Bible and reincarnation

Belief in reincarnation is held by many Hindus, Buddhists, and Taoists but such beliefs are held by relatively few Christians, Jews, and Muslims. No mainstream Christian denomination includes reincarnation among their doctrines. The Christian creeds and confession have consistently proclaimed a belief in a single judgement of humanity and in the eschatological hope of the resurrection of the dead. Some small sects, such as the Liberal Catholic Church, do however include the concept of reincarnation.

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Reincarnation - Hindu - Buddhist - Taoist - Christian - Jew - Muslim - Christian - Eschatological - Resurrection of the dead - Sect - Liberal Catholic Church

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Judaism's attitude is broad enough to allow many Jews within Orthodox Judaism to hold "reincarnation" doctrines (see Jewish eschatology) and at the same time it does not emphasize these difficult notions. Judaism does not totally deny it but does not focus on it nor attest to it. It is a central concept within the Kabbalah though.

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Judaism - Jew - Orthodox Judaism - Jewish eschatology - Kabbalah

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Most of modern Abrahamic religions, however, reject belief in reincarnation, sometimes even viewing it as heresy.

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Abrahamic - Reincarnation - Heresy

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Some, however, have long questioned or rejected this exclusion, and in modern, western Christendom, a few churches and denominations have first begun to explore this issue - both from a philosophy of inclusion and integration with Eastern philosophy, as well as a struggle to return to alleged teachings of the original, pre-Roman church.

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Western - Christendom - Church - Denomination - Philosophy - Eastern philosophy - Roman

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