Well in the old testimate...it fits re-incarnation just fine to me. There is an old Egyptian story about a jealous brother, who murders his brother. Then the murdered one is 'risin from the dead'. Sounds like Cain and Able with different names to me. Eqyptians believed in re-incarnation...thats why they preserved thier bodies so well. But its fine to believe what you want. But im entitled to interpret the bible however i want to also...without being judged for it. And you call yourself a Christian? Slow your roll please.
What part? No significant (I know of exactly zero) Jewish sect derived that conclusion. I think you are reading things into texts that claim the opposite.
Ten Refutations of Reincarnation
Christianity rejects reincarnation for ten reasons.
1. It is contradicted by Scripture (Heb 9:27).
2. It is contradicted by orthodox tradition in all churches.
3. It would reduce the Incarnation (referring to Christs incarnation) to a mere appearance, the crucifixion to an accident, and Christ to one among many philosophers or avatars. It would also confuse what Christ did with what creatures do: incarnation with reincarnation.
4. It implies that God made a mistake in designing our souls to live in bodies, that we are really pure spirits in prison or angels in costume.
5. It is contradicted by psychology and common sense, for its view of souls as imprisoned in alien bodies denies the natural psychosomatic unity.
6. It entails a very low view of the body, as a prison, a punishment.
7. It usually blames sin on the body and the bodys power to confuse and darken the mind. This is passing the buck from soul to body, as well as from will to mind, and a confusion of sin with ignorance.
8. The idea that we are reincarnated in order to learn lessons we failed to learn in a past earthly life is contrary to both common sense and basic educational psychology. I cannot learn something if there is no continuity of memory. I can learn from my mistakes only if I remember them. People do not usually remember these past reincarnations.
9. The supposed evidence for reincarnation, rememberings from past lives that come out under hypnosis or past life regression can be explainedif they truly occur at allas mental telepathy from other living beings, from the souls of dead humans in purgatory or hell, or from demons. The real possibility of the latter should make us extremely skittish about opening our souls to past life regressions.
Please Note: While I would agree with the demonic aspect, I do not agree with the idea of purgatory nor can I agree with the idea of the souls of dead humans communicating with living people. The dead are confined, according to Scripture, and cannot reveal themselves. This is suggested in the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16 and by the extreme surprise of the witch of Endor when she saw Samuel who was dead (see 1 Sam. 27:8f). She claimed to be a medium or one who contacts the dead, but when Saul requested that she contact Samuel and when God brought him forth, it startled her and brought great fear. This appeared to be her first experience with the real thing, i.e., with seeing the dead because this is normally not possible. When people do experience such experiences or contact, what they are seeing or experiencing is better identified as demonic.
10. Reincarnation cannot account for itself. Why are our souls imprisoned in bodies? Is it the just punishment for evils we committed in past reincarnations? But why were those past reincarnations necessary? For the same reason. But the beginning of the process that justly imprisoned our souls in bodies in the first placethis must have antedated the series of bodies. How could we have committed evil in the state of perfect, pure, heavenly spirituality? Further, if we sinned in that paradise, it is not paradisical after all. Yet that is the state that reincarnation is supposed to lead us back to after all our embodied yearnings are over.
https://bible.org/question/what-does-bible-say-about-reincarnation
Egyptians did not write the Bible. Not even they believed in actual re-incarnation. Even the pharaoh did not come back to this life. Like most faiths the soul endures but in a different realm in Egyptology.
Do you realize you are potentially wagering everything you have or will have on this idea you have forced into the mouths of authors that never believed it?
