Can you name five religions that believe in reincarnation?
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only five? gee I thought there where more then that\nmaybe the right answer will come in another life\nor is it allways at the pearly gates
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1)Hinduism--Vedas, Baghavita(sp.), Upanishads Piranhas.\n\n 2)Zoroastrianism--Zend Avesta.\n\n 3)Judaism--Torah.\n\n 4)Buddhism--Tipakata\n\n 5)Chinese religion(Both Confucian & Taoist)--I Ching.\n\n 6) Christianity--Bible\n\n 7) Mandeanism--Book about St. John the Baptist(can't remember what it is called).\n\n 8)Islam--the Koran.\n\n 9) Sikhism--Guru Granth Sahib\n\n 10)Bahai--Kairatai(sp.)
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Our understanding of the afterlife is so very limited.  I think the common threads throughout many of the religions points to a similar outcome that is probably independant of spiritual flavour.  Our personal spiritual tradition gives us a way of comprehending an incomprehensible concept.
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As a Hindu, yes I believe in reincarnation. The atman sheds one body just as we change clothes, to take on a new body. With each incarnation we have the chance to advance spiritually and eventually achieve moksha. Some can do this is one lifetime, some need several lifetimes. Moksha is a lot like the Buddhist concept of nirvana. Moksha means "liberation" and "union". The Atman is liberated from the cycle of samsara and finds union in Brahman (the word Brahman comes for two Sanskrit words Brih Manah which translates as Great Consciousness or Expanding Consciousness, although it is usually translated into English as Cosmic Consciousness). In many of the Upanishads the message is quite clear that everything is Brahman, everything manifested out of Brahman. The atman is Brahman. Tat tvam asi. Thou art that.
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Reincarnation is a Truth, and if a book does not believe in it Truth does not change.\n\nOur soul starts its journey from chemicals, evolves in plants and animals and reaches Human beings. It has to undergo innumerable sufferings and pains and learn billions of lesson to prgoress towards its next evolutionary stage i.e. divinity.\n\nAnd one life is not enough for all these lessons.  That also is the reason behind differnt type of peoples..why some are born rich, some are born poor, some idiots some intelligence.  Even two children of the same parents, in the same environment do not progress alike... Reincarnation is the answer !!\n\nWhen we die, we die with a mental state, where we have some unfulfilled desires...some subtle some gross.  The soul after death passes to some astral worlds where it prepares for the next birth, where it can continue its progress towards its evolution (mental evo..not physical)\n\nHinduism has concerete logics to prove re-incarnation.
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I haven't been able to find a website with that name, but here is a list of the world religions...
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Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Zoroastrian, and I think Buddhism.\n\n*Shinto and Confusism as well if they count as religions as apposed to phillosphys.
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http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/astralplane/a/afterlife.htm
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hehe\n\nGreat question. If God were Buddhist what would She do with Christians? Reincarnate them, they must achieve nirvana on their own by seperating from attachments and striving only for God (although Buddhism leaves the question of whether there is or is not a God up to the individual, but they do not believe that there is an individualized soul. So if God were Buddhist then God has apparently already reached the conclusion that there is a God, but She then also says there is no individualized soul that reincarnates, the essence of us is what reincarnates according to Buddhism). \n\nGreat question. I enjoyed this one. Thanks!!!
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Yes I believe in the eternal soul and reincarnation
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No, not reincarnation.\n\nBut The Qur'an talks about being raised again on the day of judgement.\nAs humans were created from nothing, and will die and turn into dust, God, the Almighty, can raise the dead again.\nHe is the most powerful, the most forgiving.
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Reincarnation is a truth and even if a religion/book does not accept it, it does not become untruth.\n\n   all of us hve undergone many lives and we will be enjoying/suffering many more lives to reach divinity.\n\nOur soul starts its journey from chemicals, evolves in plants and animals and reaches Human beings. It has to undergo innumerable sufferings and pains and learn billions of lesson to prgoress towards its next evolutionary stage i.e. divinity.\n\nAnd one life is not enough for all these lessons. That also is the reason behind differnt type of peoples..why some are born rich, some are born poor, some idiots some intelligence. Even two children of the same parents, in the same environment do not progress alike... Reincarnation is the answer !!\n\nWhen we die, we die with a mental state, where we have some unfulfilled desires...some subtle some gross. The soul after death passes to some astral worlds where it prepares for the next birth, where it can continue its progress towards its evolution (mental evo..not physical)...these astral planes' working is quite similar to hells and heavens mentioned by religions...but the main purpose of these astral planes is not to punish or reward but to work out our desires and prepare us for our next birth\n\nHell and heaven are tools of religions to keep uncivilised human into some check... for a little evolved minds it is astral planes for purging or working the subtle desires \n\n    I remember many of my past lives, and i can relate my todays sufferings/joys to my karmas done in that life\n\n  And I know, what I am doing today, I am desigining my body for the next birth.  My desires, unfulfilled in this life, my karmas of this birth, will be deciding factors for my next life
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Because of their belief in reincarnation
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Reincarnation is a truth ... If your book does nto mention it, Truth does not become false...\n\nReincarnation is perhaps a wrong word used...hindus and Buddhists use  Re-Birth instead.\n\nOur soul starts its journey in chemicals...and after each awakening find itself in plants, animals and finally human beings. \n\nAs humans we have to learn millions of lessons of pains and joys, richness and poverties, cruelty and kindness, killing and be killed, ...till we reach our next mind evolution i.e. Divinity.\n\nOne life is not sufficient for all these lessons. hence our soul after death goes to another body to learn other sets of lessons\n\nThe paradoxes as to why some are born rich some poor, some without mind or without limbs...some from poverty going to utter richness...some spiritual from childhood... can not be explained without Reincarnation\n\nDont ask proof, because no one can give proof of God or heaven/hell...there are certain things which are beyond physical proofs\nMany during the hypnotic state have remembered their last birth.\n\nWhy we dont remember past birth? Because Nature does not want us to get entangled to our last relations...so that we can freely learn new lessons...that z why She takes away the gross memory at death..and leads soul to new body with the resultant progress earned during last births.
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Who knows. My intention is to shop around...check out various afterlives, see if there are any good reincarnations available, that sort of thing.
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I believe we have one life on earth (no reincarnation) followed ultimately by the judgment after which we receive eternal life with God (sometimes called heaven) or separation from God (i.e., the negative afterlife, sometimes called hell).\n\nFor those who enter the positive afterlife, I think we will continue to grow and progress.\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org
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The idea of reincarnation, from my understanding, appears in Indian Hinduism.  In these cultures there is the caste system, untouchables at the lowest, most subserviant end of society and Brahmans at the highest end.  There is very little social mobility;  You cannot change caste in one life time.\nElevation in life's standing come through leading a good life.  If un untouchable lives a bad life he could expect to come back as an elephant or cow.  If he was a bad cow, he might come back as a goat.  A Good Braham enters the first level of heaven and even there, there are levels, 14 I think.\nAs a westener, I find this a facinating insight as to how our culture forms our faith stories.  Notice the principle is the same in ours and theirs: Be good and you will be rewarded.