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81770f No.638351

Why don't christians believe in reincarnation? Is there any denomination or mystical school that does? Is it possible to be a christian while believing in reincarnation?

17d084 No.638352

>Why don't christians believe in reincarnation?

It's nowhere in Scripture, why would we?

>Is there any denomination or mystical school that does?

They wouldn't be Christian if they did.

>Is it possible to be a christian while believing in reincarnation?

No.


3ca4b5 No.638354

>>638351

Tbh it is possible to be Christian while believing in it, if one believes that death is the end of your cycle (I've encountered this). I've seen people believe in reincarnation to explain things like poverty, etc, and even pre-existence. If you're a mainline Christian, you can't though.


17d084 No.638355

>>638354

Which body will you be at the resurrection?


03d080 No.638356

that's heresy


3ca4b5 No.638357

>>638355

Reincarnationist either believe in the last body or that you keep your species and appearance, and that in past lives people would have recognized you. So one of those.


bd11cb No.638361

>>638351

"It is appointed to man once to die, and then the judgment"


9a73fb No.638368

>>638355

>Which body will you be at the resurrection?

God literally predicted people like you. Read 1 corinthians 15:35-36

>But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

>Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

<but anon God quickens our mortal bodies in romans 8:11

john 6:63

>It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

<but anon the spirit /=/ a body

1 corinthians 15:44

>It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

<but anon the example of the dry bones rising from the dead in ezekiel 37 is actually going to happen

It already happened see matthew 27:52-53

>And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

>And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

But of course revelation hasn't happened yet.


3806a6 No.638372

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0cec83 No.638373

>>638368

Read the Bible


ac6e8b No.638407

Bump


cad69f No.638432

>>638351

Religions that teach reincarnation have no regard for the ego or personality, whereas in Christianity personality is seen as a gift from God. Through emptying ourselves of sin we become purer personalities, so it's no wonder that the saints are greatly unique characters. Ironically the moderns who stress 'special snowflakeism' all have weak personalities, the closer you are to God the more your actual personality is set aflame


1990f2 No.638434

>>638351

>Why don't christians believe in reincarnation?

Because this teaching is garbage

also

>And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Heb 9:27)


479f95 No.638441

File: 1db6beb2287ab06⋯.jpg (19.96 KB, 220x261, 220:261, 220px-Origen.jpg)

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It spread among some early gnostic sects I recall.

Origen of Alexandria (185 AD.) believed in reincarnation.

He was the first first theologian to formulate a systematic system:

This is the "The Philocalia of Origen":

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/origen_philocalia_02_text.htm

A summary of his views on reincarnation (with bias towards supporting them) is found here:

https://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/history/church-history.html

Origen was anathematized (declared heretical) in the second Ecumenical Council in 553:

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Origen

>If anyone does not anathematize Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, Apollinarius Nestorius, Eutyches and Origen, as well as their heretical books, and also all other heretics who have already been condemned and anathematized by the holy, catholic and apostolic church and by the four holy synods which have already been mentioned, and also all those who have thought or now think in the same way as the aforesaid heretics and who persist in their error even to death: let him be anathema.

On a personal note, try and I take an apophatic aproach to the matter: I don't know either way, and it's not my business to speculate as if I knew. That would not make me wiser, nor bring me closer to salvation. "Wax on wax off" .

>>638432

"more your actual personality is set aflame" . Christians with weak personalities end up joining cults and speaking in tongues, mistaking their emotions for God. There was fire among the saints, not flames. A flame is a flickering thing, born of earthly passion. But fire keeps on whether flames are there or not.


9a73fb No.638449

>>638441

>bla bla bla theology/humanism, which is philosophy

Colossians 2:8

>Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Nice to know where the heresy originated though. Just read the Bible more as >>638373 states' ironically.


464da4 No.638450

>Why don't christians believe in reincarnation?

illogical, and completely incompatible with divine revelation or natural law.

>Is it possible to be a christian while believing in reincarnation?

no


040c7f No.638456

>>638351

>Reincarnation

Think of it like this, whether reincarnation is true or not, is it extraneous, or does it even detract from the goal of living a fulfilled life?

Although it might be unpopular to say, the belief in reincarnation seems in my opinion to lead people to a lack of concern for the present life, and to Stoicism, but not to seize the day. Reincarnation is too inward looking to "put a light on a stand, that all may see it" (Mark 4:21). If we are to be useful to our neighbours, like the lamp is useful to those dwelling in the house, reincarnation is a useless idea (and uncertain too).


43de5a No.638504

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>>638351

OP, it sounds like you're more interested in this reincarnation rather than Jesus Christ. You should be more interested in knowing the Truth rather than trying to put God in a box so you can kick it around. You submit to God, not the other way around. Follow Jesus Christ, not some false theology.


d409d3 No.638509

>>638351

>Why don't christians believe in reincarnation?

Because it's laid out pretty clearly that each person who has ever lived is a unique creation and not a stop on some road the soul travels down through history

>Is there any denomination or mystical school that does?

Gnostic heretics believed in a form of reincarnation due to their warped theology of them being divine beings trapped in a material world. No denomination that can truly be said to be Christian holds to such theology.

>Is it possible to be a christian while believing in reincarnation?

No, it is directly at odds with the teachings on the afterlife.


28dcaa No.639720

You only ever get "reincarnated" once, in the Resurrection of the Dead. After that it's the General Judgement.


9433bf No.640162

>>638449

I'm certain you do not proclaim to try and bring more souls to Christ with such a disregard for the knowledge of the Bible.


819e5c No.640233

>>638351

No, depends on if you count people who aren't Christian who like to pretend they're Christian as Christian, no.

Reincarnation is inherently antithetical to Christianity as there can be no lasting judgment if you're just thrown into a new body and dropped back into the thick of the world.

Christ would have to be a liar as he spoke very clearly about eternal damnation.


36acf0 No.640239

>>638373

lol nice rebuttal to someone posting scripture




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