Reincarnation – an original Christian doctrine

4 The following is listed here in regards to the concept of dogmas: “A dogma is strictly speaking understood to be a truth directly revealed by God that is then presented by the Church’s lectureship as something people have to believe. (See: 1. Vatican Council DS 3011) The following instances are part of the concept of a dogma: a) Direct divine revelation. The truth in question must be, either explicitly or inclusively revealed by God, directly contained in the source of revelation, the Holy Scriptures or in the traditions of the Church. b) Its presentation by the Church’s lectureship. This doesn’t just include the announcement of the religious doctrine, but also the commitment to believe the presented truth. It can either take place in an extraordinary fashion through a solemn decision of faith by the pope, through the general council or through the ordinary lectureship of the Church. If a baptised person intentionally rejects or doubts an actual dogma, he or she commits the sin of heresy (CIC 1325 § 2) and 2314 § 1). In contrast to modernism, the Catholic Church emphasis that the content of a dogma is of divine origin, that it expresses the objective truth and that its content is inalterable.” (See Ludwig Ott, see P. 5f.) The following inquiries are designed to reveal the specific obstacles the Christian Church puts up in order to make the acknowledgment of the doctrine of reincarnation impossible to accept. The Christian faith is not to be debased in any way. Its aim is simply: • To expose things from under piles of rubble . • To reintroduce the concealed to awareness. • To make falsehoods easily recognisable. In fact: To help the knowledge about true coherencies to see the light of day. Because: Ignorance ties you up , true knowledge makes you free . One should first and foremost explain how the doctrines of the Christian Church sees people within is religious coherencies. I. The view of the world and human beings by the Christian Churches 1. The origin of man In accordance with a sentence from the religious avowal of Nicaea (325 A. D): “We believe in one God, the almighty Father, the Creator of everything that is visible and invisible…” (DS 125) 11 9 the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) teaches us: We believe and avow that God… “Creator of all visible and invisible things, things of a spiritual and physical nature… created both from nothing, the spiritual and physical, the angelic, the mundane and then the human, ergo assembled spirit and body simultaneously…” (DS 800). According to this dogma: “The soul of the first human being was directly created by God from nothing. In regards to the body, its direct creation by God from organic compounds cannot be asserted with certainty.” (Ludwig Ott, S. 114) 10 9 DS is used in ff. as an abbreviation of Denzinger-Schönmetzer (a.a. O.); the respective numbers mentioned accord with the Church’s dogmatic sentence written there. 10 Ott, is used in ff. as an abbreviation for Ott, Ludwig: see The layout of the Catholic dogmatics; this precise, generally comprehensible work, published in its 10. Edition, offers the basis for the investigation of the Church’s doctrine.