After Death

[BhagatBalmik]

As i look at many religion i find that the eastern religions belive in reincarnation and the western religions don't how do we reconsile these two opposite views, should there be agrement on this in all the religons on such a big issue. maybe im missing something. please help.

[PAL 07]

decide which boat your in

[BhagatBalmik]

decide which boat your in

im in Sikhi

Sorry if i offended you by asking a question which i've been thinking of.

this question just puzzles me, but a little information might help.

[MokhamSingh]

Every God's messenger had their own avastha(state of awareness). it is upto the individual to decide which doctrine they wish to follow.

Reincarnation is also believed by all the sanatan Dharam too.

[VanHelsingh]

Some say Jesus also believed in reincarnation (and that he travelled to India during his "Lost Years") but these teachings of his have been covered-up by the Church and his followers over the years.

[Bundha]

Reincarnation was a mainstream belief in Christianity all the way up to 6th century before it was declared a heresy by Roman Emperor Justinian via fifth Council of Constantinople. All early Church fathers (Origen, Jerome, etc) believed in reincarnation. The reasons for its exclusion from faith were purely political.

History records that the early Christian church believed in Reincarnation and of the souls journey back to oneness with God. This all changed by Imperial decree some 500 years after the death of Christ. Emperor Justinian in 545 A.D. was able to apply the full power of Rome and his authority to stop the belief in reincarnation. He forced the ruling cardinals to draft a papal decree stating that anyone who believes that souls come from God and return to God will be punished by death. The actual decree stated:

“If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema. (The Anathemas against Origen), attached to the decrees of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, A.D. 545, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2d ser., 14: 318).”

This passage is aimed straight at the teachings handed down from Yeshua (Jesus) the Christ to his disciples that mankind came from God and was destined to become one with God as he was one with God.

When the Jews tried to stone him for calling himself the son of God, Jesus responded by reminding them that they were all gods. Later, just before Christ was crucified, he revealed in a prayer that he wanted his disciple to become one with God.

Jesus Prays for All Believers

John 17:20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,

21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:

23 I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

A prominent theologian named Origen wrote around 250 AD about the pre-existence of the soul. He taught that the soul’s very source was God and that the soul was travelling back to oneness with God via the lessons learned in multiple lives. He taught that Christ came to show us what we can become. For centuries this was the mainstream view of Christianity but 400 years or so later it became a huge issue and the belief was made illegal because Emperor Constantine believed it was dangerous to the Empire to believe in reincarnation.

[Singh559]

Wow, thanks for that information Bundha veerji.