Reincarnation – an original Christian doctrine

40 Ecclesiastes 6, 10: “Everything that happens has been determined long ago. Before a man comes into the world, it is already clear what will become of him. And with his creator, who is more powerful than he, he cannot argue about it.” All events have been predetermined based on the lifestyle of the person that set the causes for its present life in a past life. God is not the instigator of negative events. Can this statement be made without prior knowledge of the pre- existence of the soul? John 8, 23: “Jesus answered, ‘you belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world.’” If a new soul were created by God for a freshly procreated body one could not say that it stems from below . The soul of Jesus apparently stems from the heavenly regions (above) whilst those of other human beings stem from the hellish regions (below). John 8, 44: “You are the children of your father, the devil and you want to follow your father’s desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him.” This passage mercilessly exposes the causes for our negative inclinations; the Fall from Grace turned us into the devil’s children and we have to extricate ourselves from his fatal influences; our soul must therefore have existed before this terrestrial life. Ephesians 1, 4-5: “Even before this world was made, he had chosen us to be his through our union with Christ so that we would be holy and without fault before him. Because of his love, God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us sons – this was his pleasure and purpose.” Terminologies like “chosen us before the founding of the world” and “he had already decided” indicate our existence before the creation of the physical world and not at the birth of our present life. The recovery of our kinship with God had been predetermined a long time ago. b) Biblical evidence in regards to the recovery of all things Ecclesiastics 12, 6-7: “The silver chain will snap and the golden lamp will fall and break, the rope at the well will break and the water jar will be shattered. Our bodies will return to the dust of the earth and the breath of life will go back to God, who gave it to us.” With the snapping of the “silver chain” the preacher, an educated sage (ecclesiastic), described the process of the separation of the soul from the body at death and the consequences: The decay of the terrestrial body and the return of the spirit to God, not eternal damnation. Micah 4, 6: “The time is coming” says the Lord “when I will gather together the people I punished, those who have suffered in exile. (Vulgate = down cast)” The dispersed and apostate from God (“down cast”) will be guided back by God. Everything will be returned to as it was . Isiah 49, 15-16: “ The Lord answers: Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you. Jerusalem, I can never forget you! I have written your name on the palms of my hands. Those who will rebuild you are coming soon.” What other meaning could this passage have then the thought that God will not forget even one of his wayward children? This is why he will organise their return by taking the free will decision making rights of his creatures into consideration. John 6, 39-39: “I will never turn away anyone who comes to me, because I have come down from heaven to do not do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And it is the will of him who sent me that I