Reincarnation in the Bible?

John the Baptist is Elijah?

Matthew 11:14-15 And if you are willing to understand what I, mean, he is Elijah, the one the prophets said would come. And if ever you were willing to listen, listen now!

Luke 1:17 And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord

Matthew 17:12 But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they pleased 13 'Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist"

Well, does this suggest reincarnation is Biblical? Your thoughts?

That's what it sounds like to me, you're going to get a bunch of Christians telling you that it's a metaphor though. They won't be able to tell you what the metaphor is though.

reincarnation was christian doctrine for the first few centuries I believe...

I could be wrong
from my blog:
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“As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.” —Walt Whitman

“It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body… then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing.” —Origen

“`But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.’ Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.” —Matthew 17:12, 13)

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Whole sections of the New Testament have been doctored by the ideological thought police, namely the church patriarchy, a quick look at the brutal hands the bible has been through should be enough to indicate the strong possibility that it has been tampered with. Reincarnation is implicit all through the new testament, references may be read in and read out just as quickly depending on the honesty of the reader . One of the reasons reincarnation has been almost entirely extracted from the new testament is because it disempowers the church hierarchy, the doctrinal police. Jesus showed that every individual is in control of their own spiritual destiny and that priestly intervention was not only not necessary but utterly worthless. Although the bible is a flawed documents there is still enough unadulterated information to give the sincere reader a picture of what jesus really meant, fortunately the translators did not understand all of what they were translating so felt no need to make it conform completely to their preconceived ideology, perhaps more fortunate is the fact that a lot of what jesus said cannot be grasped purely intellectually, a lot information is presented literally and the meaning is self evident however most of the true substance can only be understood intuitively , after much meditation , words are a poor medium of explanation of abstract spiritual concepts . Anthropomorphic premises are valid only up to a certain level of understanding, whence logic and intellect cease to be adequate tools of understanding .The nature and quality of spiritual existence cannot be explained from a purely physical perspective, consequently we are left what has become a confused and ambiguous doctrine.
MELCHIZEDEK
1. Genesis 14:18 And melchisedek king of Salem [possibly Jerusalem] brought forth bread and wine, and he was high priest of the most high god.
2. Psalm 110:4The lord has sworn and will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
3. Hebrews 5; 6 As he saith in another place, thou art priest for ever after the order of melchizedek, crying and tears unto him that was able to save from death, and was heard in that he feared.
4. 5:8Though he were a son he learned obedience by the things he suffered.
5. 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obeyed.
6. 5:10 Called of god an high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
7. 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are hard of hearing.
8. 6:20Whither the forerunner is for us entered even Jesus, made a high priest fore ever after the order of Melchizedek.
9. 7:2 To whom Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being by interpretation “ KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS “ and after that also king of salem, which is “KING OF PEACE.”
10. 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually.
11. 7:12For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change of the law.
12. 7:15And it is far more evident, for the similitude of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest.
13. 7:22By so much was Jesus made a surety of better testament.
14. 7:23And they were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death.
15. 7:24But this man, because he continueth forever, hath unchangeable priesthood. RESURRECTION
16. HEBREWS 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
17. ROMANS6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death , we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection
18. LUKE 14:13 But thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
19. 14:14 And thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee for thou shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
20. 20:27 Then came to him certain Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection. ADAM
21. ROMANS 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of adams transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
22. 5; 19 For by one mans disobedience many where made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
23. LUKE13: 38, Which was the son of enos, which was the son Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the Son of God.
24. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:45 And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
25. REELATION 1; 11 Saying I am the alpha and omega, the first and last.
26. 1; 18 I am the alpha and omega the beginning and the ending, saith the lord, which is, which was, and which is to come, the almighty.
27. 3; 14 These things says the amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation god.
REFERENCE VERSES
28. ZECHARIAH 3:8Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee, for they are men wondered at, for behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.
29. 6:11Then take silver and gold and make crowns and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of josedech, the priest.
30. 6:12And speak unto him, saying, behold the man whose name is the BRANCH, and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the lord.
31. 6:13Even he shall build the temple of the lord, and he shall bear the glory, and the council of peace shall be between them both.
32. ROMANS 5:14 Nevertheless death reign from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
33. 5:19 For as mans disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
34. 1CORINTHIANS 15; 22For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all shall be made alive.
35. 1CORINTHIANS 15:45 And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 36. 2 CORINTHIANS 5; 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are home in the body, we are absent from the lord. 37. 5:7 We are confident, I say and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the lord.
38. JOHN 8:56 Your father abrahm rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.
39. 8:57 Then the Jews say unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen abraham? 40. 8:58Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.
41. LUKE 21:32 Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
42. 21:22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things that are written may be fulfilled. (Extract from BIBLICAL EVIDENCE OF REINCARNATION
By Gary, Oblate of O:N:E)


Reflections for March 30, 2007 : Eternal Life « Prayers and Reflections

Yes the Bible seems to support reincarnation in many other places as well. I recall I was reading from the Gospel yesterday, and I came to a place where Jesus told a parable of a fig tree that wouldn't bear fruit for three years (lifetimes?), so the farmer told his servant to chop down the fig tree, but the servant said: "Give me another year and I will prune it and give it extra attention, and if it still does not bear fruit, then destroy it."