What is the Orthodox Stance on Reincarnation & Karma? | Greek Orthodoxy 101 

I would love to be part of the orthodox church, but they would never accept me because of the reincarnation topic. I have studied it deeply and have prayed and seen so much evidence for it so I cannot deny what I know. So this means anathema.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but Scripture does say that before He formed me, He knew me, so I don't see how it's unorthodox to believe that we existed in the mind of God before we were given form.

Dealing with suffering, Ezekiel 34 addresses it very well. God's people hungry, handicapped, etc. pushed to the side, while others live well. It's something to consider.

I’ve been thinking about this. Thank you for doing this video. It brought clarity.

We find Grace in the midst of our suffering. We must take on the sufferings of Christ by denying self and in that process we become aware of God in us and us in Him. Suffering is the path to acquiring the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Thank you Father, as always you bring the truth to us so simply. Glory to Jesus Christ!!

I always thought re-incarnation was one soul and many different physical forms until you reach the state of Nirvana perfection. The Orthodox Christians believe as I understand it, one soul, one body that will be re-united at the time of resurrection. That's what happened to Jesus.

The kingdom of heaven is within each and everyone of us.

Jesus already explained everything in the revelation given through Maria Valtorta, "The gospel as revealed to me". He explains how the soul is created, and why the reincarnation doesn't exist. You can also find how it was possible that the conception of Virgin Mary be Immaculate, a truth that the Orthodox Church doesn't accept yet, and you can find many many other explanations for so many subjects....

Job 1:21: "Naked I left my mother's womb and naked I shall return there." How exactly does a man return to his mother's womb naked without reincarnation?

Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you"

The greatest crime of Christianity was the systematic removal of the teachings in REINCARNATION by Pope Vigilius on the orders of Emperor Justinian I approximately in year 540. Credit to Saint Catherine of Siena for revisiting this natural spiritual law, the Dialogue she spoke in trance.

Jewish kabbalah tradition says Noah was reincarnated to Moses because when God said he was going to destroy the people he did not fight for his own generation. So they believe he reincarnated to Moses, and when God wanted to destroy the people of Israel for builting the golden calf, Moses said “erase me from your books” which form the words "waters of Noah" in Hebrew

Pew research poll: Are you a Christian? Yes Do you go to church? No Do you repent of your sins? No Do you read the Bible? No Do you believe in reincarnation? Yes

"You reap what you sow" is a straightforward expression of the law of karma. Denying this is divisive and will not help to bring those of other faiths to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, who paid our karmic debt through His work on the cross.

Original sin is karma, if we are all descended from only two people then that is essentially reincarnation as we are just incarnations of Adam and Eve, in my opinion. We all share the same blood.

Why is theosis and the exchange of energy in creation and repose not considered as parallels? From God, to God, the person must ascend. Is this parallel overlooked because of missing details that render God impersonal?

Give me a pizza with pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms, but hold the cheese.

Always, when I hear the concepts behind other religions from those who are dedicated to a different religion there is always a shallow understanding of the foreign religion. The same is true here. Although I appreciate the attempt at explaining the beliefs of others in comparison to define your particular interpretation of writings, it isn't accurate. I truly believe there is not a way to understand this until you try on the belief system by living it. THEN and only then can you understand from the heart and soul.

The Bible doesn't mention the existence of RU-vid either

I hear Christ and Peter used Greek mythological terms like hades and tartorus. Is it improper to use the term "karma" in our time? Because it's hard to work around that word with secular people but yeah I've been trying to ditch that word mid sentence and with my background and seldom potential listeners, it seems impossible to refrain from that word. Secular people around me are so illiterate they won't hear 'reap what what you sow' they'll retort "wait wait up, you raped and it's like so?" 🤦🏻‍♂️

I don't know why you only deal with a comparison of Buddhism, which is just a negating, ultimately nihilistic worldview. I wish you would specifically compare and contrast Orthodox Christianity and Sanāthana Dharma instead, specifically Vedanta.

Interesting. I believe in reincarnation.

please keep it simple...

Till when will you deal with the suffering....till eternity

Father, you handled the teaching on reincarnation well. You also nobly handled the intersection of Buddhist and Orthodox Christian (also applies to other branches of Christianity) with love. However, you did not address karma at all. Karma is a Sanskrit word, a noun, deriving from the Sanskrit verb which translates into English as "to act". The Christian teaching: "Do not be deceived. G-d cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows" (Galatians 6: 7-8), is a clear articulation of karma. Isaac Newton's Third Law of Physics: "For every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction," is another clear articulation of the Law of Karma, for the Law of Karma is that there is necessarily a consequence to our actions, for each and every action this is necessarily so. Indeed, karma is a universal law applicable on various levels of existence. In this video, I observe that you did not point out this convergence of Buddhist and Christian doctrines. Or would you demonstrate otherwise or alternately? In other words, that this is not true, that we do not "reap what we sow". Finally, "reincarnation", or metempsychosis, the Greek word, "the transmigration of souls", actually does NOT apply to Buddhism. There is no reincarnation in Buddhist teaching at all. The teaching in Buddhism is rebirth, not reincarnation, which are quite separate as well as different teachings. Reincarnation does apply to Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism. I invite you to reply and will look very much forward to hearing back from you.

