Belief in reincarnation tied to memory errors

Someone wrote...

"Also, has anyone ever considered that Christianity is all about a story of reincarnation?

What do you think the "Second Coming" truly means?"

I have often thought one of the major "lessons of Christianity has been overlooked in the resurrection of Jesus. Seems like a BIG part of the message is the one of re-birth or re-life, and yet the obvious is never mentioned.

A honest evaluation of the biography of Jesus derived from the New Testament can only but conclude that reincarnation was an accepted feature of earthly existence amongst Jesus and His followers. What's more, Jesus' references to His own second coming were in the context of the understood meaning of reincarnation, i.e., that Jesus would be put to death but His Spirit would survive and return again at the End of the Age....which all signs indicate is now at hand.


The tomb was empty. It was Jesus who arose from the dead and ascended into heaven and it will be Jesus who returns. Not his spirit.

Okay, my next issue would be this passage.

And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

Jesus answered, "Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents, but the works of God were to be made manifest in him.'" (John 9:1-3)

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Now, how can someone sin before they are born? The disciples weren't ignorant men. So by asking if he has sinned before he was born, does that mean they were asking if he sinned as a soul? Or sinned in a previous life?

This particular argument now comes down to,
Can a soul die?
If not, and if the punishment for sin is death, how do you punish a soul?
Or can a soul not sin? And if not, how could this blind man have sinned unless he was reincarnated?

Jesus doesn't say that he sinned, but the question was asked "And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who has sinned, this man..." They're asking if he sinned before he was born? So, are they asking if he sinned as a soul? or as a previous incarnation of that soul?

bookworm---You beat me to it. No reincarnation, thank God.

fairbanksb said:

The tomb was empty. It was Jesus who arose from the dead and ascended into heaven and it will be Jesus who returns. Not his spirit.

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So Jesus will return as a soulless zombie?

I think not.

Happy Easter!

Hold on folks!

REAL knowledge can only come from...


EXPERIENCE.


And...

Since none of us are dead yet...

How in the hell can we possibly KNOW what happens to our SELF after our bodies start stinkin' to high heaven?

Do "I" die when "My" physical body dies?


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Anyone on This side of death who tries to tell you what happens on the That side of death does not understand Knowledge.

Anyone on This side of death who tries to tell you what happens on That side of death still believes that Belief is Knowledge.

Anyone on This side of death who tries to tell you what happens on That side of death is trying to rob you of the Wonder and Awe of Life and Death.

And...

If he succeeds in his endeavor, he has done nothing but disguise your real, Divine Ignorance with apparent knowledge.

God save me from apparent knowledge.






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