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What does the Bible say about reincarnation? Does the Bible even mention the possibility of reincarnation?

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The bible says it appointed to men once to die, and then to judgment. no reincarnation
Reincarnation is an un-Biblical belief. We believe that when we are "absent from the body; we are present with the Lord."
Not really.
No it does not. It only talks about a resurrection back on earth.
The Bible is a little ambiguous on the subject. The reason is that not every book written by a prophet or a disciple made it into the Bible. Some were left out. As a result, the passages related to reincarnation can be sometimes ambiguous. However, the concensus is against reincarnation. People who believe on Jesus Christ, and are born again, inherit the Kingdom...they want to go to Heaven and be with the Lord, not come back again...unless they come back as an avatar on a specific mission, like an angel, so to speak.
The Bible says there's no reincarnation. Hebrews 9:27.
Reincarnation As per Hinduism, the life on earth is not a discrete one time event. It is just one episode in the play. There would be multiple appearances (births) before the soul finally takes leave from the cycle. The birth is not just limited to being born as human, it includes the births as the animals, plants, even as the divines who rule the parts of nature ! After-all, all these things have a life. The appearance of the soul in any of such forms is called reincarnation. After so many births when the soul is freed of any more reincarnation, it is in the state of mukti or liberation. This is the ultimate state.
From the beginning Judaism has traditionally accepted reincarnation as fact. The oldest (original) form of Christianity embraced the truth of reincarnation. However, the pagan Roman emperor Constantine redesigned Jesus as a type of soldier figurehead which would help him gain greater military powers and defeat his enemies (like Paul, he claimed to have had divine visions, except Connie's ambitions were political and militarial). Although Constantine's Christian bishops refused to accept his revised Christianity, Connie had his way through brute force, establishing the revised and corrupted Christian church we have today. To powerful early "Christians" like Constantine, reincarnation gave too much power to the individual and made salvation a personal thing between the individual and "God." Constantine and those who followed him wanted the church to have absolute control over every person's salvation and become the middleman who would edit, translate and dictate Jesus' teachings into things they never were. This is simply unbiased fact that can't be changed by all the anti-reincarnationist Christians who continue to argue against the original teachings of Jesus and traditional Judaism. The Jewish writings have many refs to reincarnation, e.g., "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." There are numerous NT references for reincarnation. Besides the most obvious (totally destroyed by Constantine's reinterpretation) - 'Truly, literally, you must be born again... no one goes up to heaven but he who came down from heaven', there is "Who sinned, THIS MAN or his parents, that he was BORN BLIND?" According to the bible Jesus' answer was that the man was born blind so that he could be healed by him. As any rational mind should be able to discern, Jesus' answer applied to only this particular blind man whose path crossed that of Jesus. Past-life karma was a Jewish doctrine simply accepted as truth in the religion to which Jesus and his followers belonged. Jesus would not have disputed the reference to reincarnation in the above question, because (*according to historical fact*) Jesus believed in and taught reincarnation and karma. The beatitudes are a sparkling example of this. The old standby "it is appointed that man dies once and then face judgment" that the unaware continue to drag out and throw at every question about reincarnation is an ABSURD argument against reincarnation. Reincarnationists do not believe that bodies are reanimated, or that "the man" returns after death. Reincarnationists know that it is the spiritual energy of man that returns, inhabiting a new "man" (new body). Jews knew that; Jesus knew that... You have to wonder WHAT THE HECK DO THESE IGNORANT PEOPLE THINK SURVIVES DEATH to "face judgment" in the first place? The soul of course, is what survives death: the spiritual energy of the person who died. And it is the SOUL that reincarnates, not "the man." This judgment referred to in the above verse is Judaism's Gehenna, the original biblical concept of after-death residence of souls, where the soul of the individual faces and contemplates his past life, the mistakes he made, the good things he did, the things he achieved and did not achieve. It is a place of judgment and introspection, which is completed before the individual