Reincarnation

no because i believe that we have one soul and we either go t heaven or hell after we die.

no because i believe that we have one soul and we either go t heaven or hell after we die.

Asha,

I do not believe in reincarnation. I totally agree with Leighann.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement:

Be Blessed

There is reincarnation for some of us.  Why I think this is not something I discuss in public.

Ignoring Tippy, let us resort to reason.

What could reincarnation possibly prove?  I know lots of losers who hope for a second chance, and feel that their miseries in life are dur to "bad karma" or something, but on an empirical basis, reincarnation is utter nonsense.

However, some Hindu, Muslim, Arabic, Christian, Jewish, and Zororastrian texts show an unnerving but quite real fact: we DID exist before our mortal incarnation.

We were unembodied spirits before there was ever a need to create the Universe.  God ruled in His Heaven and all was order.  It was peace and contentment.  It was the way God wanted it to be.

Then, Lucifer, the bringer of Light, felt the presence of spirits God made after He made Lucifer.  Lucifer became jealous of the improvements God made.  Lucifer then lied to those God made later, and got us to take sides. 

2/3 sided with God.

1/3 sided with Lucifer.  That was the Satanic Rebellion.  We who rebelled figured out that Satan lied to us and got us to take sides.  Satanists still do so today.  It is not important to them what side we take as long as a satanist working in the disguise of a Christian got us to take sides.  That is the nature of sin itself.  These hypocrites cannot ever repent.

God created an illision for us to live in that was so convincing that we who are confined to it, for the short while we are alive, would think that there was nothing else.  Yet we have managed to find the truth through Divine Inspiration.

Only that way could we truly be ourselves, and choose for ourselves.  God makes His presence known, and Satan harasses us intensely through lies and intimidation, but past that, we are on our own.

God knows our misery.  God will have us back once we pass the tests of mortality and prove what is actually in us.  When we show genuine Christian faith, then and only then can Christ apply to our overdrawn account the fund of holiness we need to get back with God.

What would reincarnation prove -- going back over the same old courses time and again, proving only what we knew the first time through?

There are an infinite number of spirits to redeem, and a finite number of Universes for us to come to mortality.  Christ's gift here will redeem the lost on Proxima Centauri also.  And an infinity of universes beyond this one.

Search your feelings.  Consider your insight.  If that is not so, then what else could have happened?  Eventually, we come back to these facts our forefathers also knew.

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

If you will not carry out your instructions now, would a thousand more lifetimes make a difference?

The answer to your question is no.  Why?  Because it is no where in the Bible.

Reincarnation has different meanings to different people. 

For some, it means a constant recycling of souls from one body to another.    The celebrated "recalled memory" from hypnosis regressing to an asserted past life of Bridie Murphy in Ireland is an example of that.  Unfortunately, that case turned out to be a hoax.

Some New Agers believe in reincarnation.   Same as they do in a range of types of green cheese.   In general, wishful thinking or fascination with the might-be or might-have-been.   Credulity without either evidence or any moral purpose behind it.   Why bother?

For Buddhists, belief in KARMA (reincarnation) means that the essence of each living thing does not die but is endlessly reborn in a different form, higher or lower, depending on how one has lived in the present life.

For Christians and Muslims, the concept is quite different.   They believe (broadly) not in a cycle of reincarnations but in a single resurrection of the dead to a once-for-all judgment about one's fate in eternity, based on how one has lived in the present life (or more accuretely, in the case of Christians, of whether one has accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour and has persevered in a state of redemption from sin).

The main monotheistic faiths share with Buddhism a belief that one's fate in the next ('final' for Christians and Muslims) life depends on one's actions in the present life.

I'm a Christian.   I see absolutely no evidence for believing in Buddhist-type karma - though I certainly concede that the ethical precepts that flow from it are generally very benign.    Respect for all forms of life is not a bad principle.

I can't "prove" the existence of the soul, or of its resurrection.   Those are matters of faith and, specifically in several places in the New Testament, of hope ...  for example, Titus 3:7  "...so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life";  and  Colossians 1:27 "..the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory".

I read those very much in conjunction with 1 John1:9 :  "If we confess our since, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."     And also, John 3:16 :   "For God so loved the world, that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life".

Those are clear promises .... and offer the Christian a far greater hope than anything in the Koran does to the Muslim!

All we know are appearances (phenomena) composed of two components: 1.sensations or impressions on the senses. 2.concepts. Both are purely subjective. So, what is it that appears? That we have no possibility of knowing. Kant calls it the "the thing in itself". We ourselves are or belong to a thing in itself. Our body and our senses belong to the world of appearances and Science deals only with phenomena. Since we have no direct access to the things in themselves, we can only think about them. These thoughts are organized in belief systems such as philosophies or religions. There is no good reason why we as things in themselves should disappear when our bodies die. Is a violinist no longer a violinist when he has lost his violin? Give him another violin and you will see.