Zikomakanaki:
Return of the dead shaolin...Who don wash that feem

starbuck:
I don't have any biblical backing but from what I have seen and experience so far, reincarnation is real, the world is really mysterious....


2018 and above really thought me about spiritualism and Co...

four4:
Base on our two major religion perspective (both Christian and Islamic), it is not possible they called it demonic but base on our traditional religions and believe it is possible

four4:
Base on our two major religion perspective (both Christian and Islamic), it is not possible they called it demonic but base on our traditional religions and believe it is possible

JKisOK:
During a Sunday School session in a Christ Apostolic Church at Surulere, Lagos, a matter cropped up about someone who saw her dead father in dreams, giving her instructions on some matter.

Several suggestions were made to explain the phenomenon, with the Pastor dismissing it as demonic because it contradicted Heb 9:27, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment."

The Pastor rather confidently generalised and categorised as evil all stories of departed souls being seen in unfamiliar environments, and the tendency for families to name new babies after a departed relation, in the belief that such were reborn. Can such cases be pinned on demonic body thieves?

Preferring to only listen, I wished I could tell the church that Jide Kosoko, yes, the Nollywood actor, had his maternal lineage enmeshed in such a story. His cousin, my friend, told me. And I am told the man produced a movie on the subject.

Today, a lady, told me of her Dad, a wealthy Igbo businessman, was matchetted to death in ethno-religious riots in Zaria in the 1960s. When the man's pregnant wife delivered, the baby girl bore dark marks all over her body that looked like machete cuts. That baby grew and always told her siblings and mum that she was their father and husband and had returned to continue the assignment of catering for them, which he was prevented from doing by his untimely death.

Can dead people return with repaired bodies? The Bible cites one instance, Matthew 27:52-53, "And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."

Really, do we totally understand this subject of dead people having a second chance at life? Have we exposed everything about the cycle of life?

Abi, did the Bible not say in 1 Corinthians 13:9 "For we know in part..." and " Deuteronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law"?

What are your thoughts? Share factual experiences, please.



PLEASE, CAN YOU HELP PUSH SO WE CAN GET ANSWERS? GOD BLESS YOU GUYS AS ALWAYS

Rapmoney:
Nice topic.

To me, I think death puts an end to the life of humans and animals as well. When a person dies, that's the end of it all. I don't believe in reincarnation.

I wonder why humans have so many beliefs where the soul of man goes to or what happens to man after death but has none as regards the end of animals

EASY32:

w97 5/15 p. 5-6
Should You Believe in Reincarnation?

THE Greek philosopher Plato connected falling in love with the idea of reincarnation. He believed that after the death of the body, the soul, being immortal, migrates to what has been called the “realm of the pure forms.” Bodiless, it remains there for some time, contemplating the forms. When it is later reincarnated into another body, the soul subconsciously remembers and yearns for the realm of forms. According to Plato, people fall in love because they see in their beloved the ideal form of beauty they vaguely remember and seek.

Identifying the Source and the Basis

The teaching of reincarnation requires that the soul be immortal. The origin of reincarnation, then, must be traced to those peoples or nations that held such a belief. On this basis, some think that it originated in ancient Egypt. Others hold that it got started in old Babylonia. To create prestige for the Babylonian religion, its priesthood advanced the doctrine of transmigration of the soul. They could thus claim that their religious heroes were reincarnations of notable, though long dead, ancestors.

It was in India, however, that belief in reincarnation came to full bloom. The Hindu sages were grappling with the universal problems of evil and of suffering among humans. ‘How can these be harmonized with the concept of a righteous Creator?’ they asked. They tried to resolve the conflict between God’s righteousness and the unforeseen calamities and inequalities in the world. In time, they devised “the law of karma,” the law of cause and effect—‘whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.’ They worked out a detailed ‘balance sheet’ whereby merits and demerits in one life are rewarded or punished in the next.

“Karma” simply means “action.” A Hindu is said to have good karma if he conforms to social and religious norms and bad karma if he does not. His action, or karma, determines his future in each successive rebirth. “All men are born with a blueprint of character, mainly prepared by their actions in previous lives, though their physical traits are determined by heredity,” says philosopher Nikhilananda. “A man is [thus] an architect of his own fate, the builder of his own destiny.” The ultimate goal, however, is to be liberated from this cycle of transmigration and be united with Brahman—the ultimate reality. This, it is believed, is achieved by striving for socially acceptable behavior and special Hindu knowledge.

The teaching of reincarnation thus uses as its foundation the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and builds on it using the law of karma. Let us see what God’s inspired Word, the Bible, has to say regarding these ideas.

Is the Soul Immortal?

