Understanding Reincarnation: Is it a Punishment?

The best one is the one that turns your attention back to God, that inspires you to make the changes you need to make, that lifts you up to a new level of consciousness, encourages you to live more kindly, more patiently, more servicefully, more considerately. It is the one that provides the surest and fastest route to direct personal communion with God. Everyone is There are some interesting possibilities actually. It is not so far fetched. And it definitely doesn’t conflict with any the teachings of Jesus. At first I thought it was far fetched because I had never heard of reincarnation and Christianity together. But I looked into it and it kind of made sense as I started to find more texts discussing the possibility and more Biblical passages which make so much simple sense of seen in terms of reincarnation. So before all the self-proclaimed master scholars of divinity go crazy at the notion, please at least consider these possibilities in terms of Biblical interpretation.

And understanding that reincarnation is not an endless cycle but a cycle determined by a soul’s efforts to return consciously and deliberately to its perfect state, the image of God, makes many of Christ’s teachings far more realistic. Let’s say reincarnation was part of the evolution of the soul, that instead of one life we had numerous lives to come back and try to make sense of it all, get it together, live life to "Be ye therefore perfect." Is it possible, in a single life, to do that? To live perfectly? Not partially, perfectly?

I wonder if anyone reading this thinks they live perfectly, as the Lord directed us to in Matt 5:48? He didn't say, "Do your best to live perfectly, but if you can't make it in one life no problem. At least you tried." No, he d...

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...s I asked, so there is no need for you to go out again into another life. You can stay here with Me, with my name, one with my word.”

The idea that reincarnation is a fun ride back here is completely erroneous. On the contrary, it is more a form of punishment for our sins, because once we DO overcome the trials and temptations of the world, and become perfect as Jesus told us to, we can remain in Paradise, along with Jesus and our Father. We want to work even harder so we don't have to come back. So it is not a lazy excuse to avoid responsibility at al, it is the exact opposite. It is a prod to greater efforts in our spiritual practices precisely so we don't have to return.

I am adding this in the hope of encouraging sound discussion, not arrogant, holier-than-thou comments of how foolish I am. Let’s see if this can be truly considered at least as a possibility.