Category Archives: Reincarnation
Reincarnation in Gospel of the Nazirenes
The Gospel of the Nazirenes has many verses that are very clear about Reincarnation. The reason you don’t read many of them in the New Testament gospels is because the men who wrote those four books or possibly the ‘correctors’, … Continue reading
Why Reincarnation was Removed from Christianity
Is Reincarnation Really Incompatible with the Bible? Apologists of the Christian Bible use one verse in the Bible to “prove” that reincarnation is incompatible with the Bible. Hebrews 9:27, which says: “And as it is appointed unto men once to … Continue reading
Manipulation Through Fear
Why Does Fear Exist? Fear is a natural emotion designed to act as a means for protection in this physical world, from dangers and ultimately death. Man is the only creature that has an awareness of his own death and … Continue reading
Incompatible Reincarnation
People who have had an NDE experience, say their lives are completely changed. I have never seen a testimony of any experiencer that did not believe in Reincarnation — whether or not they believed in it before, no matter what religion they were before or whether or not they even believed in God. For them, Reincarnation is not something they must believe “by faith”, but a reality that they have seen, experienced and remember. More importantly, many near death experiencers have been shown short views of past lives. Continue reading
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The Soul Pre-existed with God Before Birth
The soul comes from God and the body comes from the Earth — the two are separate entities. When the physical body is no longer able to able to support life the soul returns to God and the body returns to the Earth from whence it came.
A certain pre-existent soul inhabits the fetus at a certain unknown point in gestation. It is impossible to know at exactly what point, scientifically, the soul enters the fetus. In Aristotle’s day it was believed that the human soul entered the fetus after conception at 40 days for males and 90 days for females. Some mystics believe that life enters the fetus at 40 to 45 days and if life enters after 48 days from conception, the being that will be born is considered to be phenomenal. However, it is only speculation, scientifically speaking, and there is no way to know when life actually enters the body beyond guess-work.
p>Contrary to religious opinion, the soul is not created together beginning at the time of conception. The decision for a soul that is to inhabit a certain body is made outside the mother’s womb. There is a definite reason for a soul to be reborn: for the purpose of progress of the soul in the greater scheme of things.
Reincarnation: Once to Die?
Christians that disapprove of the idea of reincarnation use Heb 9:27, because it says: “…once to die, but after this the judgement” — since man only dies once. But actually this verse is actually not even referring to reincarnation. If you read it in context you will find that what it is really addressing was whether Christ had to die over and over for the sins of the world.
According to the law, the Jews believed (erroneously) that the shedding of blood was necessary for God to forgive sins. They were constantly having to bring animals to be sacrificed to the priest for the forgiveness of sins every time someone needed to be cleansed of sin and forgiven. The point is that is Jesus came to do away with these sacrifices by dying, and once was all that was necessary.
It would take billions of sacrifices to forgive all of mankind’s sins Each person had to bring sacrifices many times because of many sins. Imagine that multiplied by all the millions of people that had ever lived and all those millions who would come in the future.
The point that is being brought out here is that Jesus didn’t need to be sacrificed over and over and over, billions of times in order for all mankind’s sins to be forgiven throughout all time — “Once to die”. Just as man dies once during his lifetime, so Christ died only once was sufficient for all of mankind’s sins (according to the writer).
Jesus Taught Reincarnation
Jesus was not the only one who taught and believed in reincarnation. He himself was a Jew and many of the Jews of his day also believed in reincarnation, including the Pharisees and the Essenes according to Josephus the historian. But obviously what really established reincarnation in the minds of the Jewish Christians was the teachings of Jesus. John chapter 3 is one of the only teachings of Jesus from the bible about reincarnation that was not completely carved out by the correctors hired by the church fathers because it didn’t fit into their doctrines.
Lots of the original parts of the teachings of about Reincarnation have been removed as you will see below. However, most Christians see this biblical passage as a teaching about salvation, especially since only the acceptable phrases are there. Their theologians, scholars and pastors have convinced them that “born-again” means salvation — saved from going to ‘Hell’. The truth is though, we are born again and again and again…
Reincarnation in Early Christianity
Despite the orthodox church’s efforts to stamp out the doctrine, it continued to exist. Probably the main reasons for its longevity is not due to only the writings of Jesus and others, but the simple fact that this doctrine gives a logical explanation to many of the mysteries of life that can be solved no other way. Most importantly, it helps to give answers to some of the most basic questions in life such as: “Why am I here?”; “What happens after I die?”; “Who am I really”; “What am I supposed to do?”; etc.
The idea was that the church could use the fear of Hell to create a dependence of the people on the Church for salvation and the guidance of the Empire. The emperor fell for the reasoning of the churchmen and realized that Origen’s teachings presented a danger to his control over the people. Therefore, the emperor had the doctrine of reincarnation and pre-existence with God condemned. In 543, Origen was condemned as a heretic and all of his writings were burned. Continue reading
Reincarnation in the Scriptures
God proclaimed the reincarnation of Elijah. God Himself said that he would send Elijah just before the coming of the Messiah. If you read it just plain and simple the way it’s written, that’s what you get — Reincarnation. There’s not even any interpretation needed here.
The prophet literally prophesied that God would send Elijah before the Messiah. If John was not Elijah, why is nothing at all mentioned about Elijah in the New Testament? It wouldn’t have been a secret because it was to be a public announcement. John the Baptist made that announcement.
The prophet and Jesus said God would send Elijah before the coming of Jesus — whether you interpret that to mean Jesus’ first coming or Jesus’ second coming. If you interpret it as Elijah coming at Jesus’ “second coming”, then it would be Elijah’s second time being sent too. Continue reading
What is Salvation All About?
A kind of Salvation different than what they expected
Jesus used the expression “everlasting life” more than he used “salvation” since it more accurately portrayed the reality of what he taught. The Jews lived in a time when they were under the oppression of the Romans and they were expecting a long awaited messiah that their scriptures prophesied would come who would deliver them out the the hands of their enemies.
However, though Jesus appeared to be that king and messiah that they were awaiting for God to send them, he didn’t come to bring them quite the type of “deliverance” that they had expected. He wasn’t exactly the kind of king most expected him to be. Unless of course, Jesus actually started a flame that ignited a war that was not recorded in the New Testament, like a lot of original passages that are missing from the Bible. There was the Jewish-Roman War (66-73 CE) that destroyed Jerusalem. But I digress…
Jesus came to bring them the message of salvation rather than deliverance from their enemies. He came to teach them the way to obtain “everlasting life”. This is the kind of salvation that would be “lasting unto the age of the ages” as the expression is literally translated.
But the enemy Jesus came to deliver them from was not Rome, as we see from the history that was left to us. Jesus said that his kingdom wasn’t from this world. The real enemy Jesus came to deliver them from was the god of this world and their own sinful selves — and I might add the bondage to a law that was not written by God, but traditions of men.