Could a Little Boy Be Proof of Reincarnation?

ABC News ^ | April 20, 04 | ABC News

[Junior]

There is no such thing as reincarnation.

One could say there is little, or contradictory evidence, for reincarnation, but even the skeptics never come out and say "there is no such thing." To borrow a leaf from our creationist brethren on these threads, "lack of evidence is not evidence of lack."

[Quix]

To a degree.

Certainly assuming reincarnation to be THE explanation would take a LOT of faith.

But more than 500 eyewitnesses seeing Christ in the flesh AFTER the Resurrection is rather unique. There's a LOT more logically valid support for His Resurrection than for anything related to reincarnation. imho.

Then there have been the recent resurrections from the dead in Mexico and China from Christian prayer and intervention.

No, no links. I suspect a web search might work.

[Aliska]

It's not necessarily reincarnation.

It is a curiosity that these cases usually have someone with a common language or culture from the past.

It's also odd that the father had to find the identity of the dead airman. It isn't real clear, but one would expect the boy to known what his name had been in the alleged past life.

It could be a case of possession. I wondered if the boy was baptized because I thought perhaps it would protect against things such as this, but then I remembered my catholic girlfriend who had left the church but presumably having had her son baptized telling me a similar story about her son about this age talking about having been a fighter pilot.

I've studied hundreds of accounts such as this and never heard of one where a devout Christian was troubled with such a thing which is not to say that it doesn't happen.

Believer? I concede that there very well are probably spirits who pass on information to the living which can be verified. Of that I have no doubt. Whether it is proof of reincarnation is another matter.

A couple of my kids came up with similar odd stuff like this and I didn't press the issue. Now, I chalk it off to the fact that I wasn't bringing them up in a normal Christian manner.

There was that case in Chicago years ago where the spirit of the murdered girl gave her friend information which helped to solve her murder. It, too, involved nightmares, but there was no chance that reincarnation was involved because the "medium" and the murdered person had lived as contemporaries.

[Drango]

There is no such thing as reincarnation.

I'm Henry VIII, I am, I am.

[djf]

I find it hard to believe that the parents could be accused of promoting it, at least not at the start. Like many cases, the kid showed weird, unexplainable behaviors and memories, knowledge that would freak out the parents.

When I first met my wife, she had dreams often that we had lived together before, in a small town I never heard of. A few years later, we bought a house, which had an address in the same small town. In 1995, I had a dream we had been together, had 3 kids, and I was killed in a farming accident at 41 years old. In 2000, my wife died from a massive brain aneurysm... she was 41 years old.

The fact that we met and fell in love was not that unusual, we were in fact born about 175 miles apart.

On the east coast. We met after we had both moved to Washington state.

None of us knows all the ways things work. I think if we ever did, we'd be astounded, amazed, and horrified all at once.

[lawdude]

Has ANY of this been confirmed?

[Hank Rearden]

I knew a therapist in Santa Fe who was at a party ....a strange woman came up to him and said "You strangled me in a previous lifetime" ...He was lucky she didnt sue.

"And I'll strangle you in this one too, you freak, if you don't get the $%#@ away from me right NOW!"

[Bon mots]

There was a story similar to this in Ireland or the UK not long ago. (Not Bridey Murphy, which has been debunked.)

A mother who died and left young kids behind, then came back as a man or something, but he also convinced her children it was her...

[Blue Screen of Death]

He should sue for back pay and hope he gets Shirly McClain on the jury.

[CzarNicky]

"I'd wake him up and he'd be screaming," Andrea told ABCNEWS' Chris Cuomo. She said when she asked her son what he was dreaming about, he would say, "Airplane crash on fire, little man can't get out."

Watched the World Trade Center loop a few too many times perhaps.

[alnick]

I agree with your possible scenarios, but there's one more: The parents made it all up. The kid has a natural interest in planes. The parents, either consciously or subconsciously, fed the kid information.

[millefleur]

The little boy could be being used by "familiar spirits", see Leviticus 20:6
I'm not saying the little boy is doing anything wrong himself, he's just a little boy..but he IS being USED.

Familiar spirits exist through the ages, gathering knowledge of people and places. But God has warned against consulting them. God would not warn us against something that doesn't exist.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. the real "reality check" .. this is called "familar spirits". It's nothing new.

[wolficatZ]

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[Arkinsaw]

Put him behind he controls of an F4U and let's see what happens...

LOL

[kissmyconservativebutt]

ABC news. That is all I need to know.

[kissmyconservativebutt]

Put him behind he controls of an F4U and let's see what happens...

Thanks for the laugh.

[Oblongata]

???

Yes I would say there are at least two other possible explanations. In fact there are infinite possible explanations.

But I have to say the two possible explanations you mentioned are the least likely and most unfathomable, of any of the infinite possible explanations.

[RonHolzwarth]

A story like this would not even make the news in Nepal, India, or any other Asian country.

There, the Buddhists are just as convinced of their beliefs as the "Christians" here are of theirs.

[Lord_Baltar]

I dare say the best possible explainations are those we won't find until after we shirk this mortal coil, and find out first hand.

Until then it's ALL just perceived interpretations and biases.

None of this, Religions included, can be proven conclusively.