Reincarnation

“There is reincarnation you know. Take this case of a man who claimed to have been from the past. Archaeologists had excavated some buildings but could not make out what repeated notches on the building represented, but this man correctly said they were marks made by spears resting on the wall. How do you explain that?” 

Very simple I’d say: it is just a case of familiar spirits. Demons around in those days simply supplied the answers to the man. Do not go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead Lev 19:31(GNB).  If demons can predict in fortune-telling is it correctly interpreting historic puzzles that they can’t do? As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling Act 16:16(ESV). Do not be carried away.

“So the man was demon possessed, eh?”

Well, demon influenced. 

“But what do you make of children that are born with the very same marks given to babies before them that died? If that isn't reincarnation what is it?” 

A combination of genes, demon-ism, and congenital anomalies my friend. “Conge-what?” 

Oh, abnormalities some people are born with. My friend listen, someone asked me “if there is reincarnation, since it is obvious the population of the world is increasing, where are all the extra souls of people coming from?” though he was not born again sheer reasoning led him to rule it out.

“Rule it out? Doesn’t the Bible itself teach reincarnation? Consider: At that time Herod the tetrarch, hearing about the fame of Jesus, said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and that's why these miracles are at work in him Matt 14:1-2(ISV). If reincarnation were not widely believed why would people say this?”

 My friend you are wrong. Firstly this passage does not teach reincarnation. I thought you were going to show me one. This place speaks of the supposition of a gentile king, one who does not acknowledge the Lord. He does not speak on God’s behalf. It cannot be admitted as fact. Secondly he was supposing John had risen from the dead; not that John having been beheaded, was born by a woman again. No. The Jews do not teach reincarnation; else why would Nicodemus called a Pharisee, a ruler and teacher of the Jews of the strictest sect of their religion ask Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jn 3:4(ESV)? The bible cannot and does not teach reincarnation, instead in Heb 9:27(MKJV) it is clearly stated “And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment”.