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 Reincarnation
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Reincarnation- First Part
Reincarnation
Today, against the Bible and Koran
Reincarnation and the
Bible... a lie of the devil
The essence of Christianity
Caste System: One Fruit of Reincarnation
Reincarnation is a False
"Theory"
Reincarnation Today:
Reincarnation is the basic system
for the 779 million Hindus, for the 324 million Buddhists, the 6 million Jains... for a
variety of dects and cults reincarnation is an essential aspect of their teachings: Hare
Krishna, Theosophy, New Age, Unity School of Christianity, Rosicrucianism,
Urantia, Gnosis, Spiritualism... Almost all the Eastern cults and practices of
Yoga and Transcendental Meditations base their quest for higher consciousness on
the premises of reincarnation...Reincarnation
in Eastern Religions
Reincarnation is the
belief that when one dies, one's body decomposes, but one is reborn in another
body. It is the belief that one has lived before and will live again in another
body after death. The bodies one passes in and out need not be human. One
may have been a Doberman in a past life, and one may be a mite or a carrot in a
future life. Some tribes avoid eating certain animals because they believe that
the souls of their ancestors dwell in those animals.
On the other hand, reincarnation is a way of rejecting the
Christian teaching of the final judgment by a holy God, with the possible
result of being condemned to suffer in eternal hell,, as accepted by some
gnostics, atheists and materialists...
Reincarnation is not a thrill for a Hindu, nor even
a good happening to expect, it is the worse imaginable "curse"!... the
greatest fear for a Hindu is not to die, but to reincarnate... all the ascetic
sacrifices, all the hard yoga and puja practices, is to avoid
reincarnation... to live nude or without food of a Jainist is to avoid
the next reincarnation... the great sacrifices of a Buddhist in a monastery
for life, is to obtain enlightenment, thus avoiding reincarnation...
For some westerns, it may be an opportunity God
gives to amend previous errors. But one life-time should be more than enough
enough for it... among other things, because God is for us, The God of the Bible
wants everybody to go to eternal Heaven:
3This is
good, and pleases God our Savior, 4who
wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
(1Tim.2:3-4).
But
even in this view, reincarnation does not make sense physically nor spiritually,
because the soul incarnates in a different body, with a different brain;
therefore, a different person is involved, and that person has not technically
experienced reincarnation.
And if he soul reincarnates in a Doberman, she can became a
great dog, but physically and spiritually totally incompatible with the human
person before the reincarnation.
Scientology proposes to remove the traumas of past
lives by the use of a device called E-meter... now many psychiatrists practice
"past-lives therapy", and have their calendars full of appointments... and some
statistics show 60% of Americans consider reincarnation a reasonable
probability... the classic inquiry "Who am I?" is being replaced by the puzzling
question "Who was I?". reincarnation
is a central tenet of such theories
as dianetics and
channeling.
The concept of reincarnation is very popular. There is an increasing
interest in this topic today, sustained especially by books and magazines, TV
broadcasts, movies and conferences., in the internet...
However, Reincarnation is totally opposed to the
teachings of the Bible and of the Koran. You can not believe in
Reincarnation and proclaim that you are a Jew, a Christian, or a Muslim...
Reincarnation is a grave heresy against these three religions, against the
revelations of God in the Bible and Koran.
Ancient Egyptians, left in the Pyramids both the people and some of their
possessions which may testify to beliefs that a person would have need for their
treasured possessions once again despite physical death.
During the classical period of German literature
metempsychosis attracted much attention:
Goethe played with the idea, and it was taken up more
seriously by
Lessing, who borrowed it from
Charles Bonnet, and by
Herder. It has been mentioned with respect by
Hume and by
Schopenhauer.
Reincarnation also appears in
Norse mythology,
The
American Edgar Cayce
claimed to be in touch with many of his past lives,
and today's foremost secular "expert" is the
Canadian psychiatrist
Dr.
