Like i said, im not here to judge people on their beliefs. I'm new to this forum and i really like everything about it.
My beliefs in Reincarnation is solely based on the
principles that jesus thought in the second testament.
i took this part from a site---------------------------
In tracing the origin of the Bible, one is led to AD 325, when Constantine the Great called the First Council of Nicaea, composed of 300 religious leaders. Three centuries after Jesus lived, this council was given the task of separating divinely inspired writings from those
of questionable origin.The actual compilation of the Bible was an incredibly complicated project that involved churchmen of many varying beliefs, in an atmosphere of dissension, jealousy, intolerance, persecution and
bigotry. At this time, the question of the divinity of Jesus had split the church into two factions. Constantine offered to make the little-known Christian sect the official state religion if the Christians would settle their differences. Apparently, he didn't particularly care what
they believed in as long as they agreed upon a belief. By compiling a book of sacred writings, Constantine thought that the book would give authority to the new church.
One more thing, if there is no contradictions in the bible than how come there is sooo many sects of christian beliefs?
if the church is corrupted today, why can't it be corrupted in the past with leaders who were only to obssed with power?
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One more interesting fact about the reincarnation problem goes back to Origen of Alexandria considered one of the greatest christian theoligians. His beleifs are based on the platonic idea of goodness. (
http://www.iep.utm.edu/o/origen.htm)
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evidence of reincarnation in the bible:
1-For all the prophets and the law have prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who was to come. (Matt. 11:13-14)
And the disciples asked him, saying, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
But he answered them and said, "Elijah indeed is to come and will restore all things. But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also shall the Son of Man suffer at their hand."
Then the disciples understood that he had spoken of John the Baptist." (Matt. 17:10-13)
2-And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"
Jesus answered, "Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'" (John 9:1-3)
The disciples asked Jesus if the man committed a sin that caused him to be born blind. Given the fact that the man was blind since birth, this is an unusual question to ask unless pre-existence and reincarnation were a fact. How can a man sin before he is even born? The only conceivable answer to this question is a sin that was committed in a past life.
there are many more and many sites that talks about this. Whenever we read the bible, we read it like we are "suppose" to read it, instead of using our own reasoning and deciphering the teachings of jesus..
anyways, i hope i didnt make any enemies, for everyone is entitled to their own beliefs right? righhhhhht...
until next time...
"I know im deathless. No doubt i have dies myself a ten thousand of times before. I laugh at what you call disolution, and i know the amplitude of time"
-Walt Whitman
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