I’m not opposed to reincarnattion. After all God does what ever he wants. However I have to give 3 objections here:
First of all if reincarnation exists then the whole concept of “free will” is demolished since God decides who gets reincarnated.
Second ,if reincarnattion is real universal judgement cannot exist. For example: Why should someone take a second change over another? And since God is indeferent to suffering and does not control actions ,who guarantees the person reincarnated that the second life won’t suck?
And third of all. It’s strange that in all of the bible we don’t have one reincarnated person. So yeah
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As I’ve said I’m not entirely opposed to it. But reincarnation is different from ressurection. You can’t point to people coming back multiple times in the same body and say they are reincarnated no. Unless you want to use whatever you call
Reincarnation is coming back either in a body of an animal or in another body,with social and economical setting all together. In Buddhism you don’t even have any past memory(or Hinduism don’t remember which one) actually.
I never said you could. What I did say was you can’t appeal to “it’s appointed for men to die once” as some universal truth applicable in all case for a host of reasons. One it’s just a wooden literalism and two, the passage is teaching about Jesus not our post-Morten fate. Three, it’s quite clear some men never died and some died more than once. If p then q.
I know. But it is the most common given verse from Christian’s. It’s the brunt of the reasoning why they reject reincarnation. The line with Jesus saying “today you will be with me in paradise” is another.
As a rule, my concept of a “University study” has historically been significantly different than the UVA study, and to this day I’m still confused regarding precisely what the UVA study is or looks like. Feel free to shed light on the study.
It occurs to me that if it were possible to get sent back “for another go” then there wouldn’t be any point in some people’s work being burnt up as Paul talks about; if someone screwed up that bad, just send them back around!
Those don’t invalidate the principle: it says it is appointed to man once to die. But Jesus is in charge of the appointments book.
And there’s a good reason for the lack of arguments against “the scary stuff”.
A really good argument against reincarnation would be proof that reincarnation is impossible, or completely and simply explained by something other than physical proof. And, for better or worse, this no such proof and “complete and simple explanations” are, pretty much, “a dime a dozen”.
And God is in charge of the judgment after death and if He says another go then it’s another go, whether or not you or Dale allow Him to actually be God.
Those of us who hold reincarnation to be physically and theologically nonsensical are in no way obliged to defend our belief that God is all powerful. Those two positions are not mutually exclusive.
You need to defend your belief why reincarnation is nonsensical theologically and physically. That no one can do. You need to explain why you, the pot, get to tell the potter what He can and cannot do. And remember, us Christians believe a ton of things that are “physically nonsensical.” Magical infinite paradise with resurrected super bodies being one.
There is irrefutable proof, impossible to explain away, for sure proven, no doubt about it, validated by experts, positive evidence, for every whacked out idea imaginable. Nobody has time and resource to debunk it all.
The idea personalities or souls can drop into the brains of pigeons or other people is the extraordinary claim, so the onus of defense runs the other direction. I already submitted that I summarily consider investigating the idea a waste of effort. I just register my opinion that it is groundless bunk, and from there It is fine by me if others pursue it, .
On the basis of revelation. Of course, many do reject those beliefs as nonsensical as well, but at least orthodox systematic theology is tethered to Biblical study.
If true, it would possibly be a demon. Why?
Demons worked out Jesus’ identity before his disciple did, plus they are also into deception. they lie etc etc. -OR- we are dealing with a mental health issue (perhaps with a demon).
