You believe in reincarnation Christians?
Matt 17:11 He answered, “Elijah does indeed come first and will restore all things. And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
Later they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No
Jesus referred to John was Elijah but John said that he was not Elijah.
People in a regressive hypnosis remember their past lives. Now, if you ask them before hipnosis who they were in past lives , they do not know because his past is in the subconscious.
I do not know.
What you think about it?
Reincarnation works this way: John *was* Elijah; John *is not* Elijah – he *is* now John.
The subconscious mind has access to details about your past lives, but the conscious mind usually blocks these memories from being recalled. Good reasons for this, such as, we couldn’t function in the present life if we identify too strongly with a past self. The subconscious connection to the higher, eternal self (or "soul") can be tapped by methods such as meditation, self-hypnosis and dreams.
The purpose of reincarnation is to experience free will (not just our own but also the free will of others with whom we have contact) and to experience the consequences of that free will. Not everything "bad" that happens to us is karma, but what *is* karma will always teach us something and is always constructive. We’re here to learn, and to a large extent we design our own lives, the challenges we want to meet, the obstacles we want to overcome. The idea of a punishing spiteful deity is nonsense.
Just as the early Christian church changed OT verses to fit their doctrines (for example, substituting "hell" for the word meaning "grave" — Jews don’t believe in hell), bible references to reincarnation were retranslated and altered, and some removed altogether. The Pagan Roman emperor Constantine is largely responsible for revamping this small Jewish sect into the powerful, political, war-mongering authority which would become known as the "Christian" church.
From the beginning Judaism has traditionally accepted reincarnation as fact: "Behold, all these things does God do — twice, even three times with a man — to bring his soul back from the pit that he may be enlightened with the light of the living." (Job 33:29) In other words, God would allow a person to come back to the world "of the living" from "the pit" (which is Gehenna — there is no "Hell" in Judaism) a second, third or a multitude of times.
Proverbs 8:22-31 is *not* King Solomon channeling Jesus as Christians absurdly claim; it is Solomon’s celebration of eternal life through reincarnation.
And Psalms 90:3-6 speaks of reincarnation: Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!" For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Numerous NT biblical reference for reincarnation. Besides the most obvious (Truly, literally, you must be born again… no one goes up to heaven but he who came down from heaven … how could that be any clearer?), there is "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" which is dismissed by the unaware who don’t know that Jesus historically taught reincarnation and that reincarnation was simply assumed to be true by his followers.
According to the bible Jesus answered that the man was born blind so that Jesus could heal him. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this could not be applied to every person who is born without sight — it applied, according to the bible, to the one blind man whose path crossed Jesus.
The nonsense about "it is appointed that man dies once and then face judgment" that the unaware trot out at every question about reincarnation is just that: nonsense. No sense as an argument against reincarnation. What exactly do the critics think survives death to "face judgment"? The soul of course: the spiritual energy of the person who died. And it is the soul that reincarnates, not "the man." The "judgment" faced by the "soul" is Gehenna, the spiritual stopover place (according to Jesus’ Judaism) where we contemplate our past life and make plans for the next. Reincarnationists know that it is the spiritual energy of man that returns, inhabiting a new "man" (new body). Jews knew that; Jesus knew that.
Historically, *factually*, Jesus was a Reincarnationist, as were his original Christians. Matthew 5:48′s "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" – with his statement "Ye are gods" – conveys his message that perfection and godliness are within the potential of every living being – but clearly not in one lifetime.
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no, reincarnation is not a Christian teaching. We believe that our journey here on earth is a mere pilgrimage to heaven, and that we will be judged according to the way we lived.
Sadly though, some protestant churches are starting to believe in reincarnation, example: The Unity Church.
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Reincarnation is a lie and why are you foolish enough to believe in bald headed aliens?
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No. It is appointed for man once to die, says scripture, and then the judgment.
No reincarnation. People will be raised either to eternal life (heaven; believers in Christ) or eternal destruction (hell, separation from God).
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You’d still have a problem since according to the Bible Elijah never died. How would hypnosis help John remember that he as a man that never died? Don’t you have to die first to be reincarnated?
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He was referring to Elias in the old testament there are no such thing as reincarnation christians
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Alien, what does this tell you about past lives regression: "They do not know because is past is in the subconscious"? Could the information come from the soul and or possibly the spirit within us? Could it be that we have the soul in us until we die then it goes into somebodies body at birth and that is how these past lives experiences are in our subconscious mind? As to your question do you believe in reincarnation ? My answer is Yes. because l went through a past life regression and it was one of the most exciting experiences l ever experienced. This is not a Christian thng any body can expereince it.
