Reincarnation & Christianity?

[MsBell2018]

I've been listening to a podcast about children that present "odd" behaviors or are have reoccurring dreams & the parents feel it may be pieces of memories from a past life. I'm a Christian & my belief system doesn't line up with reincarnation. After hearing these children's stories, how can a 4 year old have knowledge about an exclusive event in a tiny town hundreds of miles away & over 100 years ago & be spot on accurate... makes me wonder now. Thoughts?

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3 mo

It's just a question. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Oliverlogan263]

This is a really interesting topic. As a Christian, I can understand why reincarnation doesn't totally line up with traditional Church teachings. But at the same time, there's a lot we don't fully understand about life, death and the afterlife. Those stories of kids remembering past lives are really mysterious - hard to explain how a little kid could know such specific details from so long ago in some random place!

Personally, I don't think you necessarily have to totally reject one belief or the other. Maybe there are things beyond what any one religion explains fully. The Bible doesn't mention reincarnation directly as far as I know, but it also doesn't say it's impossible. And some Christian thinkers have wondered if Jesus' teachings about being "born again" could be connected somehow. All I'm saying is, it might be okay to keep an open and curious mind. Faith is a journey, right? No need to feel like you have to have everything totally figured out. I'd just keep learning, questioning and following your heart on what makes the most sense to you spiritually. God's pretty big - bigger than any one religion perhaps.

[strateguy632]

good that you are flexible but the ones who know the spiritual world said you "die once" so once dead cannt live nor die again. when said "born again" was the story where they said "can they literally be born again"? so that is not what he meant.

[FenixG45]

I'm spiritual, not religious! I believe there is much in The Universe we do not understand, especially in regards to multiple dimensions, and parallel universes.

[FenixG45]

Thank you for MHG!

[purplepoppy]

Children simply overhear bits and pieces of conversation in infancy which gets stored in the brain. Something such as a key word then brings it to the surface.

We see the same thing in musicians. They think they've created something new but are just recalling an old tune they heard decades ago and end up getting sued.

We know that under hypnosis people remember word for word things they read in a book as a child. The mind never forgets anything.

Once a child has regurgitated a few overheard items it's then fed more by it's parents "do you remember Aunt Ellie.. " and the child builds an imaginary world.

[strateguy632]

probably the kid practiced his "lines" before the "movie".

[Roudyrebel8]

Reincarnation & Christianity are mutually exclusive

[FreyaRed]

It's fabricated.

[Dargil]

Something supernatural.

[jahaims]

A boomer getting tricked yet again lmfao

[MsBell2018]

I'm not a boomer, Sir.