Ian Stevenson who claims
to have documented 1,800 actual cases of reincarnation, but most
of them can be understood without reincarnation, just by the use
of hypnosis or mediums of the Occult or demonic possession, or
simply by several kinds of
hallucination -
Past-life
recall as proof for Reincarnation
Reincarnation came to Europe during the Middle Ages with the Hermetism
and Catharism who had taken it over from Neo-Platonism. It was promoted in the
Western world only in beginning with the last century, by the efforts of
Theosophy, and later Anthroposophy. Their intense ministry, combined with that
of many Eastern gurus, and especially the efforts of the New Age movement,
determined a wide acceptance of reincarnation in our society today, so that this
concept became one of the most fascinating doctrines in explaining the origin
and meaning of life... though all of reincarnation is a lie of the Devil as we
shall see, and totally opposed to the doctrines of the Bible and Koran.
However, its modern version is substantially different from what Eastern
religions stated. Far from being a torment out of which man has to escape by any
price through abolishing personhood, New Age thinking considers reincarnation as
an eternal progression of the soul toward higher levels of spiritual
existence... Although this tendency proves the soul’s yearning for a personal
destiny, it doesn’t bear too much resemblance to classical Hindu spirituality,
which rejects it as totally perverted... and it is totally opposed to Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam.
Both
are mutually exclusive. If you believe in reincarnation, you are not believing
in the Bible; if you believe the Bible, reincarnation is a contradiction to the
Bible, because it offers no loving God, no forgiving grace, and robs the
Almighty of his attribute of mercy. The sacrifice of Christ on the Cross and the
shedding of his blood cannot be compatible with a system of belief that denies
his atonement.
The Bible teaches over and over that you and I will go to Heaven or Hell
after our only life on earth, without any reincarnation, "as it is appointed
unto men once to die, and after this the judgment" (Heb.9:27)...
There is only one heart
and one soul for each person, living only once on earth, and eternally after
death on earth, either in heaven or in hell..
Reincarnation means
a soul can live on earth with as many as 20,000 physical hearts or even more.,
some claim... it destroys the
concept of a "personal" Heaven or "Hell" of the Bible, and, what is worse, it
maintains the final salvation or Moksha of a person in the Hindu understanding,
because after death there will be no "person" but an annihilation of each person
becoming like a drop of water in the ocean.
All present official
Christian denominations reject reincarnation:, as far as I know.
Those who advocate
reincarnation are against the most elemental teachings of the Bible; they do not
believe the Bible!...
However, they quote the Bible to claim that Jesus was the
reincarnation of Abraham based on Jn.8:58,
which is ridiculous; and they quote Matt.11:4
to say that John the Baptist was a reincarnation of Elijah, ignoring the answer
given by the Baptist himself to those who raised this possibility: "I
am not", he emphatically declared in Jn.1:21.
They also quote the Bible, Matt.14:2,
claiming that Jesus was a reincarnation of John the Baptist, which is
impossible, because Jesus was a grown adult when John was beheaded.
In Acts 16, "a slave-girl had a spirit of divination and brought her owners
a great deal of money by fortune-telling... Paul cast out the devil from her in
the name of Jesus, and he went out the same hour".
"The devil is a liar and the father of lies"
(Jn.8), he is a murderer, who comes to steal to kill and to destroy, and he does
it using Spiritism, divination, witchcraft... and he is deceiving 1.5 billion
people with the trick of reincarnation... because "Satan disguises himself as an
angel of light", and uses persons to do wonders and divinations to deceive
people (Jn.10:10, 1Cor.11)... and the Bible teaches to avoid any doctrine which
comes of demonic inspiration (1Tim.4:1).
Reincarnation
is lie of the Devil, a false theory to enslave
about 1,500 million people today on earth, and one of the main reasons to
perpetuate the infamous Caste System in India.
In the 1,800 cases of reincarnation of Dr. Stevenson,
most of them can be understood without reincarnation, but by influence of the
devil with demonic possession or by mediums of the Occult.
