Jesus and Reincarnation
Posted By MSH on February 10, 2010
I’m happy to announce that my article “Did Jesus Allow for Reincarnation? Assessing the Syntax of John 9:3-4” has finally appeared. It is the first article for the new online peer-reviewed Scandinavian Evangelical E-Journal for New Testament Studies. Check it out.
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Cool paper Dr. Heiser. Most of the syntax is beyond me, but the Rabbinic idea that children could have sinned in the womb is fascinating. That alone offers a lot of insight into John 9:3-4. Thanks for the link!
Congratulations on this article being published…as Jeremy Suess said, a lot of that grammar stuff went over my head, but the points you raised were excellent and I’m so glad that it’s now out there for people to review, compare and contrast. Reincarnation indeed!
I recommend highly a film called “Blindsighted” about Tibetan children that climb Mount Everest. This helped them build self esteem, even though they were taught all their life that it was evil deeds in their previous life that caused them to be born or to acquire blindness (and others treated them as bad people).
I also like to point out that the man born blind responds to the Jews’ questioning of him with the assertion EGW EIMI. They don’t stone him, showing the lie that it was Jesus using the words EGW EIMI in reference to himself that provoked the Jews. Of course, Paul also says “By the favor of God EGW EIMI hO EIMI.” Jesus never claimed to be God.
this is the wrong area to ask this but I was wondering if you had done any research on Easter and if Jesus was resurrected on Saturday or Sunday and if the pagan holiday was merged with Easter. If you can help, please do. Thanks for all you do. Praise God.
The best sources on the chronology are Beckwith’s book on ancient calendars and Hoehner’s book, Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ.
Centuries after the events of what we now call Easter, the church of Rome (later to be called Roman Catholic Church) did overlay Christian events with pagan (Roman) events. I really don’t see why that has any importance, personally. The effort wasn’t to be pagan; it was to get pagans to mentally substitute Christian events. Kind of a misguided sort of (pseudo) evangelism in my view.
Thank you so much. so so much
you’re welcome; we try to be useful.