Isn't return of soul to a body, reincarnation?
Reincarnation is not believed to be true in Abrahamic religions.
Returning the soul on the day of Resurrection is a form of reincarnation philosophically speaking.
Then, how Resurrection of dead, which is return of soul, is a correct understanding of Resurrection in Abrahamic religions?
Doesn’t your question depend on your definition of a “soul”?
And what “resurrection” means in scripture?
If you believe that the soul is a disembodied part of man that survives death, then that idea can lead to all manner of scenarios.....none of which are provable. Very different faiths seem to hold this one idea in common, but no one seems to understand why.
From the Christian perspective, we have to believe what Jews were originally taught about death and resurrection, which was embodied in their scripture, because that was the scripture Jesus used to teach his disciples.
Does the almost universal acceptance of life after death prove that it’s correct?
What do those scriptures tell us?
Starting at the beginning we can see in Genesis what God told Adam about death......which was only to occur as the penalty for disobedience to God’s specific command concerning just one tree in the garden. (Genesis 2:17) Humans did not have a natural cause of death because “the tree of life”, which was also in the garden, was the only means to keep them living forever. (Genesis 3:22-24)
When the humans disobeyed, God barred the way to “the tree of life” and evicted them from their paradise home to eke out an existence on cursed ground. Death would now come by way of aging, sickness and death. The day they ate from that forbidden tree, is the day death entered into their world. Their disconnect from God was immediate.
God told Adam....
“In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”
There is no mention of any afterlife at all. Death simply meant the end of life, and a body returned to the dust of the earth. No invisible, conscious part of man was to go on living.
The Jewish definition of a “soul” was a living breathing creature.....both man and animals were called “souls” in Genesis. But somewhere along the way, the Jews adopted belief in an immortal soul that survived death, (more than likely from the Greeks) but it wasn’t what their scripture taught.
Since animals were never said to have been made in God’s image, everlasting life was not part of their creation. The circle of life was their portion, passing on life to the next generation....but not so man. Only man was offered the opportunity for unending life. It was conditional however, solely dependent on their obedience to their Creator and adherence to his instructions.
Jewish belief in the unconsciousness of death was also recorded by Solomon in Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10...
“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun. . . . .Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.” (ESV)
“Sheol” is the grave. The dead are not conscious in sheol. Even their love has perished.
King David too confirmed it.....
Psalm 146:4...
“When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.” (ESV)
When man breathes his last breath, all his plans for life end....but it doesn’t mean that he has no hope of a restoration of life.....that is called “resurrection” and it simply means God putting breath (spirit) back into a body so that life can be returned to a person....their former life, restored as the person they were when they died. (Like Lazarus, whom Jesus raised.....and whom he said was “sleeping” in John 11:11-14)
So the Bible rules out “reincarnation” (the implantation of a pre-existing, living entity being put into a new born baby) and confirms the possibility of a restoration of our previous life, interrupted by death. What is the point of reincarnation if the person has no recollection of who (or what) they were in a previous life?
God did not design us to die, so the thought of being out of existence goes against all our natural inclinations. We need to go on living because we are not designed to die. The natural remedy for that was to invent an invisible and immortal part of man that continues to exist after death......and it seems like every religion has this belief....except the true one. The truth does not need to service this false belief......when we die, the Bible says we simply return to the earth, as Genesis says. We are given the prospect of returning to life by a resurrection, not by an invisible part of us that had to go somewhere when we died, that is reunited with a new body.....(some of those places where souls are said to go, are imaginative and terrifying to say the least).....but according to the Bible, none of them are necessary. There is no afterlife like that. We simply "sleep" in death awaiting a return to our previous life. Jesus will carry out the assignment. (John 5:28-29)
God’s memory is infinite, (the Bible says he has named every star) so he will have no difficulty restoring all the lives who have been lost due to Adam’s sin. After all, his sin was not our fault.
That is what my study of the scriptures reveals....FWIW.