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Reincarnation: The Missing Link In Christianity

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Life-changing...mind-expanding. This book is easy to read, provides clear illustrations, historical and biblical support. It brings out more meaning to Jesus' words and adds universal and true timeless significance to who and what Christians believe Jesus is.

This book serves to not only talk about reincarnation but also gives insight on how Christianity should not be a rehashing of the early, third-century, church's select canonical elite's thoughts on Christ and God but rather how an individual's relationship between self and Christ/God is very important and should not be subjugated to the worldly authority of religious political powers.

Maybe many of you who are curious about this book are like me when I did not know very much about reincarnation but yet did not reject it totally. The concept began by seeping into my belief system and finally, and fatefully, I came upon a friend's book, scholarly and hard-to-read, on Gnostic Christianity which briefly mentioned that reincarnation was part of early Christians' belief system. I was so intrigued that I sought to ask more questions and then found the title of this very book at amazon.com. It's been two years since I bought this book, and I must say that this book IS IMPORTANT to all Christians who are willing to ask questions and find answers that are not available within mainstream Christianity. After this book, I educated myself further on reincarnation and the beginnings of the Bible and in the process further dissolved my prejudices, arrogance and ignorance. So watch out! This book can very well set you on a profound path of further seeking the meaning of Christ, gaining spiritual enlightenment and renewing your enthusiasm to seek and fulfill your life's purpose in a new light.

I thought this was going to be a dry, scholarly account of historical facts, but found it to be so readable, I had a hard time putting it down. The book gives the most detailed account I have seen of how and why the idea of reincarnation was systematically eradicated from orthodox Christianity. I have been fascinated by this topic since the age of 18 when I read in a footnote to Paramahansa Yogananda's book "Autobiography of a Yogi" that reincarnation was banned as heresy by the early church fathers. The idea that church potentates could have excluded something Jesus possibly taught was outrageous to me. I had to piece the puzzle toghether from many different sources, and I am grateful this book has finally pulled most of them together in one volume. At the same time the book gives a lot of teachings that explain many of the questions I had about reincarnation. I think just about anybody who is somewhat open to the idea of reincarnation, whether Christian or not, would find something of interest in this book. For anyone seriously interested in the topic, there are numerous references to other sources.

I was assigned a research paper for my English class and we were permitted to pick whatever topic we wished. Reincarnation is something that has always fascinated me, and since I am a Christian who believes in reincarnation, I decided to write my paper on reincarnation in early Christianity, the Bible, and its revival in modern society. I needed 15 sources, but this book could stand on its own! Prophet discusses historical justification for reincarnation in Christianity as it relates to Jesus' teachings, the Bible, and the Roman Empire. It discusses the lost years of Jesus, and the possibility of him visiting India, and employing mysticism in his teachings. The practicality of reincarnation as she argues it left me spellbound. I was a believer to begin with, but after reading this, I am even more convinced that reincarnation belongs in Christian theology. Did you know there are approximately 28 MILLION Christians who believe in reincarnation? This is only one of the amazing things you will discover if you read this amazing book! Its food for the mind and it quenches the soul that believes there is more out there than our beloved Christianity is telling us! Trust me, it is amazing!

This is the most interesting and well documented work I have read about the missing link between Reincarnation and Christianity. Besides being informative and entertaining, it also opens your eyes to the history of the manipulation by the Catholic Church, and other Christian denominations, of the true teachings of Christ about life, death and the beyond.

This is not simply an anthology of interesting of past life stories. It is an expose of how the concept and understanding of reincarnation has been withheld from civilization. How the powers that be (namely the Church and State) knowingly have controlled and supressed Truth for millennia. This was done in the ultimate sense: even genocide, to maintain an iron grip on the minds of those who inhabit this planet. Finally, through books like these Reality is beginning to bleed through. When you wake up to your own incarnations, you begin to wonder what kind of memories you are carrying around just below the surface of outer awareness. Are these brought to consciousness through dreams? Nightmares? Deja vu? Meeting someone you feel you've known all your life? Knowing something without knowing how or why you know it?

All our memories, from our first life to this one are stored...guess where? Well, in that other 90% of our brains that we don't use and can't yet access, for a start. But we're getting there, thanks to our persistent searching for this door of self, and Self.

It's a landmark book. And as full of documentation as it is, an easy and flowing read.

I have believed in reincarnation for most of my life and this book and its detailed accounts make it totally clear to me why reincarnation is a missing link and if only more people knew about the concept and would read this account they would see how much more understandable and plausible life would be and how much more added meaning life would hold.This is an indepth account of reincarnation-very little-if any "fluff" involved.Solid reading.

This was an excellent book with excellent information that clarifies a lot on how the teachings on re-encarnation (tought in hinduism, for example) came to be removed from the orginal teachings in early Christianity. Gives a lot of history that on what happened to a faction of early christian mystics that followed the teachings of Christ and how politics got involved in to what you are now tought. A most read for anyone who wants to know.

This is a well written, well documented page turner that I enjoyed very much. The author approaches the subject of the time of Jesus from a completely different slant, and makes a good case that beliefs in reincarnation permeated the population in Jesus' day including some Jewish sects. She certainly convinced me that Jesus was likely to have been surrounded by, and exposed to people who believed in reincarnation. She rightly points out that Jesus never spoke out against it. She spends a lot of time recounting how certain religious sects who taught reincarnation in the 300's were treated by the orthodox church and the Roman Government - tremendous oppression - countless people killed. She circles and circles and circles, but never lands. I personally think Jesus believed in reincarnation because he was a highly enlightened man and reincarnation is the truth. But she never caught him teaching it to anybody, which was disappointing. However, this book is certainly worth reading for nothing else than it's unique historical perspective.

... My biblethumping sisters and I are always debating the issue of reincarnation and this book provided validation for me. Reincarnation just makes sense all around..I have never believed in the "all or nothing christian dogma". ...this book has made me feel so much better about myself and my life.

This book was only effective in forcing me to seek out any other book on the subject. The history she went over I have no problem with. It is everything else that I find quite annoying. She seems to ignore alternatives to how she interperets scripture and what one person says about reincarnation, being born again, life before this current one, etc.
She also ignores concepts, themes, and issues that today may shed light on the subject. She doesn't address or let the readers know of any other authority on the subject, which to me, makes me that much more skeptical of her credibility and ability to write on the topic.
I feel that I am alone in this and that is fine, each book affects each person differently. I guess I was just looking for more, and the author(s) didn't deliver.