I am one of the 4 billion people of the world who believes in reincarnation. That I am a soul with a body.
Jesus came here to do just what he did, and we know the story.
If God is real and i am sure in my faith that he is, and Jesus being just as real there is no way that anything could have been taken out of the scriptures unless God wanted them taken out.
Some of the meanings of words have been changed to mean something which suits the professors but this they can legally do on account of words that can have more than one meaning.
I do not believe Jesus taught reincarnation because that was not what he came here to teach.
Jesus said: you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.
Free from what?
Not limited to religion, but free from religion for an example.
Reincarnation is in fact a religion and misses the whole point of the Gospel, which is Jesus himself.
The Gospel of Christ has been turned into a religion but is at times based on the gospel of Jesus.
When some one tells me that the Bible has been changed, my question is what did it say before it was changed?
I have never gotten an answer.
“When some one tells me that the Bible has been changed, my question is what did it say before it was changed?”
The best answer to my understanding is that there wasn’t a Bible until the books and chapters and epistles and letters were collected and selected by popes, emperors and theologians.
It has always amazed me that there is ONE Bible but scores of denominations interpreting it to their satisfaction.
Religions are not some pure theological organizations uninfluenced by politics, culture, paganism, and even warfare. Not to mention reformations challenging orthodoxy.
There have been 8 primary versions of the Bible found throughout history - Greek, Latin, German, English, etc. And 11 different English versions - King James version, etc.
Popes, Emperors and theologians decided upon the chapters to be included in the Bible. They couldn’t even decide on the Trinity until the Council of Nicea.
The Council of Nicea 325 A.D. ( Emperor Constantine and 318 bishops) set the foundations for the Christianity we know today. I doubt very much it was the Christianity practiced by Jesus.
As for whether Jesus taught reincarnation, I find it amusing - especially among the extreme literalists, that the most literal passage in the Bible refuses to be interpreted literally - “Ye Must Be Born Again.”
And then there is the whole matter of the Gnostic Gospels and the other excluded books and writings. I’ve read the Gospel According to Thomas