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23-01-07, 10:29 PM
Shemsi en Tehuti wrote:
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If we assume that reincarnation does occur, then what happens when the death rate in the world is larger than the birth rate?
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It is a question of is there a place to hang out between lives? Look at the population growth over the last 200 years. If the system works on reincarnation where have all those souls been?
What is SHEOL?
The word HELL is not actually in the Bible.
http://www.bibletopics.com/BibleStudy/149.htm
Sheol In ancient Jewish beliefs, the dwelling place of the dead: "the land of gloom and deep darkness" (Job 10:21). It was generally believed that the good and the wicked alike dwell in Sheol. The apocryphal First Book of Enoch, however, describes Sheol as being divide into different regions, where the dead are rewarded or punished according to the lives they led. ("If This Goes On—", Starship Troopers)
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Jesus was Jewish afterall. How often do you hear about Jews believing in reincarnation? Why was the Catholic Church persecuting them for centuries. Everyone is supposed to toe the Catholic line. The Protestants haven't fallen that far from the tree.
Recycled Jews
How much does the Catholic Church say about Melchizedek?
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen042.html
I only learned a few years ago that there is a controversy over who wrote The Epistle to the Hebrews. My encyclopedia Britannica says:
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The lnguage of Hebrews is extremely polished, elegant and cultured Greek, the best in the New Testament.
Hebrews is normally attributed to Paul but the difference from other writings known to be by Paul makes this suspect. Another difference which I haven't seen much mention of is that Melchizedek in named 9 times in Hebrews. There are only 2 others in the entire Bible, Genesis and Psalms, which certainly weren't written by Paul. So why does Paul suddenly go Melchizedek crazy in Hebrews? Maybe someone a lot smarter and more knowledgeable than Paul wrote it and we don't know who.
umbrarchist
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