Throughout the ages debate
on reincarnation has taken its place as one of the most controversial spiritual
questions. I too once believed it was possible because of my past spiritual
impressions. I had a vision of a princess or Queen with a baby in her arms in
the courtyard of the Heidelberg castle in Germany when I was 8 years old. She
was standing there when a man on a horse came and picked her and the baby up.
He placed them on the horse and road off together.
There was a feeling that it
could have been me in a past life but no direct knowing it in fact was so. Throughout
my life and spiritual growth I grow greater in the understanding how such
impressions are sent to us, beginning in very young years. I’ve also learned to
question much because of the powers of darkness and how they intend to misguide
us or lead us off the road of righteousness.
Many religions on this
planet adopt reincarnation as truth but I have come to realizes it was our ancestors
inability to discern lesser spiritual impression on us verse GOD’s truth. Why
would we look to a man, a philosopher as having a higher truth than GOD
himself?
Upon research I found the
below text on this issue;
God/Nils/Reincarnation
and Christianity
Indian reincarnation. First a worldly life, then a
scientist, and then an enlightened yogi.
Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical belief that the soul or
spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be
human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous
life's actions.
Wikipedia: This doctrine is a central tenet of
the Indian religions and is a belief that was held by Pythagoras, Plato and
Socrates. It is also a common belief of pagan religions such as Druidism,
Spiritism, Theosophy, and Eckankar and is found in many tribal societies around
the world, in places such as Siberia, West Africa, North America, and
Australia. Although the majority of Judaism, Christianity and Islam do not
believe that individuals reincarnate, particular groups within these religions
do refer to reincarnation. In Judaism, the Hasidic tzadik was believed to know
the past lives of each person through his semi-prophetic abilities. In recent
decades, many Europeans and North Americans have developed an interest in
reincarnation. Some university researchers, such as Ian Stevenson and Jim B.
Tucker, have explored the issue of reincarnation and published reports of
children's memories of earlier lives in peer-reviewed journals. Skeptics have
stated that more reincarnation research is needed. Between 20 and 30 percent of
persons in western countries believe in reincarnation. (...)
Though the major Christian denominations reject the concept of
reincarnation, a large number of Christians profess the belief. In a survey by the Pew Forum in 2009, 24% of
American Christians expressed a belief in reincarnation. In a 1981 Survey in
Europe 31% of regular churchgoing Catholics expressed a belief in
reincarnation. Geddes MacGregor, an Episcopalian priest who is Emeritus
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California,
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a recipient of the California
Literature Award, and the first holder of the Rufus Jones Chair in Philosophy
and Religion at Bryn Mawr, demonstrates in his book Reincarnation in
Christianity: A New Vision of the Role of Rebirth in Christian Thought, that
Christian doctrine and reincarnation are not mutually exclusive belief systems.
Wikipedia (de): The major Christian churches
and, accordingly, most theologians reject the idea of reincarnation. However,
there are mainly in the esoteric literature of the past decades, numerous
biblical interpretations in which quotations from the New as well as the Old
Testament are interpreted as evidences for reincarnation. This is supported by
the Protestant theologian Helmut Obst: "In the Bible exists no clear
teaching of reincarnation. But there are a few passages which contain
statements that can be understood in terms of reincarnation. In particular, the
Elijah-Baptist-issue in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark make it impossible to
say that the New Testament know not at all the idea of reincarnation. It is
about John the Baptist, known as the returned prophet Elijah (Matthew 11:13-14
EU)."
Wikipedia (de): Reincarnation
research examines memories that have been interpreted as such from a previous
life. It examines whether this cases can be explained as fraud, deceit or by
psychological, psychic or spiritualistic assumptions. For so not explicable
cases the reincarnation research thinks the existence of an actual
reincarnation is possible.
This reference of Matthew
11:13-14 as possibly being some mention of possible reincarnation and the
return of the prophet Elijah made me consider what I do know. That when Christ returns
to Earth with the Father they will be spiritual lightbodies being both made in
flesh and light.