The essence
of Christianity:
It is not "to know" about Christ but "to be" another
Christ, with Christ in the Christian and the Christian in Christ, in his
Mystical Body, in his church... and Christ is God, the Absolute, the real
Brahman who became a real human person, not just a hero of an imaginary
novel.
The Work of Jesus on
earth:
1- The Cross: Jesus on the Cross redeemed us, He
paid for all our sins for all our bad karma, we just have to appropriate
this free payment by believing in Jesus Christ and doing what He asks,
mainly to be baptized in His church.
2- The Resurrection: But the Cross was not the
end... After His Resurrection Jesus Himself wants to live in us,
here, on earth. We were saved from sin to live on earth with the love and
joy and peace of Jesus in us, I no longer live, but Christ lives in me
(Gal.2:20). A love and joy and peace that nothing and nobody can take away
(Rom.8:37-39).
Give thanks with joy to God always and in any circumstance as proclaimed
in Eph.5:20 and emphasized in the Preface of every Holy Mass, Indeed it
is "just" and "necessary", our "duty" and our "salvation" to give thanks to
God always and in all circumstances. There are no more words in the
dictionary to emphasize it!
The life of a Christian on earth is a
A Wedding Feast!
, as proclaimed
in at least 20 quotations in the Bible. In this Wedding Feast each one of us
is invited, and not just as any guest, but as the "Bride of the Lamb". This
is the message of the Cana wedding feast in John 2, the first miracle of
Jesus.
With problems like in Cana, but always with the joy and love and
excitement of a bride in her wedding feast. In success or failure, good or
bad health, always with the joy and love and peace of Jesus in me that
nobody and nothing can take away.
3- The Ascension: Still more: The work of Jesus on earth did not
end with the Cross nor with the Resurrection, but with His Ascension to
Heaven: He wants us to go to eternal Heaven, like Him!... Christianity
is the religion of joy on earth, but still more, in Heaven for one eternity,
without the need for any reincarnation, because Jesus paid for absolutely
all or sins, all our bad karma.
Suffering?
Yes, many problems and sufferings, but with the joy and excitement
of a "mother in labor" Jesus tells us in Jn.16:21. Because
Each suffering is to bring up a new life, either in us or in others:
1- In us... because each suffering is like an injection of God to
purify us, as proclaimed in Hebrews 12.
2- In others... like the sufferings of redemption of Christ or Mary,
of Peter or Paul... Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and
in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in
filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions. (Colos.1:24)...
yes, with my cross I am a co-redeemer with Christ, it is my best
evangelization, to help others to go to Heaven. An old sick woman is not a
burden, but the best treasure of home.
"Suffering" is a great revolution of Jesus in the two mountains:
1- In the Mount of the Beatitudes, proclaiming the "poor happy", the
"hunger happy", those who "mourn happy", the "persecuted happy"...
2- At Calvary it was not with words, but with deeds, with his flesh...
the greatest success of humankind!...
IT CAN BE DONE... CHRIST AND I, ABSOLUTE MAJORITY!, I can do
everything through him who gives me strength. (Phil.4:13).
The doctrine of
reincarnation is the main root of the infamous "caste system"; and the
Untouchable has no hope of bettering his lot, because his miserable destiny has
been predetermined by a former existence.
If reincarnation is so beneficial on a practical level, as
reincarnationists claim, then how do they explain the immense and ever-worsening
social and economic problems in India where reincarnation has been
systematically taught throughout its history?
To be a "good samaritan",
according to reincarnation, would only interfere with the divine order of karmic
punishment... one needs only glimpse at the lands where karmic and reincarnation
doctrines have sway for centuries to see the poverty and subhuman view of life
fostered by these teachings... next time a Transcendental Meditation or a Zen
teacher offers you to end all your problems, tell him to go to India, they need
him!...
The Logic: Even the mere
logic dismisses most of the claims of reincarnation: What good does it do to be
punished for something you can't remember having done?... if suffering is the
result of sin in other peoples' life, what recompense or purification is there
for the sacrificed mother or the pain of cancer?... and why lift a man from the
gutter to clean his sores and feed his belly, if some impersonal law of
retribution is perpetuating his hunger?...
