Matt 17:11 He answered, “Elijah does indeed come first and will restore all things. And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
Later they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No
Jesus referred to John was Elijah but John said that he was not Elijah.
People in a regressive hypnosis remember their past lives. Now, if you ask them before hipnosis who they were in past lives , they do not know because his past is in the subconscious.
I do not know.
What you think about it?
Reincarnation works this way: John *was* Elijah; John *is not* Elijah - he *is* now John.
The subconscious mind has access to details about your past lives, but the conscious mind usually blocks these memories from being recalled. Good reasons for this, such as, we couldn’t function in the present life if we identify too strongly with a past self. The subconscious connection to the higher, eternal self (or "soul") can be tapped by methods such as meditation, self-hypnosis and dreams.
The purpose of reincarnation is to experience free will (not just our own but also the free will of others with whom we have contact) and to experience the consequences of that free will. Not everything "bad" that happens to us is karma, but what *is* karma will always teach us something and is always constructive. We’re here to learn, and to a large extent we design our own lives, the challenges we want to meet, the obstacles we want to overcome. The idea of a punishing spiteful deity is nonsense.
Just as the early Christian church changed OT verses to fit their doctrines (for example, substituting "hell" for the word meaning "grave" — Jews don’t believe in hell), bible references to reincarnation were retranslated and altered, and some removed altogether. The Pagan Roman emperor Constantine is largely responsible for revamping this small Jewish sect into the powerful, political, war-mongering authority which would become known as the "Christian" church.
From the beginning Judaism has traditionally accepted reincarnation as fact: "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.
Numerous NT biblical reference for reincarnation. Besides the most obvious (Truly, literally, you must be born again… no one goes up to heaven but he who came down from heaven … how could that be any clearer?), there is "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" which is dismissed by the unaware who don’t know that Jesus historically taught reincarnation and that reincarnation was simply assumed to be true by his followers.
According to the bible Jesus answered that the man was born blind so that Jesus could heal him. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this could not be applied to every person who is born without sight — it applied, according to the bible, to the one blind man whose path crossed Jesus.
The nonsense about "it is appointed that man dies once and then face judgment" that the unaware trot out at every question about reincarnation is just that: nonsense. No sense as an argument against reincarnation. What exactly do the critics think survives death to "face judgment"? The soul of course: the spiritual energy of the person who died. And it is the soul that reincarnates, not "the man." The "judgment" faced by the "soul" is Gehenna, the spiritual stopover place (according to Jesus’ Judaism) where we contemplate our past life and make plans for the next. Reincarnationists know that it is the spiritual energy of man that returns, inhabiting a new "man" (new body). Jews knew that; Jesus knew that.
Historically, *factually*, Jesus was a Reincarnationist, as were his original Christians. Matthew 5:48’s "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" - with his statement "Ye are gods" - conveys his message that perfection and godliness are within the potential of every living being - but clearly not in one lifetime.
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