That is a pretty DEEP theory on reincarnation. You either graduate and go to Heaven or you are given a do over to hopefully get it moraly right. I wonder how many chances you get. Does the world eventually become full of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, incarnations that just do not have the soul to get it right and graduate?
According to one Rabbi I heard (many Jews don't even know there's a concept of reincarnation in Judaism) every single one of us are new incarnations of souls that screwed up. We're no longer in "this is your first rodeo" territory.
I grew up in a Reform synagogue. What we were told was: "Jews believe when you die you go six feet underground. That's it." Or something a little more interesting: "Judaism has nothing to say about afterlife because that Egyptians were obsessed with afterlife, building tombs instead of palaces, practically worshipping death. So Judaism is a religion of life." Maybe that's true.
But I found some orthodox Chabad Rabbis online who give a lot of info on afterlife. Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation, Ghosts, the whole nine yards. A lot of sophistication.
No way. Christianity has always been quite clear that there is for each of us one death, and after that the judgement, and then eternity of reaping the consequences of our decisions, in heaven or hell. What redo's we get are all in this one life, not endlessly, later.
Anything that lessens one's sense of the uniqueness of each human person, and their irreplaceable role, loved into being by the Creator for precisely the time they are in, is IMO actually both dangerous and harmful as a worldview.
That is a pretty DEEP theory on reincarnation. You either graduate and go to Heaven or you are given a do over to hopefully get it moraly right. I wonder how many chances you get. Does the world eventually become full of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, incarnations that just do not have the soul to get it right and graduate?
According to one Rabbi I heard (many Jews don't even know there's a concept of reincarnation in Judaism) every single one of us are new incarnations of souls that screwed up. We're no longer in "this is your first rodeo" territory.
I grew up in a Reform synagogue. What we were told was: "Jews believe when you die you go six feet underground. That's it." Or something a little more interesting: "Judaism has nothing to say about afterlife because that Egyptians were obsessed with afterlife, building tombs instead of palaces, practically worshipping death. So Judaism is a religion of life." Maybe that's true.
But I found some orthodox Chabad Rabbis online who give a lot of info on afterlife. Heaven, Hell, Reincarnation, Ghosts, the whole nine yards. A lot of sophistication.
No way. Christianity has always been quite clear that there is for each of us one death, and after that the judgement, and then eternity of reaping the consequences of our decisions, in heaven or hell. What redo's we get are all in this one life, not endlessly, later.
Anything that lessens one's sense of the uniqueness of each human person, and their irreplaceable role, loved into being by the Creator for precisely the time they are in, is IMO actually both dangerous and harmful as a worldview.
Hmmm that would be an interesting creation of hell.