To answer this question, let us turn to the highest authority on the subject—the inspired Word of the Creator. In the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we learn the accurate meaning of “soul.” Regarding the creation of the first man, Adam, the Bible says: “Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) Clearly, the soul is not what a man has but what he is. The Hebrew word used here for soul is neʹphesh. It occurs some 700 times in the Bible, and it never refers to a separate and ethereal part of a human but always to something tangible and physical.—Job 6:7; Psalm 35:13; 107:9; 119:28.

What happens to the soul at death? Consider what happened to Adam at his death. When he sinned, God told him: “You [will] return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) Think of what that means. Before God created him from the dust, Adam did not exist. After his death, Adam returned to the same state of nonexistence.

Simply stated, the Bible teaches that death is the opposite of life. At Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, we read: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going.”

This means that the dead are unable to do or feel anything. They no longer have any thoughts, nor do they remember anything. The psalmist states: “Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs. His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”—Psalm 146:3, 4.

The Bible clearly shows that at death the soul does not move on to another body, but it dies. “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die,” the Bible emphatically states. (Ezekiel 18:4, 20; Acts 3:23; Revelation 16:3) Thus, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul—the very foundation of the theory of reincarnation—does not find any support in the Scriptures. Without it, the theory collapses. What, then, explains the suffering we see in the world?

starbuck:
I don't have any biblical backing but from what I have seen and experience so far, reincarnation is real, the world is really mysterious....


2018 and above really thought me about spiritualism and Co...

starbuck:
I don't have any biblical backing but from what I have seen and experience so far, reincarnation is real, the world is really mysterious....


2018 and above really thought me about spiritualism and Co...

Pavore9:
This issue of reincarnation cannot be intellectualized in the face of some glaring realities.

Dickhead02:
John 5: 28 disagree with this comment

starbuck:
I don't have any biblical backing but from what I have seen and experience so far, reincarnation is real, the world is really mysterious....


2018 and above really thought me about spiritualism and Co...

nairalee:
OP i can't imagine that after death instead of me to be facing my judgment I will now Come back to this god forsaken Nigeria and be eating yam inside one remote village.


Am I mad? Is my spirit mad? I'll rather just commit spiritosuicide. Isit not even better to be gathering your firewood for your bunk in hellfire than to come and face Buhari, Myetti Allah and this Zoogeria?

Rapmoney:
Nice topic.

To me, I think death puts an end to the life of humans and animals as well. When a person dies, that's the end of it all. I don't believe in reincarnation.

I wonder why humans have so many beliefs where the soul of man goes to or what happens to man after death but has none as regards the end of animals

chimhigher:
There are many strange things that happen in this life we live in.Personally my roommate had a similar experience with his uncle..During the holiday when he was at home,his uncle came back a bit late(cos he traveled to come and see them).When he came he acted a bit sad and cold but everyone just felt like maybe it was cos of the long journey..Early in the morning he took his things and said something just came up and he promised to come back the following weak and some hours after he left,News reached them that he is dead and he died in an accident,THE SCARY PART WAS THAT IT WAS THE PREVIOUS NIGHT HE DIED IN THE ACCIDENT.his spirit or whatever came after the had died

EASY32:


Without it, the theory collapses. @1

What, then, explains the suffering we see in the world? @2

AngryNijerian:
The day my uncle died my brother saw him walking down Onitsha/Asaba express way with a straight face and in a haste as if he was going for something very important. He bothered not to call and greet him because that would be wasting his time but immediately he got home he got a call that the man just died.

So many cases of such have been experienced by many people. A girl that works in a hotel traveled to another State but on coming back their bus had a fatal accident which everyone died but she still managed to return to the hotel she works. She stayed their for days before words start spreading that she's involved in that accident, she got the wind of what's happening and hurriedly told her colleagues that she wants go to the bathroom and take her bath.

As she left for the bathroom someone came in and break the news of her death and her colleagues were shocked telling the person that she just entered the bathroom and will soon come out. They waited for her several hours but she didn't show up, they decided to go to the bathroom and search for her. They entered the bathroom and saw just her towel and bucket filled with water. Till today that girl never showed up there again

There are many living among us that have died before, they full Nairaland self

Graduateacher:
I think this is a very good topic. Reading act 2, we see that God had promised Christ that He won't allow His body to rot in the grave so He rose Him up on the 3rd day His body didn't rot because he was embalmed. But why did Christ care if His body will rot in the grave or not, after all, his spirit and soul were now free and they are immortal? perhaps there's an attachment of all three, body, soul and spirit, they all like to be in the same place? when Christ died Matt 27, the word states that the saints who were resting rose again, entered the towns and people saw them. Did they rise up with rotten bodies? no way, their bodies were not rotten because people would be terrified of them, how come it wasn't if they had been there for a while? perhaps the ones who were still fresh? only God knows