Reincarnation vs. Rising Again: What's the problem?
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"Do you believe in reincarnation?"
David asked me, just as I picked up the phone. I hadn't even had time to say hello.
"Why?" I'd learned over the years never to just answer David outright. He always had an ulterior motive in catching someone in the simple answer.
"It's a yes or no question."
"Then I don't know." I smiled, picturing David's impatient frown on his freckled face. "Why are you asking me?"
"Well, you know how some religions say that at the Resurrection everyone will rise again?"
"Isn't that Christianity?" Although I wasn't sure what our stand on the Resurrection was. Maybe I needed to pay attention in church more often.
"Yeah, whatever."
I looked around for the portable phone. I was on the phone at the computer desk, but this sounded like it might take awhile and I needed to at least do the dishes.
"And you know how some people say that everything is true?" David continued.
"Yeah, there's someone at work who just said that." I shuddered at the mere thought of the Queen Bee of the Bakery. Well, technically she said she believed in everything, which might not be the same thing as everything being true.
"But if people have had many lives and therefore many bodies, which body is going to be resurrected?" he asked.
"The most recent?" Where was that portable phone?
"Or the favorite?" David said. "If resurrection is true, can you imagine being in a graveyard as everyone is rising?"
"What if they've been cremated? Will their ashes come back together?"
David gave his quick, sharp laugh. "They'll be dusty for all eternity! Unless they've been dumped in the ocean."
"I'd hate to see any of that." Especially if I have to clean it up.
"Me, too." He paused. "But there's a bigger problem."
AND THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS
What was he going to say? ??? I found the paper with this conversation written on it, but there's a blank line for what the bigger problem might be, and I lost the next page.
David doesn't even remember having the conversation, let alone what he said next.
If any of you can come up with what the bigger problem might be, I'd appreciate your suggestions!
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It's true that both can't be true, and I don't really spend hours wondering about this, but I wish I had written down what David said the bigger problem with the conflict between the two was.
You really do have some very interesting conversations thanks for sharing this one, and no I don't have a clue as to what the bigger problem is.
The other day David and I had an ordinary conversation about how to fix the current budget crisis...come to think of it, maybe his idea would make a great hub. Still, I wish he remembered what the bigger problem was.
Actually I think you already identified the bigger problem-- cleaning it up. Think of the dust, the lint!
VERY interesting! Hmmm. I do not know enough about this "David."
I do have a favorite book about this subject. I list it in my hub titled "Books For Sexy And Tragic Women."
As far as David goes - he is about six feet tall, short dark brown hair, grey eyes, a flat spot on the tip of his nose that his wife says is because he was trying to peek out mom's belly button when he was a fetus, he has a heart murmur, lean build, he has a funny laugh which is between and giggle and a chuckle which I love to hear, he has a serious side, he can get very crabby, and he has a very odd sense of humor. Don't know if that will help anyone figure out what he said! But the further "out there" the better.
I'll look up your hub - always looking for good books to read.
Jaspal says:
4 months ago
The real problem is that if everyone who has died has already been reincarnated, then how could they again be resurrected? You cannot possibly have both reincarnation and resurrection.
In which case everything we have heard is not true ....
Which brings us to the bigger problem: Did someone lie? The one(s) who taught us reincarnation, or the one(s) who preached resurrection?
I hope you're not racking your brain any more on this petty issuelint! :p