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committed the crime who paid for it with the deformity. He just waited a family generation for justice to prevail.
What he sowed, he reaped.
Another instance of this is in John 9:1-3 in a passage concerning a conversation between Jesus and his disciples: "As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.'"
Now to my way of thinking, how could this man who was blind since birth have sinned before birth? Either Jesus had a belief in reincarnation or reincarnation is truth.
Jesus even answered that neither the man nor his parents had sinned. He didn't say, "Are you stupid? This man wasn't even born yet. How could he sin before birth?"
Instead he answered the disciple's question. If he had not believed in reincarnation, then he would have gone into a dissertation about man only living one physical life. In other words, this was not a Karmic lesson but a lesson to be learned to glorify God and maybe Jesus even had the ulterior motive to make people aware of reincarnation.
In their innocence to learn from the Master, the disciples did not censor their words when asking Jesus about the blind man. To me this lends credence to the fact that the bishops took reincarnation out of the Bible at the First Council of Nicaea but they neglected to kill all verses associated with it.
There is another scripture quoting Jesus which states, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God," John 3:3. According to some Bible scholars, the words "born again," as taken from the Greek manuscripts, literally meant physical rebirth. If physical rebirth is actually true, then are we seeing the manifestation of the kingdom of God, known as Earth, upon birth as that verse implies?
My little dog, Muffin, demonstrated another version of being born again to me when, upon her death, her soul came back as the little black and brown puppy she had been when young. When asked why her spirit appeared in that form, she answered that she had been "born again." Her use of those two words, which were the last expressions that I would have expected at the time, made me take a look at the Biblical words, "born again," in a more educated way. Though she had just died, she returned in spirit in puppy form to let me know that she was indeed still alive.
Death is being born again and so is coming to the physical in the birth process.
In Mark 8:27-29, Jesus asked his disciples who they thought he was. They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets."
With these words, the Disciples of Christ gave credence to reincarnation.
When asked by his disciples why the teachers of the law said that Elijah must come before Him, Jesus replied in Matthew 17:11-13, "To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. But I tell you, Elijah has already come and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands. 'Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.'"
What else can this mean but that reincarnation was a fact to Jesus? He didn't say that there is no such thing but readily admitted that Elijah had already come back and was treated miserably. As Jesus said the people had done to Elijah everything they wished. John the Baptist had his head removed for his beliefs.
For his beliefs, Jesus saw the death coming for him too.
Jesus realized that people don't always know the answer, even when it is placed in front of them. He even said that although people were waiting for Elijah to return, even though he had already done so, people didn't recognize him.
Jesus further admitted reincarnation and the fact that John the Baptist was indeed Elijah when he uttered these words in Matthew 11:13-15. "For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. He who has ears, let him hear."
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