@glasstrees,
Apparantly reincarnation was part of the Bible up until 334AD constantinople.
Them Romans took it out along with the commandment about not idol worshipping.
Reincarnation has always made sense to me.
More and more so as I get older.
What is so hard to believe about not remembering past lives?
We forget tons of stuff, most of it we cannot be aware of at any one time, it would clutter up our thinking, and focus on 'the now' would be less pristine.
The mind is a multi-dimensional entity. Its infinite.
The body only has 4 dimensions. Finite.
Which is real, and which is the facet?
Accepting that the essence of your being is not your body,
has to be the first step.
As for the Bible,
well, Christ was said to have always existed, 'before Adam, I am'
so his soul is said to have existed before his body,
it then incarnated into physical form,
it then 'gave up the ghost'
and yet returned in a tangible form after this,
I think its only a semantic dogmatist that insists that reincarnation is not in the bible.
Even an atheist should be able to see that christ actually
incarnated "in the story" - even if the atheist does not believe the story - its still flipping incarnation of a distinct soul into a corporeal body that is being claimed.
For two thousand years there have been so many countless witness' to Christ,
and these people have thrived thereafter like no other people in this world have.
The empirical capacity for Christians to out-survive almost all other peoples in quality of life, shows that these people are most apt for survival, even in materialist terms,
just look at the incredible architecture - do you consider all those stunning churches to be designed by people that are 'silly'?
I think that to believe that a 4-dimensional entity is more real than a multi-dimensional entity - thats the silliest idea I have ever heard of.