, given God's will.

Now as for men, If we believe in God's justice, and that God's will is over all things, we have to think:

"There most be a reason for a soul to be born where that soul is born" For where there is absence of actions, and where truth is considered to be only one, There must be a reason to be born in or out of the true faith,

What makes a baby to be born in a hiddeous ideology or religion, or with not religion at all. What makes a baby to be born poor, or rich? The answer is as follows...

...Every soul is pure and loved to God. We are born in the society that we have created, and what is born to you is a product of yourself, so the son of a man is the son of a man because the son is an extension or expansion of his father's own flesh and genes and roots of the spirit goes along with it. (Epigenetics) Now the diversity goes in that a man chooses one woman and another man chooses a different woman and they will be one flesh.

And the epigenetics of one extends to one or the other or a greater or lower mix of both. (Epigenetics)

Now the body consumes, as the spirit consumes, What the spirit consumes comes from our social environment (psycology-house education.
sociology-interrelations,
philosophy-personal reasoning,
ideology-social forms,
beliefs-spritual identity) When this tools fall in hands of men seeking profits, then the self is lost, when this tools fall in hands of evil spirits then the spirit is lost.

So God can incarnate a prophetic spirit in a man, and he can also give a baby a special spirit along with the (epigenetics) but both the prophetic spirit and the man's spirit will be judged accordingly both together and separate.

So when a baby is born the father lives in him, and when the baby dies the father weeps because a part of him is lost. But not completely it lives in the father's spirit, in his mind, soul, wahtever you want to call it.

So reincarnation is both true and false.

Jesus. I am in my father, and my father is in me. He was divinely conceived so his spirit and the spirit above him was that of God, also made in his image that we can see and we don't have to follow cheating spirits (by being religious in the character of the Messiah, not by following religions in the character of murders and robbers)