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

[Zivic-Bubac]

Yes. I'm Roman Catholic.

I'm Orthodox Christian, church-going, but I have troubles with believing everything in the church I guess church as an institution is sometimes too much for me to digest.

[purplepoet20]

So I forgot to include my view on reincarnation... When we ourselves were just spirits/souls waiting for a body, we wondered until we became attached to someone living, and when it was our turn we took the human form in that persons body. Same for our children there souls attached to us through out our lives and are waiting. Once they attach they are there forever waiting.

I do not believe that one person who has had 3 living children and 4 m/c has 7+ souls waiting... the soul stays with you until it is born to a human form. Like for me having a stillborn many years ago (and 2 early m/c) and then having 2 living children, the spirits/souls just stayed with me until they could be born. Spirits/souls are genderless so no one has only G or B souls around them it is science (genes) that decides the gender and the souls just add the personality.

[purplepoet20]

I'm Orthodox Christian, church-going, but I have troubles with believing everything in the church I guess church as an institution is sometimes too much for me to digest.

Not everyone believes 100% in there church, my Godfather (a Deacon) told me this... It is how you feel about your beliefs. The church is there to help but you take/learn what you want from it. Religion it there to relieve the burdens, stress, or whatever from you and puts in someones elses hands.

We give our lives to God (Gods) just like our children give their lives to us!

[Zivic-Bubac]

Not everyone believes 100% in there church... It is how you feel about your beliefs. The church is there to help but you take/learn what you want from it.

Hmm, that is refreshing point of view I always assumed I have to take the whole package kwim?
But this can work much better I think. Thank you for pointing that out!