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what is the difference between reincarnation and resurrectoin?

to my understanding people who are hindu beleve in reincarnation and christians believe in resurrection. those who are hindu believe we will keep being reincarnated till we are the perfected beings Lord krishna wants. Do christians believe that we will not be reincarnated and either be sent to heaven or hell? is this what is meant by resurrection?

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In Christian terms, resurrection was a one time thing unique to Jesus. It's coming back to life into the world in the same form you were in before.
Reincarnation - new life. Resurrection - resumption of previous life.
I believe one of the main things is that reincarnation you die and return as some one else not having the same memories, nor as the same person, sorta saying your soul has live over and over in many bodies, not with the ideal of eternity of life but a temporal state only to be repeated. but resurrection is dying in the physical when resurrected you return and retain a knowledge of the past life, and your understanding that the resurrection is done with the belief it is to everlasting life, and you believe this has happened because of an external force (God).
Resurrection brings you back in the same body, Reincarnation is transfering your soul to another.
Reincarnation is being reborn into different lives, in different people. Resurrection is being reanimated. Your same body and same soul being brought back to life.
resurrection- woke up from the dead reincarnation-new body(either person,animal,or plant) I'm christian
Reincarnation is when the same spirit is reborn into a different body. Resurrection is when the spirit re-enters the once dead body bringing that body back to life.
Resurrection is a one time event, where we get a glorified, eternal version of our original body ... a body that is fully compatible with Heaven and Earth, or Hell. Resurrection Day is also known as Judgment Day.
Reincarnation means returning to life in a different form (a different incarnation), while resurrection means returning to life in the same form. Christians believe in a particular instance of resurrection, involving Jesus. And also another instance of resurrection performed by Jesus, but that one is less central to their beliefs.
Reincarnation is when the dead are born again. Resurrection is when the dead wake up.
Resurrection involves bringing the same person or entity back to life unchanged, while reincarnation involves the soul passing from life to life in different forms, seeking perfection. Christians do not believe that the soul seeks perfection through multiple lifetimes...they believe that the soul inhabits one body once.
reincarnation = multiple resurrection = once & final
In a Muslim view point: Reincarnation is where you come back as a different being, you lose your memory, past sins, and past good deeds. I know, it's a weird concept, it's not even you anymore. Resurrection (I don't think this is the word your thinking of) is when you come back to life (on Judgment Day) without your memory, but with your past sins and deeds.
Yes, that is what most kinds of Christianity teach now - -that all will be resurrected (which means raised from the dead, following this life) and live forever with Jesus in Heaven. HOWEVER - Reincarnation USED to be a part of the theology of several early Christian groups, until a feud between two major Bishops (who disagreed on this and several other issues) was settled by Rroman Emperor Constantine, (a Pagan who claimed to convert to christianity ) -- Constantine threw his political and social power behind the more powerful Bishop (who did NOT beleive in Reincarnation) , and the other Bishop (and all those who had beleived in reincarnation) were declared "anathema" and heretics. In 553A.D. Byzantine emperor Justinian (at the Second Council of Constantinople) had the teachings of reincarnation *banned* and removed from Christian scriptures -- but he didn’t get all of them; there remain some very powerful allusions to reincarnation in the bible. Here's a resource for more info on Christianity & Reincarnation: http://a1.nu/christian/reincarnation.htm Blessings -- ~Gaia
Reincarnation explained - comprehensively: Bg 15.8 P The Yoga of the Supreme Person At the time of death, the consciousness he has created will carry him on to the next type of body. If he has made his consciousness like that of a cat or dog, he is sure to change to a cat's or dog's body. And, if he has fixed his consciousness on godly consciousness, he will be transferred to Krsnaloka in the spiritual world and will associate with Krsna. It is a false claim that after the annihilation of this body everything is finished. The individual soul is transmigrating from one body to another, and his present body and present activities are the background of his next body. One gets a different body according to karma, and he has to quit this body in due course. It is stated here that the subtle body, which carries the conception of the next body, develops another body in the next life. This process of transmigrating from one body to another and struggling while in the body is called karsati or struggle for