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Where does the Bible speak of reincarnation as a finite well of souls that is refilled and reborn? ?
Melissa - you are very presumptuous. The devil lost his hold on me before he ever got it. I have been a Christian since age 9.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Reincarnation is NOT a biblical doctrine. Kabbala teaches that it is, but the verses they use to back it are divorced from their proper context.
Job 14:5 says mans days are determined as bounds he cannot pass. If there were reincarnations, that would be a passing of those bounds, thus violating Scripture.
Kabbala teaches that reincarnation occurs through soul transference via Yibbum (a widow being taken as her deceased husband's brother's wife so as to bear children by him). They teach that her first male child by her brother-in-law must be named after the deceased husband so that his soul can pass into that baby. Deuteronomy 25:5-10 provides a provision for the widow to pass on marrying her brother-in-law by performing chalitzah, however... so in that case, what becomes of the deceased husband's soul? Also, Leviticus 18:16 forbids yibbum if there are already children from the original marriage.
Also, 2 Samuel 12:2, 23 and 14:14 all oppose the concept of reincarnation.
Source(s): Conservative Jew http://www.scribd.com/doc/3858402/Kabbalah-Secrets... (this is good!) - 1 decade ago
It doesn't because its not there. However it does say one must be born again in order to enter heaven. That is in no way reincarnation. I believe it means to start a new life, giving your life over to God. Becoming a new person. A fresh start. I'm born again, all my sins are washed away, I never have to pay for all the bad I've done. God has forgiven me. Giving me a new life. Born again. Not reborn not reincarnated, not reinvented. Born again, forgiven, given a new start in Jesus. Its great!! You should try it, if you don't like it the devil will always take you back.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It doesn't.
The bible says that man dies once, then comes judgment..The bible says that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So we are all guilty before a righteous Judge, and deserve punishment. Jesus took our punishment upon Himself, and rose again on the third day validating everything that He said..The bible says we must repent (turn from our sins)..we must trust in Jesus..we were created to know and glorify God, but our sins seperated us from Him..the bible says that it's not that God's hand is to short that He can't reach, its sin that has caused a seperation..
We must recieve Christ into our lives as Lord and Savior..
He loves you.
God is the only One we should pray to..nothing or no one else..
May God bless you!
- AdoreHimLv 71 decade ago
Nowhere in scripture does it say that reincarnation is true. As a matter of fact, just the opposite is true. "It is appointed once for a man to die, and then after that the judgment".
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- calmsereneLv 41 decade ago
i dont think the bible speaks of reincarnation anywhere.
to chris, if hitlerhad been a believer in christ, would he have gone to heaven despite the enormity of his misdeeds?
- 1 decade ago
Well it talks about how at the end those that allowed Jesus to pay for their sins would be resurrected after the defeat of Satan. People will just be spirits until then, after the Apocalypse will be "recarnated" into uncorrupted bodies that can't die.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Nowhere, though I'm sure you could find a passage and interpret it that way. (You can get the Bible to support pretty much anything, if you look hard enough.)
But then, how would you explain the expanding population, if we're all supposed to be "reborn" from previous souls?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It doesn't. Not anywhere in the Bible. Reincarnation is antithetical to the Bible.