May I know why christians don't buy reincarnation please?
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We base our beliefs in the books of the Bible. In the Bible we learn about being born again spiritually but not carnally.
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Keep reading the Bible with an open mind.\n\nOne thing to remember is that Christianity is originally an EASTERN religion.  It grew out of the EAST and now was sanitized by the west.  One of the things that was whipped away was any notion of reincarnation.  However, it is apparent that the main characters in the Bible, were coming from that kind of Eastern thought.\n\nTake this as another example: MATT 11:\n12From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. 13For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. 14And if you are willing to accept it, ***he is the Elijah who was to come***. 15He who has ears, let him hear.\n\nJohn is Elijah????\n\nOr what about this (mainly to demonstrate what was the natural assumption of the people of that time):Matthew 16:13-15  \n 13When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" \n 14They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." \n 15"But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"\n\nReincarnation was a promenent thought of that time.  One COULD miss this in scripture, but it would be hard to do.
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Reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", as a doctrine or mystical belief, holds the notion that some essential part of a human being (or in some interpretations, any living being) can survive death in some form, with its integrity partly or wholly retained, to be reborn in a new body. This part is often referred to as the Spirit or Soul, the 'Higher or True Self', 'Divine Spark', 'I' or the 'Ego' (not to be confused with the ego as defined by psychology).\n\nIn such beliefs, a new personality is developed during each life in the physical world, based upon past integrated experience and new acquired experiences, but some part of the being remains constantly present throughout these successive lives as well. It is usually believed that there is interaction between predeterminism of certain experiences, or lessons intended to happen during the physical life, and the free-will action of the individual as they live that life.
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Funny how Christians can explain away the incest as "necessary" to populate the world. Another example that people can blindly accept the words of the bible.\n\nWhy can't god just create more humans so that they don't have to inbreed? Or does god PLAN for us to inbreed??? Utter bulls**t!
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Many have sold their souls...meaning, they have exchanged them for wealth and fame in this fleeting, temporal world in a bargain with Satan and his forces.\n\nSelling your soul = agreeing to never turn to God in this life.  In exchange, the temporal wealth, fame, or fortune is promised and delivered...by Satan.  Once one has made this decision, there is no turning back...just like there is NO turning back for any of the fallen angels who made their decision to follow Satan and not God.\n\nSatan is in the business of using as many human agents (dupes) as possible to help accomplish his purposes of keeping as many humans from turning to God as possible. \n\nDon't be one of Satan's dupes.  There is a far better alternative with far better consequences with much longer benefits...it's called eternal life with God.\n\n"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE"  John 3:16\n\nSatan does not want people to understand this.\n\nDon't choose the road to Shamballa.
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there is a difference between Christians and born again Christians, maybe it has something to do with being born again. LOL
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April, salvation is a gift that you have to receive but I believe you can also later reject it. Look at the parable of the sower were seed was sown on different ground. Jesus said IF you remain in me I will remain in you. I would loved to believe in once saved always saved but there are just to many warnings in the bible. We still have free will once we are saved, God is not going to drag anybody into heaven. I know the devil sure doesn't give up once your saved. I also don't believe it's something that you can loose just like that for committing a sin and dieing at that moment. I believe you are in danger when you make a conscience decision to go back to the world. I believe that this is easier for a new christian than a more mature one. I don't believe a christian has to live in fear of loosing their salvation.
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If reincarnation is real, please don't send me back.\n\nBeyond that, I'd be so happy to be there that I doubt I'd say anything.
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Interesting idea, but NO! Not at all.\n\n'Christian' is NOT one of the realms of reincarnation. (samsara) the realms are: The realm of Devas(gods); the realm of Asuras (Demigods); the realm of Humans; the realm of Animals; the realm of Hungry Ghosts and the realm of Hell.\n\nI was born into a Christian family and I am a Buddhist. I do not see being born into a Christian home misfortunate or bad in any way. I learned a great deal. \n\nI look at it this way. According to Buddhism, enlightenment is not given or bestowed, it is self realized. If a person is ready to realize the truth, what faith (s)he comes from is irrelevant. (S)He will find enlightenment when (s)he is ready.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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I recommend that you look into the folklore literature which will demonstrate how similar the bible and its themes are to other mythologies. Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung are excellent authors to start with. Christians basically believe what every other faith believes. Their way is the only TRUE path to God. In my opinion (as a Christian) that's incredibly narrow-minded. If you've read the Chronicles of Narnia (and if you haven't you should) the last chapter of book 7 "The last Battle" has a scene where Aslan (Christ) allows a young man who was a follower of Tash (another god/demon) into the real Narnia (Heaven) because his actions were congruent with the Aslan's teachings even though the young man didn't realize it. Basically I believe that those who are following Christ's spirit or philosophy even if they're not doing so in name have as much if not more truth than most christians.