The return of Elijah is
also mentioned in Malichi; I found the following also from wikiversity;
The
Christian End of Elijah in Malachi
| "Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. And
he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of
children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse." |
—
Malachi 4:5–6
|
While the final mention of Elijah in the Hebrew Bible is in the Book of Chronicles, the Christian Bible's reversal of the ordering of the books of the Hebrew Bible in order to place the Book of Malachi, which prophesies a messiah, immediately before the Gospels, means that Elijah's final Old Testament appearance is in the Book of Malachi, where it is written, "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord." That day is described as the burning of a great furnace, "... so that it will leave them neither root nor branch." (Malachi 3:19) Traditionally, in Judaism, this is taken to mean the return of Elijah will precede the Messiah. In Christianity it is traditionally believed that Elijah's appearance during the transfiguration of Jesus fulfilled this prophecy. Additionally, these verses are believed to represent Elijah having a role in the end-times, immediately before the second coming of Jesus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah
I firmly believe that Christian scripture is not discussing reincarnation but rather Elijah also returning with Christ and the Father also as a lightbody; As part of the 144,000 of YHWH’s army.
We know as Christians that JESUS came to be with us to show us the way to live; that is to be fully immersed into our Fathers will and lead a life according to his will, which is loving one another and joyfully helping and giving to one another as part of the whole world brotherhood. Some ancient theologians have some very dark world views about humanity and most of this was the extension of the gloom of life that was present in their day, GOD bless their hearts! As an example below is a doctorial essay on this very topic, though it never really answers the question if reincarnation is true or not, it defiantly has a fine historical outline;
Historia: the Alpha Rho Papers
The
Argument over Reincarnation in Early Christianity
Elizabeth Jenson -
is a
senior at the University of Utah where she majors in history and plans on
attending graduate school in the fall. Elizabeth is a member of the Alpha Rho
chapter of Phi Alpha Theta.
It is believed that in 553 A.D.
during the Second Council of Constantinople the idea of reincarnation was found
to have no place in the Christian Church. Although reincarnation was not
officially rejected at this council, those early Church Fathers who were
accused of teaching the idea of reincarnation had their works banned. 553 A.D.
did mark the end of the debate on reincarnation within the Christian community.
Observing the fact that reincarnation is not a doctrine typically taught within
Christianity today one might assume that this council was called to settle an
argument about reincarnation and its supplemental ideas between Christians and
non-Christians. This was not the case.
Although the
idea of reincarnation was rejected by the Christian Church as a doctrine
because it was believed to contradict the doctrine of corporeal resurrection
and undermine the need for Christ’s redemptive sacrifices, it was a belief held
by many early Christian theologians such as Valentinus and Basilides of
Alexandria. However, many Christian theologians in the first several centuries
of Christianity, such as Saint Justin Martyr, did not believe in, or teach
about reincarnation. There were also those early Church Fathers, like Origen of
Alexandria, who were conflicted by the idea, and this internal conflict has
been observed throughout their writings. To better understand how some of the
early Church Fathers could teach reincarnation and still consider themselves
Christian, it is imperative to understand where their belief in reincarnation
came from.
Many of the
early Christian theologians who believed in the idea of reincarnation were
taught their religious beliefs at, or near Alexandria, Egypt; these are
theologians including Basilides, Valentinus and Origen. Christian and
non-Christians alike that were living in or near Alexandria were still greatly
influenced by the ideas of Plato. Plato is well-known for his writings in
science and philosophy. Plato also saw himself as a spiritual man and had many
ideas on religion and theology.1 First and
foremost, Plato believed in reincarnation. He taught that human souls had
previously existed in a perfect world and there enjoyed the presence of God.
