Felt called to respond to John Ankerburg’s commentary
today: “An increasing number of people
now believe in some form of reincarnation. The idea that after death we can
return to life once again in a higher form has gained widespread appeal. But
what does the Bible say?”
The Bible is not without reincarnation-friendly
implications, but hey. What does a
rational and scientific worldview say?
In my faith we apprehend a living universe characterized everywhere by
cyclicity -- from waveform and subatomic orbital and spin through celestial
orbits and the tides and seasons they mediate and, between these, our worlds of
life featuring breath, pulse, brainwaves, cellular division, reproductive
cycles, sleep and hibernation, the opening and closing of flowers, all this on
and on ad infinitum. If there is a word
the vibrant universe shouts, it is "again." Of all known phenomena, it is difficult to
cite anything that happens but once; indeed, the mind-boggling multiplicity and
abundance of stars, to say nothing of atoms, suggests a style and general rule
consistent with reincarnation. One can't
fault a prescientific desert people for having a narrower point of view, since
they had no idea of the vastness, nor of the nature of the cosmos.
SGTex
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