Why Christianity Deleted And Banned Reincarnation From the Bible?

A survey by Pew Research in 2009 yielded surprising results, 24% of American Christians believe in reincarnation. Yet, the concept of reincarnation goes against orthodox church doctrine. In 1978, Geddes McGregor argued this should not be the case. He claimed that early Christians did believe in reincarnation. Moreover, McGregor says, all written evidence for reincarnation in early Christian teachings and in the Bible, was deliberately suppressed by the Catholic Church. Reincarnation is the transmigration of the soul, when biological death occurs, souls are reborn into another body of an animal or person. There are different views on how and why this occurs, but in most religions, reincarnation has a purpose. Generally speaking, the deeds or misdeeds of a lifetime determine what happens in the next. As Dr. Christopher Bash says, people who have lived badly and made harmful choices encounter all the unpleasant circumstances that mirror back to them. The bad quality of the choices they've made, not out of cruelty, but out of an intention to teach them rebirth, is essentially a lesson through punishment with the form and course of. Each rebirth determined by the balance of your sin and virtue in previous lives. Rebirth continues until the soul achieves perfection and can rejoin the universal of existence. What Christians call heaven. It is a cyclical process and salts can leave the ultimate plane of existence to be reborn in the world. Again, according to Geddes McGregor, early Christian theologian, Origen of Alexandria believed in reincarnation. The Greek scholar wrote over 800 treatise is on almost every aspect of Christianity. He is held up alongside the early saints as one of the church fathers. One of the most important theologians of all time. Yet he was denounced by the church as a heretic because of his teachings, which McGregor says included arguments in favor of reincarnation. But we only know Origen was a heretic because it was noted in the records of the Second Council of Constantinople in A.D. 5.5.3. This is when his heretical writings were destroyed. So we can never know exactly what he said that was so heretical. New Age believers say the church also re-translated the Bible to expunge all evidence for reincarnation, but it did not do a complete job, according to theosophist and Nancy Coker. Several passages from the Bible suggest early Christians believed in reincarnation. Paul's letter to the Galatians chapter 6 verse 7 says a man reaps what he sows in the book of Matthew chapter 26 verse 52. Jesus declares all who draw the sword will die by the sword. In the book of John chapter 9 verse 2 the disciples challenge a rabbi about a disabled man's misfortune who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind. These verses all agree with theosophist teachings that what goes around comes around in a word comma, which is closely tied to reincarnation more intriguingly. In John chapter 3 verse 3 Jesus announces very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. This explicitly refers to rebirth, and there may even be a direct example of reincarnation in the New Testament. In the figure of John the Baptist in Matthew chapter 11 verse 14 Jesus tells his disciples, if you are willing to accept it. John the Baptist is the Elijah who was to come. He repeats this in Matthew 17 verses 12 to 13 in the book of Luke chapter 1 verse 17 an angel foretells that John the Baptist will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah. To make ready a people prepared for the Lord, Elijah was an Old Testament prophet who was predicted to return as a harbinger of the Messiah Jesus. Historians know that belief in reincarnation was around in Jesus' lifetime. Greek philosophy was the dominant school of thought. In the ancient world, particularly the teachings of Plato, he taught that souls transmigrate from body to body over a span of 10,000 years until they have learned perfection and return to their original state of celestial purity. The souls who do not learn pass into the houses of correction under the earth before he converted to Christianity. Origen was strongly influenced by a Plutonism. However, the church fathers rejected Plato's teachings and the idea of reincarnation in the early second century. Justin Martyr pointed out that Plato argued people are ignorant of their reincarnations because rebirth eradicates memory. In this case, Justin Martyr noted reincarnation cannot be the instructive process. It is supposed to be unless everyone remembers their past lives and therefore their past sins. As Irenaus said in the later second century, souls must of necessity retain a remembrance of those things which have been previously accomplished, that they might fill up those in which they were still deficient and not spend their labor wretchedly in vain. More importantly, Origen himself said the dogma of transmigration is foreign to the church of God and not handed down by the apostles nor anywhere set forth in the scriptures. He also refuted the notion that John the Baptist was the reincarnation of Elijah. He wrote that the angel did not say in the soul of Elijah, in which case the doctrine of transmigration might have some ground. But in the spirit and power of Elijah, the bible was speaking figuratively, not literally. All these arguments against reincarnation were made over three centuries before the second council of Constantinople. Scholars agree that Origen was against reincarnation and that he was probably labeled a heretic because he taught that. Souls exist in heaven come down to earth in human form and pass into the afterlife upon death. This clashes with the church, which teaches that God created man in his image and that each soul enters the world anew. Meanwhile, theologian Ernest Valle says new age arguments misinterpret or misrepresent passages in the bible. Reincarnation goes against the fundamental teachings of Christianity and Christ himself that everything will come to an end. And will be judged at the end by God. Moreover, the central tenet of Christianity is that Christ sacrificed himself on the cross to redeem the sins of humanity. God will forgive our sins and we may enter the kingdom of heaven by accepting Christ, not by working towards a karmic balance of our sins and virtues. These theological arguments are profound and complex and cannot be given full justice. In this short video, Theosophists can cite more examples from the Old Testament that ancient Jews believed in reincarnation. They also say hypnotic regression helps people remember their past lives. On the other hand, the earliest surviving Christian texts, including copies of the bible, show that very few Christians, if any, believed Jesus taught reincarnation. Moreover, in 1978 to get as McGregor admitted, he had no evidence to support his claims. Nevertheless, bear this in mind because it cannot be denied that the church's habit of deleting or forgetting the things that contradict its teachings has created doubt for a long time. And will continue to cast a shadow for millennia to come.