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Who believes in Reincarnation?
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All
the ancient peoples of the world believed in the reality of reincarnation
and a majority in his world still does. Buddhists, Hindus, Druids,
Celts, Britons, Gallics, Platonists, Pythagoreans, many Gnostic
Christians, are only some of the people that hold to this doctrine.
Add the Inca and Maya civilizations, the old Egyptians, the Roman
poets Vergil, Lucretius, Horatio, the Stoics, and the list is
still not completed! Also the Jewish Sohar, the famous Kabbalistic
book, contains references to reincarnation.
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| It is also said that the bible contained references
to reincarnation until the 5th century AD. |
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Biblical references to reincarnation that remain:
Matthew 11,14 and 17,12-13, --
concerning the identity of John the Baptist
John 9,2, -- "Who sinned, this
man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
John 3,3, -- "No one can see the
kingdom of God unless he is born again"
James 3,6, -- "the wheel of nature"
Galatians 6,7, -- "A man reaps
what he sows"
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| "If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls,
and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it:
let him be anathema [excommunicated]." - Decrees of the Fifth General
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Articles on Reincarnation
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