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A lovely day full of snow to keep me home and I was compelled to comment on this post. Once again, I am not a Biblical scholar, just to make my post crystal clear.

Reincarnation is a delightful thought - that we can "come back" once our time on this earth is done, but this concept is not supported by Christian doctrines and is viewed as repellent. Why? This passage and that passage clearly allude to reincarnation, why would this not be supportable?

The answer to that is very simple. If reincarnation were a fact, what is the gain? What is the gain of reincarnation? I have been taught and I accept that we have one shot to sort it out. We aren't mandated to be "perfect," but to try our very best to learn from our mistakes, to reach out and do whatever we can to serve our neighbors and community, and to be better than we were, yesterday. To entertain a "do over" is treading very, very dangerous ground.

What happens when we die? Nobody knows, but there have been personal interpretations and it is the concept of "Faith" that comforts us. To have faith that God does, indeed, exist and that God appeared to mankind in the form of Jesus and taught the Way. To maintain the faith that there is something that we human beings cannot comprehend that loves us in a manner that we also cannot comprehend, that's what it's about. Listening, learning, teaching, serving. All of these things are beautiful aspects of being human.

A child "remembers" a past life to identify a murderer. Well. I'll be. When I was 3, I thought that I was Lassie. Then, when I wasn't Lassie, I thought that I was the Apache warrior, Cochise. There is a lot of credence being given children, these days, including them identifying themselves as the opposite gender that they were born with and parents actually administering hormone therapy (yeah, it's legal) to kids as young as 3 (three years old) to block their puberty so they don't develop into whatever they were born as.

I choose to not entertain this concept. Whatever someone else needs to believe is their own business. Tweet