[RonHolzwarth]

re: "in the spirit of Elijah" doesn't seem to resonate with you, I guess."

No, for two reasons.

1) The Bible does not say that.

2) I'm Jewish.

And, Jewish Mysticism thought allows for the "possibility" of reincarnation, but it is not to be the focus of our lives, we are in the here and now.

[Quix]

My memory is that one of the translations says it that way on one of the related Scriptures.

Suffice it to say, Scripture is not particularly clear what those verses mean.

Nevertheless,

IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE TO DIE, AND AFTER THAT THE JUDGMENT

seems clearer.

If, for some very strange and to my mind very unBiblical reason one wanted to believe in reincarnation . . . and still pretend they were submitted and obedient to God Almighty, I'd think they would have to submit to at least the abundant evidence that God is not interested in our living in this time space dimension with any other construction on it than that THIS IS OUR BOOT CAMP and we have one pass through it which will decide a lot of eternal things.

I suppose mileage can very . . . but Scripture lays some sort of limit out about it all whether we are willing to wrap our minds around it or not.