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I’m "Christain" And I Believe In Reincarnation.
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Reincarnation was accepted by many early Christians. When Emperor Constantine convened the council of bishops at Nicea he wanted them to unify the doctrine. His wife Theodora insisted that any mention of reincarnation be removed because she didn’t want anyone thinking she had ever been a peasant or slave in a previous life.
The Bible reveals more about the personal and political agendas of it’s priestly authors than it does about the the so called Truth.
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Elijah in the Bible represents a certain spiritual power so when Yeshua/Jesus said "And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him" He does not mean that Elijah was literally reincarnated into John, rather that John the Bapist was operating in the mantle and spirit and power of Elijah and with that power, he was able to come and restore and prepare the way for when Yeshua/Jesus would come(His first coming that is).
Similarly, in the end times believers in Yeshua/Jesus will also operate in the mantle and spirit of Elijah to restore all things before his second coming.
In conclusion, The Bible is not advocating reincarnation but that certain people/groups operate in the spirit and power of Elijah as to restore things before the first and second coming of Yeshua/Jesus.
For more info on the topic, check out this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgzh4JPZGuM
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Reincarnation works this way: John *was* Elijah; John *is not* Elijah – he *is* now John.
The subconscious mind has access to details about your past lives, but the conscious mind usually blocks these memories from being recalled. Good reasons for this, such as, we couldn’t function in the present life if we identify too strongly with a past self. The subconscious connection to the higher, eternal self (or "soul") can be tapped by methods such as meditation, self-hypnosis and dreams.
The purpose of reincarnation is to experience free will (not just our own but also the free will of others with whom we have contact) and to experience the consequences of that free will. Not everything "bad" that happens to us is karma, but what *is* karma will always teach us something and is always constructive. We’re here to learn, and to a large extent we design our own lives, the challenges we want to meet, the obstacles we want to overcome. The idea of a punishing spiteful deity is nonsense.
Just as the early Christian church changed OT verses to fit their doctrines (for example, substituting "hell" for the word meaning "grave" — Jews don’t believe in hell), bible references to reincarnation were retranslated and altered, and some removed altogether. The Pagan Roman emperor Constantine is largely responsible for revamping this small Jewish sect into the powerful, political, war-mongering authority which would become known as the "Christian" church.
From the beginning Judaism has traditionally accepted reincarnation as fact: "Behold, all these things does God do — twice, even three times with a man — to bring his soul back from the pit that he may be enlightened with the light of the living." (Job 33:29) In other words, God would allow a person to come back to the world "of the living" from "the pit" (which is Gehenna — there is no "Hell" in Judaism) a second, third or a multitude of times.
Proverbs 8:22-31 is *not* King Solomon channeling Jesus as Christians absurdly claim; it is Solomon’s celebration of eternal life through reincarnation.
And Psalms 90:3-6 speaks of reincarnation: Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!" For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Numerous NT biblical reference for reincarnation. Besides the most obvious (Truly, literally, you must be born again… no one goes up to heaven but he who came down from heaven … how could that be any clearer?), there is "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" which is dismissed by the unaware who don’t know that Jesus historically taught reincarnation and that reincarnation was simply assumed to be true by his followers.
According to the bible Jesus answered that the man was born blind so that Jesus could heal him. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this could not be applied to every person who is born without sight — it applied, according to the bible, to the one blind man whose path crossed Jesus.
The nonsense about "it is appointed that man dies once and then face judgment" that the unaware trot out at every question about reincarnation is just that: nonsense. No sense as an argument against reincarnation. What exactly do the critics think survives death to "face judgment"? The soul of course: the spiritual energy of the person who died. And it is the soul that reincarnates, not "the man." The "judgment" faced by the "soul" is Gehenna, the spiritual stopover place (according to Jesus’ Judaism) where we contemplate our past life and make plans for the next. Reincarnationists know that it is the spiritual energy of man that returns, inhabiting a new "man" (new body). Jews knew that; Jesus knew that.
Historically, *factually*, Jesus was a Reincarnationist, as were his original Christians. Matthew 5:48′s "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" – with his statement "Ye are gods" – conveys his message that perfection and godliness are within the potential of every living being – but clearly not in one lifetime.
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"At the time of writing there are three claims in the ESP field which, in my opinion, deserve serious study: … (3) that young children sometimes report the details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any way other than reincarnation. I pick these claims … as examples of contentions that might be true." -p300, "Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Dr. Carl Sagan