Winston wrote:But adama, there is reincarnation in the Bible remember? The Bible says john the baptist was the reincarnation of elijah. And that incident where jesus disciples asked him "who sinned that this man was born blind, himself or his parents" implies that the man had a past life.
You forgot your history. Emperor Justinian outlawed reincarnation. Not God. Early Christian theologians like origen said clearly that reincarnation was part of life.
A judgement implies a review of ones life. It doesnt mean theres no reincarnation. You never see the big picture. You try to fit everything into fundamentalism.
Doesn't fundamental just mean the basics? What is the foundation going to be, if it is not built upon the fundamentals? Should we just ignore the basics and go with the fluff and lies, like you want? You better adhere to the fundamentals. Like if you had not learned the fundamentals of the English language, how would you be able to communicate?
The problem is that a large portion of unbelievers are under strong delusions and they have stumbling blocks in the way, because they have refused to accept the Holy Ghost, which interprets all truth for the believers. Therefore these unbelievers are stuck on things that believers can see right away is not truly a problem, if you can believe.
John the Baptist and his prophecy seem to be a stumbling block for those who want to hold to the satanic doctrine of reincarnation. John the Baptist had a similar job to Elijah. That's really all it means.
The disciples were still learning doctrine from Christ. They were asking questions of Him. They weren't stating doctrine. They were asking Him what the truth is. They weren't teaching doctrine. As far as they knew, the punishment for sin is death, with blindness being one form of death (a death of the eyes, vision, darkness, etc). So they wondered, why is the child blind? Certainly they wondered to themselves, somebody must have sinned. They didn't take into account that a baby doesn't have sin yet.
And the whole story was to show that Christ is able to give sight to the blind. It is not a story about reincarnation. Did the child die and become reborn into a new person? Or was he given vision? Where is the reincarnation that you speak of? Cause I did not see that person die and then get reborn as another person. And if that is not in the story, then how do you put it there?
See, they are taking everything from a question, and not from a statement, and they are using that question to infer, without no other real evidence except for whiffs of air, that reincarnation must be real.
Reincarnation is a satanic doctrine meant for two things: 1. To make you think you can live by your own rules; a do what you want philosophy where sin is not by the commandments of God, but rather to pursue after their own will, and 2. To get people to believe that they can have life without Christ and without believing in Him.
Christ is the Creator and the source of life itself. He kept all the commandments of God and therefore conquered the commandments, which means salvation is without works, by faith alone. And then He died for all our sins. So all we must do to gain eternal life is to believe in Him and HIS sacrifice, not on ourselves in any way. All we need to live eternally is faith in Him, not faith in ourselves. Cause if faith in our own works or ourselves could take us to heaven, give us eternal life and rescue us from Sheol, then there would have been no reason for God to manifest Himself in the flesh, to conquer the law for us, and then to die for our sins. Nobody can complete the whole law except for Christ, and that is God's requirement for salvation, to live eternally. Thankfully we have Him.
Reincarnation is the doctrine of demons. Period. Same as witchcraft. Same as feminism. Same as unmarried priests. Same as the worship of dead people.