moves on. JUDAISM REJECTS THE NONSENSE OF THE CHRISTIAN HELL. This idea of a Hades afterlife was tacked on to early Christianity by pagan leaders who wanted absolute control over the Christian people worldwide, including the ultimate power over every man's afterlife! Jesus would not have believed in hell. He believed in the Jewish Gehenna, a temporary stopover of spiritual introspection. Reincarnationists (at least those not bound by the superstitions of eastern dogma) believe that the dynamic of reincarnation is free will (yours and those around you) and that we learn by the choices we make and in contemplating the choices we have made. Other bible verses contradict the single, solitary "man dies but once" verse. Paul wrote, "I die daily." There's a reference in the NT to "the second death." Clearly other bible verses disagree with the "once" remark, which is an indication that it has a limited meaning. "Be ye therefore perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect," Jesus instructed his followers. He didn't say 'hey, do your best,' or 'if you just believe I existed that's enough...' He said BE AS PERFECT AS GOD IS. Jesus indicated, according to the bible, that absolute perfection is within the reach of every human when he made the statement, YE ARE GODS. However the word is interpreted, as "perfect" or "complete", the definition is "without room for improvement" - i.e. PERFECT. Anyone with a functioning mind should be able to comprehend that perfection and godliness cannot be attained in a single lifetime and that unbiased examination of historical fact is evidence that both the Old and New Testaments do support the validity of reincarnation, although the bible clearly has been altered by Greek and Roman leaders who combined pagan myths with the Judaism of Jesus. Jesus was a Reincarnationist, and reincarnation is truth.
Quite a lot of the reincarnations of the past meant we went to hell and then into a new life.... But nowadays.. Humans are in their last life before a greater judgement.. Then - once their time in paradise or the lake of fire is over - a small number of eons - then all creatures get reconciled to God's love and punishments are gradually eliminated from the universe forever... After the great judgement to come people will continue to migrate into different bodies as before - yet in greater ways for the saints... -Cheers!
There were references in the Bible to reincarnation until the 4th Century CE when a corrupt Roman Emperor had them removed at the Treaty of Nicea, threatening the Cardinals who attended with Death. There are references to certain ideas such as karma still intact, though: 'as ye sow, so shall ye reap'. In popular culture we have 'what goes around, comes around'. The Treaty of Nicea is mentioned in the book / film 'The Da Vinci Code', but / and is historical fact.
the bible is not ambiguous about the subject at all. it clearly gives a hope of resurrection from the dead, all through. there will be a limited number of people who in their death they are resurrected as spirit creatures, for a specific purpose, to be kings and priests with Jesus in his heavenly kingdom. there will also be a resurrection from the dead of the vast majority of mankind, here on earth. these people will have the chance to conform with God's will and live forever on an earth restored to a paradise, as was God's original purpose for mankind.
The concept of reincarnation is completely without foundation in the Bible, which clearly tells us that we die once and then face judgment (Hebrews 9:27). The Bible never mentions people having a second chance at life or coming back as different people or animals. Jesus told the criminal on the cross, "Today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43), not "You will have another chance to live a life on this earth." Matthew 25:46 specifically tells us that believers go on to eternal life while unbelievers go onto eternal punishment. Reincarnation has been a popular belief for thousands of years, but it has never been accepted by Christians or followers of Judaism because it is contradictory to Scripture. The one passage that some point to as evidence for reincarnation is Matthew 17:10-12 which links John the Baptist with Elijah. However, the passage does not say that John the Baptist was Elijah reincarnated but that he would have fulfilled the prophecy of Elijah's coming if the people had believed his words and thereby believed in Jesus as the Messiah (Matthew 17:12). The people specifically asked John the Baptist if he was Elijah, and he said, "No, I am not" (John 1:21). Belief in reincarnation is an ancient phenomenon and is a central tenet within the majority of Indian religious traditions, such as Hinduism, Sikhism, and Jainism. Many modern pagans also believe in reincarnation as do some New Age movements, along with followers of spiritism. For the Christian, however, there can be no doubt: reincarnation is unbiblical and must be rejected as false.