CHRISTIANNEWS.COM.- Reincarnation is foreign to the Bible. In fact, the Bible teaches just the opposite. Hebrews 9:27. It is established that men die only once and then the judgment.
The essence of reincarnation is that we come back for many lifetimes. Among other things, this allows us to avoid the reality of facing God in judgment for our behaviors.
The concept of reincarnation is not difficult to understand, once we consider how Westerners and Easterners conceive of time.
How do we see time?
Westerners view time as linear. We are born and time passes and we die. Time continues linearly from past to present to future.
In oriental cultures time is circular. What comes, goes. Circular time comes from observing the cycles of the earth. All four seasons occur and then come back again and again. Crops are planted, grown, harvested, and the cycle begins again.
So when you think about it, reincarnation is just a reflection of circular time. We are born and we die and then we go round and round.
Reincarnation teaches that present life forms, from insects to humans, are a direct reflection of various factors, such as how well we behaved in previous lives and the amount of karma, good or bad, we have. The better we were, and the more good Karma, the higher up the food chain we came back.
Hindus refrain from eating beef, because the cow may be a friend or relative from a past life.
The sheer number of Christians who hold views on reincarnation continues to amaze me.
Why do people believe in reincarnation?
Why might some believe in reincarnation? We have already mentioned circular time.
Another reason is that the Bible teaches that there are evil spirits (“familiar spirits”) that have been around for centuries. These spirits are intimately aware of the lives of others over the centuries and can influence people today with the thoughts, emotions, and experiences of people long dead.
These deluded people begin to believe that they have existed in previous lives and that the thoughts and emotions of others are really their own.
Another reason is that our brains are capable of connecting all kinds of present and past events and then fusing them together in ways that make us think that we have experienced certain situations and events before. reincarnation is the last déjà vous .
When General Patton arrived on the Carthaginian battlefield, he observed, “I have been on this battlefield before. I fought here with the Romans.” Unfortunately, Patton was duped. We only have one life. My belief is that his brain was playing a trick on him. trick .
Sylvester Stallone once related that in a previous life he was a Central American monkey. If that’s true, then we have more evidence for both evolution and reincarnation, just kidding.
Written by Roger Barrier in cross walk.
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