Reincarnation – an original Christian doctrine

41 should not lose any of those he has given me, but that I should raise them all on the last day.” The notion of eternal damnation does not harmonise with the idea that it is God’s will that nothing is lost . People may die, ergo be spiritually dead , but a new life on Earth offers the opportunity of one more chance. John10, 16: “There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them too, they will listen to my voice and they will become one flock with one shepherd.” With this parable Christ expressed the aim of all of creation: There will only be one pen remaining, because Hell will be emptied . Acts 3, 21: “He (Christ) must remain in heaven until the time comes for all things to be made new (Greek: apokatastasis panton), as God announced through his holy prophets of long ago.” Peter proclaimed the aim of creation in this speech, namely the final return to God of all. 1. Corinthians 15, 25-26: “For Christ must rule until God defeats all enemies and puts them under his feet. The last enemy to be defeated will be death.” The last enemy also – not death, but Satan will return to his place before the Fall from Grace. He, God’s antagonist, is the last enemy who returns, because through his arrogance, he became God’s first enemy. 1. Timothy 2, 3-4: “This is good and it pleases God our saviour, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth.” 2. Peter 3, 9: The Lord is not slow to do what he has promised, as some think. Instead he is patient with you, because he does not want anyone destroyed, but wants all to turn away from their sins. This passage summarises God’s will incredibly precise: Nobody may be lost , all will turn around. Just because cause and effect do not immediately follow one another doesn’t mean that God is slow to act, because he is patient. This passage can really only pertain to the soul’s process of development towards its perfection. c) Biblical evidence in regards to the re-embodiment of the soul 2. Maccabees 7, 11: “… and said nobly, “I got these (limbs) from Heaven, and because of his laws I disdain them, and from him I hope to get them back again.” This martyred follower clearly said to his tormentors what re-birth is: He received his limbs (through birth), discards them again (when dying) and hopes to receive them again in heaven. How else can this happen but through physical birth – through re-birth? Psalm 90, 3: “You tell man to return to what he was; you change him back to dust.” Those that died and are supposed to come back can logically speaking only do so in another life with another body . Would a return without a body be possible? Wisdom 2, 5 and 21: “ For our time is a very shadow that passeth away; and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again. (After Vulgate) Such things they did imagine, and were deceived: for their own wickedness hath blinded them.”