| Kris Krieger 2008-03-25, 1:26 pm |
| "Don" <one-if-by-land@concord.com> wrote in news:fs8b5j02db9
@news2.newsguy.com:
> "Pat"> wrote
> There is reserection but not reincarnation.
> They are quite different.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> How?
> The body remained, but the essence (spirit) escaped (transcended) to the
> ether (God-Heaven?).
Resurrection is linear - the soul, as I learned it in Catechism at least,
is created when a human being is created (the onset of humanness being a
disputed point), and when theat person's body dies, the soul goes into the
afterlife (heaven, limbo, or hell). The osuld only has once chance to get
it right, so to speak.
Reincarnation is cyclical - the soul, **as I understand it** (so check on
that), sort-of "pre-exists", enters a corporeal entity during gestation,
learns various lessons, and then, when that corporeal being dies, the soul
- depending upon how well the lessons were learned and how the being+soul
behaved (mostly human being, since animals aren't aware of evil and
therefore cannot have an evil intention) - either progresses into a
"higher" form or regresses/descends back into a "lower" form so as to
continue the learning/development process. SO the soul has a lot of
chances to "get it right", in that it keeps going around through the
process until it learns what it needs to learn (to exit the cycle and enter
Nirvana).
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