Posted by Ed Viswanathan on May 09, 1998 at 00:05:35:
In Reply to: Reincarnation and the Holy Bible---amazing facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! posted by Ed Viswanathan on May 08, 1998 at 21:14:25:
PLEASE READ MY FIRST POST-------This copyrighted article of mine is an eye-opener----I have done a lot of research before writing this article
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11----Until 553 A.D. the Christian church has dealt with the concept of reincarnation----It was the established beliefs of all pagan religions, as well as belief all ancient civilizations------JUSTIN MARTYER [ 100-165 AD] founder of the very first Christian school of Theology was very straight forward about reincarnation, when he wrote in his very popular book DIALOGUE WITH TRYPO, how the sould inhibit a succession of bodies, but they could not remember their previous lives---------------
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12----ORIEGEN the early Christian theologian and influential Bibilical scholar who articulated the reincarnation belief in most authorarative manner, included in his teachings PLATONIC & HINDU METAPHYSICS. His ideas became so controvesial that in the COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE [ 6th century AD ] those were called as anathema---------------
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13----Origen wrote: Is it not more in conformity with the reason, that every soul, for certain mysterious reasons, is introduced into a body, and introduced according to its former actions [ From his CONTRA CELSUM]...----------
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14----Believe it or not ORIGEN's writings is again quoted in the St. Jerome's EPISTLES TO AVITUS written in 410 A.D.
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15----I am not here to conclude that reincarnation is a proven fact--------I am here to write only that more research should be done in the concepts of reincarnation------I had seen many articles in Christian magazines calling reincarnation with words like SATANIC and SUPERSTITION-----That kind of judgement is wrong.
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16---------After everything we see in every religion on earth are just belief systems-----We cannot prove or disapprove anyone's belief--------RESURRECTION and REINCARNATION are just beliefs---Nobody can prove or disapprove both of them---Even Jesus Christ's resurrection is part of the belief system----It is not a historically documented fact----
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17-----That is the reason why POPE JOHN PAUL II [ DECEMBER 1990] cautioned Catholics against an overly interpretation oof the Holy Bible and said fundamentalists fail to understand the human elements of the authorship of the Holy Bible----
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18----POPE WROTE-----