do you believe in reincarnation?

It seems likely, based on the available evidence.

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There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:

1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?

2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?

3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?

There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.

Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

If you bother to do a little research, you will find that virtually all cultures and nations before the advent of Christianity KNEW (not just believed) about reincarnation. Arabs, Africans, Jews, Europeans, everyone all knew about reincarnation. Yes, there is evidence in the Christian bible that Jesus believed that John The Baptist was Elijah reincarnated. The one-lifetime doctrine was a creation of Christian Church (the church, not the original followers of Jesus. Big difference between the two).

There is a lot that only reincarnation can explain: child prodigy, deja vu, a child who knows about people or events or places that existed before he/she was born, etc, discussion of which should be reserved for another forum.

Reincarnation makes even more sense when you take it together with the concept of Karma. God uses these tools, not to punish us but to ensure that we properly understand how to be more like Him (just as we allow an erring child another opportunity to correct his/her mistakes). And to be more God-like is why we are here on earth in the first place.

I have not ever believed in reincarnation, not now nor in any of my previous lives.

While there have been a few cases that appear to be somewhat legitimate, there has not been strong enough evidence to prove it. Consider that there are probably more people alive today than in all of history, also consider the amount of times that famous or even semi well known people are reincarnated as opposed to ones that are just normal everyday people. I'd say there is almost no way that reincarnation exists.

Big question. The answer is both yes and no.

Yes because our actions, good or bad, create the conditions inherited by those who come after us and so they inherit what we leave them.

No because I do not believe that there is a self or soul that survives death.

You need to look at life as a continuous process rather than a once only affair to appreciate what I am saying. All very Buddhist and a bit strange to Christian thinking! Be well.

No i don't, and also i would like to add that people that do believe in reincarnation, and feel comforted from that belief puzzle me!

Because if you were to be reincarnated as another person and have no memory of the fact that you once were someone else, then that is as worrying as death is in my oppinion. Because without memory of who you once were, you are as good as dead i mean you no longer exist as you did before so you are no longer alive!

Yes. I have believed this since I was very little and my parents didn't tell me anything about - if anything they discouraged me when I was little in just thinking I had interesting dreams when I remembered and vocalized parts of my previous life. I know that I lived previously, as a human, and there were about five years between my current life and the previous one. Most of my immediate family don't believe me still, when I have talked to them adult to adult, but some of them have more open minds now. This is progress. . .

Yes I do because some young people seem like old souls and visa versa,plus of daja veu and how come people when hypnotised remember a past life clearly and places they describe exist exactly as they say when they have never been there in this life.and kids can do be so intelligent at an early age if they are not old souls who have learned over many life times

Reincarnation is a fact. For the most part people do not understand why we cannot remember our former lives or corporeal existences. The reason we forget is to continue our evolution. If we remembered, for example, in a past life, and our mother in our current one killed us, would we not hold it against her? If we are here in this life, with a mother who killed us in a past one, it is so that we can learn to forgive that person, as well, for that person to redeem themselves to us.

The answer to why there are so many more people in the world as there was in the past, is that there are an infinite number of spirits/souls in the universe. We reincarnate upon a planet that best serves our evolutionary level. We are here on planet Earth, to experience suffering, trials and expiations. There are worlds vastly more evolved that Earth, as well there are worlds vastly behind Earth's state of evolution. The majority of people incarnated to Earth are not yet even halfway to evolving to their purest form.

Earth is visited by more evolved spirits throughout time, as to further evolve the planet. As we've seen throughout history. Jesus, of course being the most evolved to have been recorded in our history. There is Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstien, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mikhail Gorbachev, Ghandi, Fransico Xavier, Dahli Lama, Pope John Paul II and a plethora of others, who have fueled the evolutional state of the planet. Some are evolved in the way of intellect, others in the way of moral aptitude, some in both.

The most common disregarding of reincarnation I have heard is that people do not want to live a life again, because it is a difficult task. But we have to ask ourselves, does the parent refuse to administer the medicine to a child, solely because the child does not want it? Is God, not going to make you reincarnate, because you've had enough? The answer to both these questions is obviously "no", we cannot stop reincarnating until we have learned all there is to develop into a pure spirit. It is what God wants us to do.

To pick up the subject a bit, as we reach the apex of our evolutionary development, and learn crucial moral attributes, such as tolerance, forgiveness, genuine love for one another, and goodwill; just as a roller coaster slowly reaches the top of the hill, we will evolve faster as we near our purest form, demanding less trials and suffering, and more of learning and knowledge.

We are closing in on reaching that apex. All the people of this planet, who are striving to do good, and learn tolerance for one another. Those who evolve will go to other planets, other places where there is no strife. Those who refuse to evolve, who stay in this unevolved state, will stay, and do it again, and again, until they learn and choose to evolve of their own volition.

Yes

No. We are who we are. This life is but a moment in time. We will continue to exist long after this life and even after this earth has passed away. We are given this life as a preparation for that which comes next. It's a one shot deal.