existence. SB 4.29.64 P Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi In dreams we sometimes see things that we have never experienced in the present body. Sometimes in dreams we think that we are flying in the sky, although we have no experience of flying. This means that once in a previous life, either as a demigod or astronaut, we flew in the sky. The impression is there in the stockpile of the mind, and it suddenly expresses itself. It is like fermentation taking place in the depths of water, which sometimes manifests itself in bubbles on the water's surface. Sometimes we dream of coming to a place we have never known or experienced in this lifetime, but this is proof that in a past life we experienced this. The impression is kept within the mind and sometimes becomes manifest either in dream or in thought. The conclusion is that the mind is the storehouse of various thoughts and experiences undergone during our past lives. Thus there is a chain of continuation from one life to another, from previous lives to this life, and from this life to future lives. This is also sometimes proved by saying that a man is a born poet, a born scientist or a born devotee. If, like Maharaja Ambarisa, we think of Krsna constantly in this life (sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh), we will certainly be transferred to the kingdom of God at the time of death. Even if our attempt to be Krsna conscious is not complete, our Krsna consciousness will continue in the next life. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (6.41): prapya punya-krtam lokan usitva sasvatih samah sucinam srimatam gehe yoga-bhrasto 'bhijayate "The unsuccessful yogi, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy." If we rigidly follow the principles of meditation on Krsna, there is no doubt that in our next life we will be transferred to Krsnaloka, Goloka Vrndavana. SB 4.29.66 Talks Between Narada and King Pracinabarhi O King, all good fortune unto you! The mind is the cause of the living entity's attaining a certain type of body in accordance with his association with material nature. According to one's mental composition, one can understand what the living entity was in his past life as well as what kind of body he will have in the future. Thus the mind indicates the past and future bodies. PURPORT The mind is the index of information about one's past and future lives. If a man is a devotee of the Lord, he cultivated devotional service in his previous life. Similarly, if one's mind is criminal, he was criminal in his last life. In the same way, according to the mind, we can understand what will happen in a future life. SB 7.15.69 P Instructions for Civilized Human Beings "By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together is the duration of Brahma's one day. And such also is the duration of his night." Bhagavan Sri Krsna can remember incidents from millions of years ago. Similarly, His pure devotee like Narada Muni can also remember incidents from a past life millions and millions of years ago.
“Reincarnation,” says The New Encyclopedia Britannica, means “rebirth of the soul in one or more successive existences, which may be human, animal, or, in some instances, vegetable.” The term “rebirth” is also used to describe this phenomenon, but the word “reincarnation” is commonly accepted. Several dictionaries of Indian languages use the words interchangeably.The word “resurrection” is here translated from the Greek word a·na′sta·sis, which literally means “a standing up again.” Resurrection thus involves a reactivating of the life pattern of the individual. The Creator of heaven and earth is infinite in wisdom. (Job 12:13) Remembering the life patterns of dead ones is not a problem for him. (Compare Isaiah 40:26.) Jehovah God also abounds in love. (1 John 4:8) Hence, he can use his perfect memory, not to punish the dead for the bad they have done, but to bring them back to life on a paradise earth with the personality they had before they died. For millions like Mukundbhai, a resurrection will mean being with their loved ones again. But imagine what it can mean for those who are living now. Take, for example, Mukundbhai’s son, who has come to know the wonderful truth about God and his purposes. How comforting it is for him to know that his father is not trapped in an almost endless cycle of rebirths, each surrounded by wickedness and suffering! He is simply asleep in death, awaiting a resurrection. How thrilling it is for him to contemplate the possibility of one day sharing with his father what he himself has learned from the Bible! It is God’s will that “all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth.” (1 Timothy 2:3, 4) Now is the time to learn how you, along with millions of others already doing God’s will, can live forever on a paradise earth.—John 17:3.
I believe reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", is a doctrine or metaphysical belief that some essential part of a living being (in some variations only human beings) survives death to be reborn in a new body. This essential part is often referred to as the spirit or soul, the "higher" or "true" self; and, resurrection in the literal sense of the word, refers to the event of a dead person completely returning to life.