Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Mark Sandrock) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Reincarnation and Christianity Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 04:04:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 24 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu emory!dragon!cms@gatech.edu writes: >... For my part, reincarnation >seems illogical on its own merits. After all, once there were >millions of people on earth; now there are billions. Where did all >those extra souls come from? This objection to reincarnation is easily explained once one realizes that the number of human souls incarnated upon the earth at any time is but a small part of the overall number of human souls existing in the "world". For instance, the regions we know of as "hell", and as "purgatory" contain vast numbers of human souls. According to God's Will, souls from the darker regions of the "beyond" should not be able to incarnate on the earth (where they only cause harm), but for a long time now mankind has not lived according to God's Will, hence the terrible judgment described in the Revelation. Regards, Mark Sandrock -- BITNET: sandrock@uiucscs Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Internet: sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu Chemical Sciences Computing Services Voice: 217-244-0561 505 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801