Do you believe in reincarnation? Or is it 1 time you live, 1 time you die?

I was raised atheist, discovered Christianity in my early 20's, got baptized in Orthodox Church and I do believe in God ( maybe not the whole thing in the church) , but there is no doubt about God - Eternal Power & Love & Intelligence.

Just that thing in Christian religion is bugging me - you live only once and that's it, it just doesn't make sense to me.

You know, my DD1 once asked me :'Where was I when you were a little girl mama? I wasn't existing then, right?" And since I love her so much, I immediately answered: " No, you were always existing! You were just waiting to come to us!" and it wasn't til few hours later I realized what I said to her out of LOVE.

I know our human love is nothing compared to God's love and since God loves us, it must mean we were ALWAYS existing in Him ( I believe God doesn't have a gender but is there any other way to write it?) and in eternity.

Reincarnation theory just makes more sense to me....

I have no idea!! I do believe in it somedays...other days I'm not sure how it would work. I have more Pagan beliefs than anything else but Buddhism is very close to what I believe, too. I do believe that my children were waiting to come to me...that there was a "plan" so to speak but not that "The" God made that happen...more like our energies/souls are connected and we all just essentially get recycled, so to speak! LOL I guess it's kinda like reincarnation.... Hmmmm. I was raised by a very spiritual mother and Aetheist father, so I've had a very strange mix of beliefs growing up. I do not like organized religion whatsoever, it's definitely not for me, but I am super in touch with my spiritual side, spirits, past lives, angels, etc:) I love hearing about others beliefs and am constantly changing my own!

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Originally Posted by DoulaMama

I do believe that my children were waiting to come to me...that there was a "plan" so to speak but not that "The" God made that happen...more like our energies/souls are connected

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Cool DM! But I believe it was God's plan and Someone eternally intelligent made our energies and souls in the perfect way that everything is connected.
I believe our core is made of that Eternal Love and Power but we were given that by Somebody who is all that. I like to think about those thing, makes me happy :)

Organized religion sucks most of the time, I mean no offense to anyone, I wanted to become a nun before I met my DH lol! but I guess I was never serious about that, just liked to play with that thought, commiting myself completely to something bigger than me.
Pagan, Idk...it often looks like a basic level to spirituality kwim?

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Originally Posted by Zivic-Bubac

Cool DM! But I believe it was God's plan and Someone eternally intelligent made our energies and souls in the perfect way that everything is connected.
I believe our core is made of that Eternal Love and Power but we were given that by Somebody who is all that. I like to think about those thing, makes me happy :)

Organized religion sucks most of the time, I mean no offense to anyone, I wanted to become a nun before I met my DH lol! but I guess I was never serious about that, just liked to play with that thought, commiting myself completely to something bigger than me.
Pagan, Idk...it often looks like a basic level to spirituality kwim?

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I don't believe in "A" God....I believe there could be many Gods...like Egyptian beliefs:) Pagan is very basic really...which is why I like it so much. I want simplicity in my life! Spirituality doesn't have to confusing...no books to read...you just feel it~
This all coming from a person who totally believes in evolution! LOL I'm all over the map!!

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Originally Posted by DoulaMama

This all coming from a person who totally believes in evolution! LOL I'm all over the map!!

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Ha, ha! :D But there might be no controversy, I think evolution was/is the creation as well, esp from what we've all learned at biology lessons that 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" http://yoursmiles.org/psmile/science/p0317.gif

About God and Gods....I read an excellent book from Thomas Mann "Joseph and His Brothers", it's basically about Old Testimony, but that's not my point here, it has a true part about Egyptian pharaoh ( Akhenaten, he was true person, wasn't made up by a writer or something) and he believed in one God which was revolutionary back then in ancient Egypt.http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...1112801AAlYohE
That part of the book is so beautifully and spiritually written, the way pharaoh came to the conclusion of 1 God, I cried when I read it. ( BTW he had only daughters, 6 of them, his wife was Nefertiti )
I strongly recommend the book, it's beautiful, I would read it again, it it only wasn't that long! LOL!

Interesting! I'm going to check it out! Thank-you ZB!

I believe that we are here in our human forms to learn things that we will need to take with us on the next part of our journey through spiritual exsistance. Sometimes we may come back for whatever reason.

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Originally Posted by Cinss

I believe that we are here in our human forms to learn things that we will need to take with us on the next part of our journey through spiritual exsistance. Sometimes we may come back for whatever reason.

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This is what i believe also.

The apostles creed. That's what I believe.

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Originally Posted by Cinss

I believe that we are here in our human forms to learn things that we will need to take with us on the next part of our journey through spiritual exsistance. Sometimes we may come back for whatever reason.

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This is more or less how I feel. But do you think/believe there is God behind all this?
Do you feel all this magic that surrounds us isn't random but it's a creation?