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- From: btiffany@pbs.org
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: Reincarnation in Christianity
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.083156.19612@pbs.org>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:31:56 EST
- References: <1992Dec12.172905.13858@prime.mdata.fi>
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- Mikko V. Valjento writes:
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- > Was the teaching of reincarnation part of Christianity ?
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- No. Messiah never spoke of it.
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- In fact, "it is appointed for men to die once, and after this comes judgment."
- (Hebrews 9:27)
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- > Are there any facts to support this ?
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- To support reincarnation? Of course not!
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- Perhaps the definitive teaching on reincarnation was given by Garrison Keilor
- (or at least someone on Prairie Home Companion):
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- REINCARNATION
-
- "What is reincarnation?",
- A cowboy asked his friend.
- "It starts", his old pal told him,
- "When your life comes to it's end.
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- "They wash your neck, and comb your hair,
- And clean your fingernails,
- And put you in a padded box,
- Away from life's travails.
-
- "And then that box goes in a hole
- That they've dug in the ground.
- Reincarnation starts in when
- You're burried beneath that mound.
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- "Them clods melts down, along with the box,
- And you who is inside,
- And that's when you're beginnin'
- On your transformation ride.
-
- "And pretty soon the grass grows up
- And covers up that mound,
- Until one day upon that spot
- A lowly flow'r is found.
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- "And then a horse may wander by
- And graze upon that flow'r
- That once was you, and has now become
- Your vegitative bower.
-
- "Now that flower that the horse done eat,
- 'long with his other feed,
- Makes bone, and fat, and muscle;
- Essential to the steed.
-
- "But there's a part that he can't use
- And so it passes through.
- And then upon the prairie lies
- This thing that once was you.
-
- "Now if I should wander by
- And see this on the ground,
- I'll stop a while and ponder
- At this object that I've found.
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- "And I'll think about reincarnation,
- And life, and death, and such,
- And I'll come away concludin'
- 'You ain't changed all that much!'"
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- :-)
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- A blessed Hannukah to all!
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- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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- /\ And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal
- ____/__\____ life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son
- \ / || \ / has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does
- \/--++--\/ not have the life.
- /\ || /\ -- 1 John 5:11-12
- / \ || / \
- ----\--/---- -- Bruce Tiffany
- \/
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