Ironically, it's one of the favorite scriptures of all Christian preachers that tells on their denunciation of reincarnation as a falsehood for the lie it obviously is: and this especially in respect of the sons of God. Christians (and their pastors) have a running love affair with declaring, “the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD;” while the beginning of Job 1:21 seems to escape their attention altogether.
“And [Job] said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither….[ibid.]” Wombs are not tombs. One does not return to the womb of one’s Mother to die, but rather to be reborn, which is to say: reincarnated. It was God who created everything in the beginning, anyway, not the LORD. It was God who gave all the goods and the “very good” in the first chapter of Genesis. The LORD began taking credit for the goods at Genesis 2:4; and taking property when he “took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it [Genesis 2:15].”
It is perhaps true that much of what is recorded in the book of Job is of a questionable nature, inasmuch as “the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right [Job 42:7],” of the things Job’s “miserable comforters” contributed to the forty chapters of the book preceding this statement from the LORD. It is certainly true that the same LORD said, in the final words of the same verse, “my servant Job hath [spoken of me the thing that is right].” Whether or not Job speaks of the LORD in any particular sense when he speaks of reincarnation, Job is the only one commended by the LORD for the words of his mouth in the book of Job.
Saint John the Divine says (in the twelfth verse of the first chapter of his gospel) that, “as many as received him [presumably Jesus of Nazareth], to them gave he power to become the sons of God…” This implies a vacuum, as it were, among the ranks of the sons of God– a void to be filled– regardless of what else it says or doesn't say. The apostle Peter writes of “...the days of Noah… wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water [1 Peter 3:20].” This explicitly implies that Noah, his three sons, and their four wives are not only “saved” by the flood, but the only ones so saved, being the flood's only survivors. What about the rest of us? Were we not involved?
Certainly the text of Genesis 6 - 8 alleges the death of all but those eight souls. Nonetheless, nowhere in the text of Genesis (or any other book in the ‘Holy Bible' canon that I'm aware of) is it stated explicitly that the sons of God all perished forever in the flood– and that simply because their souls perished in the flood. This belief that the sons of God perished forever is implied in explicit language only in the New Testament (as in John 1, above).
However, according to the LORD God, a soul is simply a mud pie inhabited by what He (or Moses) calls “the breath of life [Genesis 2: 7].” Who cares about losing some dirt? There's plenty of it to go around. It doesn't take much dirt to make a soul. Most babies weigh less than ten pounds at birth, and most of that weight is water, not dirt. Perhaps this is why the “ground” of Genesis 3:23 is called dust in Genesis 2:7. It takes what seems like such a small amount of dirt to make a soul, as to make a soul seem like dust in comparison of dirt.
At any rate, Solomon writes of the moment of death: “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it [Ecclesiastes 12:7].” This means that, if God gave you life, the life God gave goes back to God to be done with as God chooses. If your life pleases God (as it should according to Genesis 1:31), why would God not continue to give you to the living creation to be God (in representative form): surrounded by the goodness of God? How else could God be “sanctified” in relation to the creation than to be "all and in all"?
The immaculate conception of Jesus of Nazareth– alleged unequivocally throughout the New Testament canon– coupled with the account of his alleged resurrection, makes tomfoolery of such notions as the belief that reincarnation is a falsehood. Why would the sons of God perish– forever– in a flood, when all they have to do is be reborn (or reincarnated) after the flood for God's creation to continue, in spite of the LORD’s machinations (His curse in Genesis 3:17, for instance)? If the dead can walk out of the tomb as a gollum, why wouldn't the sons of God be reincarnated as Job assumed he would be, according to Job 1:21?
Is not the gospel of Christ– as the apostolic succession represents it– a more fantastical belief, all in all, than the simpler belief in the general reincarnation of the sons of God (and the triumph over death and the Devil this represents)-- if you have God inside of you? It's the spirit God gave– not the soul the LORD takes credit for– which endures. Who but an idolater desires an eternal soul, anyway: in this world of all places? Why do the prophets keep begging for death throughout the ‘Holy Bible' canon, if rest isn't good? Even Job “cursed his day [Job 3:1],” and wished he'd never been born.
The lie that reincarnation is a false doctrine is a campfire ghost story. God is a Pharisee, not a Sadducee.
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