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To: muawiyah
Buddhists and Hindus will tell you his "soul" will simply be manifest in another living being ~ quite possibly a human being, but also possibly a cow, or even an insect.

LOL, uh, no. The idea is that the soul is not the physical body. Reincarnation is not possession. It's the matching of a body with the development of the soul, so as to support the continued approach to God. It is not the takeover of another living being.

Reincarnation also does not avoid Judgement - in fact, the Judgement is what determines the next body/life, up to and including hell, or heaven. Reincarnation also neatly explains why people are born into such tremendously different situations, yet all are subject to the same divine law (meaning obeying that law seems much easier to some than others).

In fact, about the only seriously blocked common Christian theological teaching reincarnation refutes is a permanent hell (since the karma, or balance of good and evil actions, that sends someone to hell will eventually be exhausted). Because to declare hell permanent, means that it is possible for hate to defeat God's love, or for someone to actually experience God and yet not turn away from evil, or for God to give up on someone as hopeless.

Obviously, each of these issues have it's proponants, sceptics, and dismissers.

Well, so much for reincarnation theories.

Actually, reincarnation means we get to discuss theory over and over again until we get it right : )

40 posted on 05/16/2010 5:45:32 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Talisker

As I said thoughts are divided on the matter. BTW, it’s not just that reincarnation let’s us discuss it over and over and over, we get to come down on all sides if this goes on long enough.


53 posted on 05/16/2010 5:50:25 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Talisker
BTW, I used the correct term "manifest" ~ so you might be "manifest" as another being, or possibly even "manifest" as a demon, or, maybe as a "god" ~ (Heaven forfend, eh).

How you get to that point isn't up to me ~ but I do know Hindus and Buddhists discuss the methodologies for doing so ENDLESSLY.

60 posted on 05/16/2010 5:52:20 PM PDT by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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