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Reincarnation is a componant part of the Vedic religion, the only way to understand it, is to understand your real identity as an eternal spirit soul, rather then the material body. Vedic understanding must be learned in its entirity to gain knowledge of the science of reincarnation and release from the cycle of the repetition of birth and death.\n\nWith this in mind, there is no question that reincarnation is a reality, we, as individual spirit souls are reincarnating within these very bodies, the material body is composed of gross molecules and atomic particles,that are constantly changing, every seven years each cell is completely replaced, so the body we had seven years ago is different to the body we have now, this is reincarnation, even within this life.\n\nAt the end of this life when the gross material body is no longer operational, being simply a temporary biological machine, then the subtle material mind replays the events of one's life, those events in one's life that are most prominant propel the spirit soul, the real self, to the next destination, the basis for this to happen is by the activities that we perform and the desires that are most prominant, man proposes and God disposes.\n\nIf we live a spiritual life, with activities and desires to please the Supreme, then the original spiritual body is revived and we can return home, back to Godhead, however if the desires are more worldly then we will attain another material body either gross or subtle, perfectly suited to the mentality that we have developed whilst being in the human form of life, there are many living entities that remain in their subtle or astral forms, due to attachments to relatives and places during their last life, therefore the knowledge of the science of reincarnation is of paramount importance to understand.\n\nThe early Christian church also taught reincarnation, up untill the 6th century A.D., in 553 A D when the Roman empire started to collapse, the emperor Justinian at the 5th Ecumenical council at Constantinople removed and altered the teachings of Jesus to gain more social control over the uneducated masses, by establishing the "scare tactic" of a singular life, as anyone who opposed these types of alterations was considered a heretic, it is not difficult to understand how these gross misconceptions came to be accepted.\n\nReincarnation is supported by many well known texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the wisdom of the Buddah, however it is largely rejected in Western religious thought, which has a preference for a faith only system of salvation that abdicates responsibility for evil onto a personality known as the devil and responsibility for sin to be absorbed by the victim of an act of barbaric murder 2000 years ago.
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If you'r a Christian and a true believer, then what is it thats confusing you. Don't you read the Bible? Where does it say anywhere in the Bible that anyone except Jesus ever came back from the dead to live a new life? No, I do not believe in past lives.
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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation\nnot exist
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Transformation is not a free gift according to Christianity. WHo told you that?\n\nI am not a Buddhist by the way but your question has a major flaw in that it has no basis for truth.  If you want to find out abut transformation, you must know the ONE who transforms the heart and , sorry but it is not Buddha\n\nPlease read Romans Chapter 12 verses 1-2
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I can point you in  direction that Christians will not like at all, my friend. Look at the Creation: it consists of possibly infinite number of parallel universes, each containing billions and billions of galaxies, each one with billions and billions of stars.\n\nThe only way the Bible can possibly be true, is if the God that Christians believe in is limited to the solar system or just this planet. I don't believe that is true at all. You have asked a very sensible question.\n\nIf there is one God (yes, I do believe that) then 'He' is the God of the whole Creation and we are but tiny little specks on the edge of one galaxy. What the Bible says only matters to the people who were alive when they wrote it - and they didn't know anything about astronomy or science as we know it.\n\nThis doesn't mean that the Bible is all rubbish - there is lots of wisdom in there about how to lead a good life and get on with your neighbours and all that. But when it comes to unscientific dogma and tortured theology, it's now time to take it all with a pinch of salt.\n\nThere are Christians who enjoy this kind of question and are not fightened of them. If you are interested, you could try the Quakers, the Bah'ai faith, Unitarians, the Progressive Christianity Network, etc.\n\nDon't be frightened to 'think outside the box' - it's your divine intelligence to ask good questions and seek proper answers.
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That question has many answears depending on your believes. You can go to heaven, you can reincarnate in something else, or become nothing after your life cycle ends. There is really no answear to a question like that, for no one knows the answear
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Yes. Reincarnation doesn't require faith; it just is. One of the biggest attractions of Christianity and organized religion in general is its unconscious familiarity to persons who were acquainted with it in past lives. Religion in particular has a strong attraction to the reincarnated individual because religion embodies the concept of the eternal soul and the afterlife. Christianity especially appeals to persons who have a vague and muddled sense of having lived before -- this is why they seem to feel a mysteriously "this is so right" bond with Jesus Christ, why they feel in some inexplicable way (to themselves) that they feel his "presence." And it's not just memories of the church in past lives they're sensing; it's also the deep empathy they feel with the concepts of dying and being resurrected (as represented by Jesus and the Christian faith), down deep in their soul. Devout Christians sometimes affirm reincarnation through their mystical and magical devotion to the Christian religion. \n\nAlthough modern Christianity is inclined to vehemently deny its connection to reincarnation through the teachings of Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls are evidence that Jesus was a leader among the Jewish sect known as the Essenes; Essenes were devout Jews who believed that the end of the world was near, in baptism, communal life, vegetarianism, reincarnation, healing and peace. Of course, modern day Christianity refuses to believe Jesus was an Essene and a Reincarnationist, but their refusal to accept Jesus as he really was doesn't change the truth.