Somehow these souls committed some sin and fell from God’s presence and were
placed into physical bodies on Earth as a punishment. The purpose of life is to
correct the soul’s initial mistake and to return to
Based upon Plato’s belief that the human body was a prison of punishment and that souls were on earth to gain a level of knowledge that would take more than one lifetime to learn, we can see why he believed in reincarnation. Plato’s writings are dated between 430-347 B.C., well before Christ’s ministry, so Plato had no known opinions on the mission or reality of Jesus Christ. Theologians who lived after Plato and studied from his teachings would run into conflict as they tried to align their newly acquired Christian beliefs with the Platonic ideas that they had already come to accept. These men would eventually be referred to today as Christian Platonists.
Two theories have been inferred from his surviving works: the first being that Christ was sent to save the gentiles from Jewish domination, and the second, that Christ was sent to save all people, both Jew and Gentile, from human religion. Neither of these ideas involves Christ making redemptive sacrifices for all mankind, and both describe Christ merely providing earthly redemption. We can see from these beliefs why Basilides was able to believe in reincarnation and still consider himself a Christian believing in some aspect of Christ’s Godly mission on earth. To Basilides, Christ offered no way for repentance to occur in this life, so punishment and repentance for sins must occur in the next life through reincarnation cycles. Basilides was not the only early Christian who blended the beliefs of Jesus Christ and Plato. He had many followers and it is believed that Basilides himself may have taught a man name Valentinus.
From this we can see why Valentinus’s belief in reincarnation does not limit Christ’s redemptive powers like it did to other Christians. That is not to say that Valentinus and his followers did not believe that Christ’s mission was sacred, but that it provided a sacred example and not a sacrifice.
Based upon this particular writing the contemporary author Elizabeth Prophet concluded, “There is no denying that here Origen is implying his belief in reincarnation by God assigning bodies based upon previous sins.”
He was influenced by the ideas of Plato because of where he grew up. Despite being raised in Alexandria, his spiritual education was Christian in nature from the beginning and not completely based upon Greek philosophy. Yet he still struggled to decide for himself whether or not the idea of reincarnation was true. Origen’s internal conflict shows how relevant the argument of reincarnation was during early Christianity despite its lack of prevalence in today’s Christian churches.
Based on this idea we can assume that Origen was trying to come to a conclusion on the reality of the reincarnation while trying to implement orthodox doctrines. We know from the differing opinions discussed so far that orthodox Christian doctrines cannot be taught harmoniously with the idea of reincarnation despite that so many early Christian tried. This could be why Origen was so conflicted while trying to find an answer. As each early Christian theologian’s ideas are studied we can see that their beliefs on Christ were the deciding factor on their belief in reincarnation. That is not to say that those who believed in reincarnation were not Christian, but that similar to today’s religious societies, being a Christian means something different to each person claiming the title.
epubs.utah.edu/index.php/historia/article/download/578/448
So Plato was the Father in which reincarnation began to rise, being schooled in a highly Pagan society we can clearly understand why he felt the way he did. The rise of Christianity in Rome lead way to a complete new understanding, that if we lead a life according to Fathers will ,these pagan ideas of reincarnation and karma no longer apply. Forgiveness replaces Karma and living life according to GOD’s will represents mankind in one lifetime can achieve the spiritual growth necessary to obtain the keys to the higher realms.
Many walk around on this planet today that do not realize that lower vibrations souls want to dwell in the midst of mankind and implant impressions and influences that are outside GOD’s truth. These lower vibration souls, lesser gods or entities attempt to attach themselves to people at a very young age and manipulate you, your thoughts and even your actions. The only way to overcome them is to lead a life with a good, caring and loving soul and remaining focused on our Father YHWH (IAM) and the Holy Spirit as your only guidance. Every psychic or spiritual reader outside the prophets of the church are following the influence of their attachments which only have one agenda, to manipulate and misguide you on your life path.(we lovingly call these demons)
The Creator , Father EL SHADDI did not create life and this world to dwell in darkness but rather everlasting light as the original blue print from the Garden of Eden. We still have this garden within us if we keep our eyes on Christ, the Father and Holy Spirit. AMEN
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