Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ejprosser@ucdavis.edu (Eric J. Prosser) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Reincarnation Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 03:34:13 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 39 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Mark Sandrock) writes: >oracle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Brian T. Coughlin) writes: > > >Looking at the Bible, one can see that the idea of reincarnation was not >unknnown to the disciples by their question to Jesus: > > "Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born > blind?" (John 9:1-2) > >The response of Jesus to their question was not a refutation of the sense >of the question, but rather an explanation that this was a special case, >and therefore one not anticipated by the disciples in their question. Thus, >Jesus did not speak against reincarnation, nor did He speak in favor of it, >as far as we know. You are right. Jesus never did speak of it. I read through the CONTEXT of this passage and reincarnation has nothing to do with it. >There are also the questions to Jesus (Matt 16:14) and to John the Baptist >(John 1:21) as to whether each was the reincarnation of the Prophet Elias.. Read your Bible! 2 Kings 2:11 states that Elisha never experienced death. Again, you are reading into something that has nothing to do with reincarnation. Am I right in saying that in order for reincarnation to happen, you must experience death first? > >Mark Sandrock > Mark, take a look at all of the scripture you pointed out and read it in its complete context. Don't go into it with the mindset that you are going to prove reincarnation, but dig into it to get the entire feeling of it. And don't go reading books written by man first! Read the Bible, maybe the entire book you quoted from, and find out what Jesus was really talking about. I think you may come out seeing things clearer. My opinions have nothing to do with the University!