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By: Paul S Cilwa |
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| A surprising number of religious traditions, including Judeo-Christian, include references to reincarnation. |
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Even traditional Western religions show evidence in favor of reincarnation. For example:
Bible: Old Testament
Malachi 4:5: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord."
Bible, New Testament
Matt. 17:12&13: "I tell you that Elijah has already come and
people did not recognize him…Then the disciples understood
that [Jesus] was talking to them about John the Baptist."
Matt. 11:14: "..and if you are willing to believe their message, John is Elijah,
whose coming was predicted. Listen, then, if you have ears!"
John 3:6: "A person is born physically of Human parents, but he
is born spiritually of the Spirit."
Note: History shows that early Christians generally accepted
the belief in reincarnation until the teachings of
Origen
became unpopular and the belief in reincarnation was banned (see
First Council of Nicaea
325 CE and Second
Council of Constantinople 553 CE).
Qur'an
"Allah hath caused you to grow from the earth, and afterwards He maketh
you return thereto, and He will bring you forth again."
Bhagavad-Gita
2:22: "Even as a person casts off worn-out clothes and puts on
others that are new, so the embodied Self casts off worn-out bodies and enters
into others that are new."
4:5 Krishna: "Many a birth have I passed through, and so have
you. I know them all, but you know them not."
Kabbala
Here we find the concept mentioned in form of the "Gilgul".