Reincarnation seeks to provide the ultimate answer for understanding
suffering and injustice. The ancient philosophers used the theory of karmic
reincarnation to explain away such things as birth defects, physical handicaps,
low I.Q.'s, retardations, etc., because they had no knowledge of genetics and
DNA code.
They assumed that all birth defects had a mystical or religious explanation,
instead of being just a genetic problem, or the result of any kind of
intoxication or sickness of the parents...
Reincarnation is a False Theory:
99.99% of the world population does not remember anything about
a previous live... do you?
Reincarnation is not true because it contradicts the
Resurrection.
Reincarnation contradicts the historical Christian teaching and Bible concept
of the resurrection of the dead.
To quote the Bible, "it is appointed for men to die once, and after that
comes judgment" (Heb 9:27)
Past-life
recall as proof for Reincarnation
Most "Past-life experiences" can be explained as
hallucinations!"
There are different types of hallucinations. One is caused
by drugs or illness. The other is from an altered state of consciousness,
brought on by things such as:
- Hypnosis
- Yoga
- Eastern-religion types of meditation
- Biofeedback
- Certain kinds of electrical stimulation applied to the brain
- "Going into a trance" to act as a spirit medium
-
"Channeling" (a term used by UFO researchers. The
activity involved is the same as medium practices.)
-
"Remote viewing" (a term used by the U.S. military to
describe the same activity as channeling or medium practices.)
- Contacting "spirit guides"
- Typical activities of a medium at a seance
- "Visualization" techniques , using mediums or demonic
possession.
- Any kind of occult activity that invites spirits to make contact, such
as Ouija boards, Tarot cards, astrology, consulting a
"psychic."
The teaching of the resurrection of the dead is one life, one soul, one
body. There will not be multiple bodies for one soul which is what reincarnation
requires. The body is not something to be discarded and forgotten but will be
reunited with the soul at the final judgment.
3- Reincarnation is not true because it simply makes no sense.
It makes no sense because the reason we live further lives is to supposedly
improve upon and do restitution for what wrong we did in our prior lives. But
who remembers their prior lives? I have no conscious memory of any prior lives.
So how in the world am I supposed to improve upon what I did if I can't remember
what I did?
Now I realize some people claim to remember their prior lives through
various techniques, particularly hypnosis or through mediums of the Occult. But it has been documented that
hypnosis is notoriously unreliable. We have people claiming everything under
hypnosis -- from UFO abductions, to Satanic ritual abuse, to prior lives. Is all
of this stuff true?
A good recent book on hypnotherapy written from a skeptical psychologist
point of view is Robert Baker, They Call It Hypnosis (Prometheus Books, 1990).
4- Reincarnation is not true because it perpetuates the problem of
evil.
Contrary to what you said about karma and reincarnation being just, the
concepts are unjust because evil is perpetuated and there is no forgiveness.
That's why the Hindus refer to this life as "the wheel of reincarnation"
since there is no getting off. It is a hopeless cycle. And where is God in all
of this?
A question that must be asked -- where did evil originate according to the
laws of karma and reincarnation?
Lord Jesus, my savior and my only God,
open the eyes of India to realize that the theory of Reincarnation is a false
and pernicious doctrine, the root of the infamous Caste System, just lies of the
devil to enslave a third of the human race... and in the glorious name of Jesus
I order Satan to get out of the heart of any anyone who believes in
Reincarnation, who may read these lines. Lord Jesus, give him or her the light
and grace to renounce the false theory of Reincarnation, and accept in his or
her heart the only loving and caring God, our Lord Jesus Christ... I believe in
Jesus, he is the only God, who died in a Cross to pay for the infinite evil of
my bad karma, for my sins. Thank you Jesus. I trust you. Amen
From
http://hometown.aol.com/philvaz/articles/num33.htm
http://skepdic.com/reincarn.html
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recall as a modern False Proof of Reincarnation
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and False Cosmic Justice
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