' I am the lord the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me? Jeremiah

Modern Christians especially those with an evangelical bent recoil from the merest hint that there could be anything to reincarnation. History suggests that up until the time of the emperor Constantine reincarnation was accepted by many adherents of the Christian faith. It seems to have been banned for practical and political reasons. A system that accepts reincarnation jeopardizes the church’s position as the sole arbiter of salvation and of course if you believe in many life times it can cause people to become more casual with their current incarnation and more likely to risk their lives for a belief. It also of course raises the tricky issue of shifts in religious belief between life times. Today it seems that most of the objections voiced by the church seem to be centered around reincarnation being a corner stone to Hindu and some Buddhist beliefs. ' oh if you believe in all that stuff you can't be a Christian ' although exactly why I'm not sure.

In the bible and particularly the New Testament there doesn't seem to be anything that precludes reincarnation indeed in parts of the gospels it seems to be intriguingly ambivalent. Jesus talks about immortality and life after death but that doesn't preclude the possibility of more than one life time. God is God so surely if he wants to send us back into the world again it's entirely within his power to do so. Our current life shows us that God presents and represents various lessons and issues to us .As I've written before if life isn't a series of lessons then surely it's meaningless. Isn't it possible that lives might be used in the same way? Is one life time sufficient for all souls? What about children snatched by death at an early age ? Of course their life and death have an impact on those around them but what about the soul of a four year old child killed in a tsunami isn't there the possibility of another life ?what lessons could they have learned? Could they have been sent into the world purely to serve as a guide for other souls?

One of the strongest empirical lessons that I have learnt from my life is that God doesn't hide his handiwork from us. The truth is always laid out before us. We talk instinctively about ' old' and ' young' souls of people with an instinctive depth and experience that seem to imply lessons already learnt that others have yet to experience. You have friends or meet a stranger for the first time and the flash occurs of times shared before not a first chance meeting but a reunion governed by destiny. God is in the abyss of our souls and surely there must be many paths back to him.