Reincarnation and Christianity
Overview
Does the Christian Church have an answer to the theory of reincarnation, or should the Church lay aside its scriptural foundations and accept it? What about Edgar Cayce, Jeane Dixon, and all the other so-called "Christian" reincarnationists? Can the Church defend its beliefs? Why has biblical Christianity been opposed to the theory of reincarnation? How and why did Christianity triumph over the theory of reincarnation in the first years of its existence?
This study is dedicated to answering these questions in the hope that many will rediscover the superiority of "the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3).
Top Highlights
“A person’s soul, according to this doctrine, is eternal and is part of the ‘world soul’ or ‘ultimate being’ (sometimes called ‘God’).” (Page 12)
“In the world in which Christianity arose, most of the first-century Greek mystery religions, such as Gnosticism, held to various theories of Karmic transmigration. Christianity eventually displaced Karmic transmigration with its doctrine of Christ’s substitutionary atonement in which He paid all of our ‘Karmic debt’ through His own suffering.” (Page 12)
“Since liberalism and neoorthodoxy have fostered the secularization of Christianity in the mainline Protestant denominations, more nominal Christians will be drawn into the occult. Liberal theology creates the vacuum which the occult fills.” (Page 13)
“The Apostle John writes in 1 John 4:1, ‘Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.’ He then gives two tests by which we can discern the teachings of Antichrist.” (Page 26)
“Too often reincarnationists dogmatically assert that the theory of reincarnation was the original faith of Jews, Christians, and Essenes. But the historical evidence stands against such dogmaticism.” (Page 33)
- Title: Reincarnation and Christianity
- Author: Robert A. Morey
- Publisher: Faith Defenders
- Publication Date: 1980
- Pages: 60
Robert A. Morey was an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of comparative religions, the cults, and the occult as well as on Islam. He is the author of over 40 books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Swedish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Turkish and Farsi. Morey also ran Faith Defenders and was the founder of California Biblical University and Seminary.
