NAVIGATION
EXERPTS
SEARCH
KEY WORDS
- animal sacrifice
- Belief
- biological
- born-again
- Christian
- Christianity
- contradiction
- contradictions
- corrupted
- deceive
- deceived
- Egypt
- Elijah
- father
- fear
- forgery
- God
- good works
- Gospel of the Hebrews
- hell
- inconsistencies
- inerrant
- interpretation
- Jesus
- John the Baptist
- king
- kingdom of Heaven
- king of the Jews
- lie
- lies
- Messiah
- Paul
- punishment
- Purification
- reincarnation
- religion
- righteous
- righteousness
- salvation
- Second Coming
- This generation
- Trinity
- truth
- virgin
- works
-
RECENT POSTS
- The Most Important Verse
- Why Reincarnation was Removed from Christianity
- Kingdom of God Within You
- The Bigger the Lie…
- The Kingdom of God: Grace vs Works Part 2
- The Kingdom of God: Grace vs Works Part 1
- The Kingdom of God Not Exclusive
- The Kingdom of God Part 4
- The Kingdom of God Part 3
- The Kingdom of God Part 2
Tag Archives: reincarnation
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).
Posted in Reincarnation
Tagged animal sacrifices, Obey my voice, once for all, once to die, one sacrifice, pre-existed, reincarnation, sacrifices, shedding of blood, take away sins
Comments Off on Reincarnation: Once to Die?
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…
Posted in Reincarnation
Tagged born-again, fear, Jewish community, lived before, no second chance, overcome, perfection through suffering, Purification, reincarnation, salvation, weeds
Comments Off on Jesus Taught Reincarnation
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
Posted in Reincarnation
Tagged baptizing, Christian theology, control, Elijah, emperor, emperor Justinian, fear of death, heresy, immortal, John the Baptist, Kabbalah, Origen, Pharisees, Pope Vigilius, power, pre-existence, reincarnation
Comments Off on Reincarnation in Early Christianity
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
Posted in Reincarnation
Tagged Elijah, Elijah died, John the Baptist, Karma, Messiah, prophets, recollection, reincarnation, scribes and Pharisees, whirlwind
Comments Off on Reincarnation in the Scriptures
If Jesus is Only a Man, Then…
If Jesus is only a man, and not God as most Christians believe, then that changes everything we have ever thought about existence. If Jesus was not God and was only a man like you or me, then everything that applied to Jesus applies to us also:
- Jesus existed before this life.
- He was a spirit incarnated into human flesh.
- He was a creation of God and knew God and learned from God.
- All things that Jesus could do are possible for us also, since we also are “sons of God”.
Christians believe there is an actual place called Hell and that’s where only unbelievers go — for eternity! However, Believers also may go to the same place as unbelievers, according to Jesus. The following verse is an example of just that:
The lord of that servant (a believer) will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. (Lk 12:46)
The difference between us and Jesus, according to the Bible, is that he was the first born of God; he was just the first (not the only) to be begotten of God. The word “begotten” couldn’t possibly mean God had an intimate relation with his wife and Jesus was conceived — that is an absurd idea. But what it does mean is that he was only the first to be born of God in a metaphorical sense. That means we are begotten of God ALSO.
Posted in Reincarnation
Tagged all-powerful, authority, existence, first born of God, God may be all and in all, God was greater, going back to the Father, greater than I, I leave the world again, incarnated, my God, power, pre-existence, reincarnation, sons of God, Trinity
Comments Off on If Jesus is Only a Man, Then…
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.
Posted in Reincarnation
Tagged believe, born-again, corrupted, Deliverer, enemies, everlasting life, false doctrine, kingdom of Heaven, Messiah, misconception, perfection, Purification, reincarnation, salvation, saved, suffering, truth
Comments Off on What is Salvation All About?
Which is the Real Truth?
I have heard people comment that Christianity today is so completely different than what Jesus taught in his day — and that is using a comparison from their own bibles. More and more people are becoming disillusioned with Christianity today and are either just not going to church or are looking for some alternative. Continue reading
Posted in Ebionites
Tagged Christianity, end sacrifices, gospel of the Nazirenes, James, kindness to animals, Mary Magdalene, Nazirite, original gospels, reincarnation
Comments Off on Which is the Real Truth?