I think it’s true.

I could say a lot, but will just say this, and if you contemplate it, you will see that it is solid knowledge: the spirit is zero dimensional, outside of spacetime, it is our presence, the sense of 'am here', and all creatures with a nervous system have one. Consciousness is a bidirectional field of the nervous system. It must capture a spirit at birth or it dies, stillbirth. The spirit is comprised of 1) awareness, which reads consciousness, 2) conscience, which signals OK, not-OK, and 3) a power of intent which optionally writes consciousness to initiate thought or muscle movement. The spirit reads sensory consciousness by day, and dream consciousness by night. It never ages, gets ill, decays, rests, sleeps or dies. Since it is zero dimensional, it cannot be broken into smaller pieces. It cannot be located anywhere in material, body, or mind. It binds to consciousness due to sensual desires, desire for body+mind. It only separates from consciousness at the death of consciousness, or by the termination of sensual desire. All teachings of all saints are toward the ending of sensual desires/intents. They are the cause of rebirth and suffering. How do I know? I can disconnect my spirit from body+mind, and watch it unbind+rebind to consciousness. If you understand that matter is created from nothing, that there are 6 fundamental particles that equate to nothing (tau, muon, electron, and their anti particles), then you can say that it is true that God created the universe, and man is created in his image. Because the greatest is emptiness, zero dimensionality, and so are we. Now, I don't know more than that, and I am troubled by that. When the spirit disconnects from consciousness, there is only emptiness, and our presence. I theorize that promised grandeur of eternity may be found in negative dimensions.

Jesus said that Elijah had already come again (the second time) before he (Jesus) came, and that the people did not recognize him. Is this not the concept of reincarnation that Jesus mentioned ? Since this idea is expressed by Jesus in both Matthew and Mark. Then in John, we read that that John the Baptist denies being the Prophet Elijah. Now who is lying ? What's the truth ?

1.Buddhism is about no violence or compassion, love is not tacken for the ultimate. 2.Buddhism is not about elimination of stuffing but about transcending the limitations of the ignorance and understanding that suffering it’s an consequence of that, must not be understood suffer by pain. 3. Must also be told that the Tibetan Buddhism is not the same as the spiritual path that Siddharta transmitted through his teachings. 4. Also is not an atheist religion but a non theistic one. It’s just not the religion that wants to enter in my God is The God, a non violence path based must be as such. 5.It’s an inward path to the Divine and that is the same as in orthodox religion, that the mundane intellect can not grasp the infinite that must be experienced by one and also it’s specifically said that without Grace can not be!

En el cristianismo se distingue la persona de Elías y la de Juan el Bautista, Jesús hizo esta distinción en Mateo 17,1-13 y Marcos 9. 2-13. Con la llegada de Jesús se inicia lo que conocemos como el Reino de Dios, pero aun no vemos que todo se haya restaurado, sin embargo, con la proclamación del evangelio ya ha iniciado. Los discípulos como Jesús reconocieron a Elías y no lo confundieron con Juan el Bautista, sin embargo, el hecho que Jesús estuviera presente ya calificaba a Juan el Bautista como un precursor del Cristo, (y en este sentido cumplió con los profetas) pues el anuncio de Juan el Bautista, se asemejaba al que realizaría Elías según la profecía del profeta Malaquías, 3, 2. El retorno de Cristo que espera todo creyente, aclarará todas las cosas, . aun no se ha manifestado todo lo hemos de ser, pero sabemos que cuando el se manifieste seremos semejantes a el. 1 epístola del Apóstol Juan 3.2

Berean Literal Bible And inasmuch as it is apportioned to men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Father, you have a faulty understanding of Eastern philosophy and Buddhism.

Transmigration of a soul... familiar spirit afflicting later generations with its fondness for its former victims.

There is a church father that holds it ! It’s name is Origen

Yeah, reincarnation is real, for some people. The spirit reincarnates, but not the soul. Some people are a spirit attached to a soul. Those people, after death, go through purgatory, where most of the soul is stripped away. Their spirit continues on, upwards, and incorporates the portion of the soul which was "saved" or purified, during earthly life. Later, after about a thousand years, the spirit will go back down and reincarnate with a new soul. It forms it's new soul on the way down, in accordance with its karma. Some people only have a soul, no spirit. They are "NPCs" in modern parlance. Those souls dissolve after death and are reabsorbed into the "soul" of God. Call it the world-soul. They are a one time deal.

Reincarceration?

The soul of Adam was a single soul for all of humanity, being both the singular and the plural as in the image of Elohim. When humanity ate of the fruit of knowledge, that single soul was splintered into individual souls which were trapped in individual fleshly bodies which then faced the inevitable suffering and death that came from being separate individuals. These splinters of Adam continue to incarnate, which is why we are said to have inherited Adam's sin - because we ARE Adam. The Jewish wisdom traditions contend that Adam will be made whole again and the curse of the Fall reversed when all of the splinters finish their work. We know as Christians that Jesus is the fulfillment of that redemption and that Christ is the reunification of souls into a singular spirit.

Wrong Elijah reincarnated as John the Baptist

Orthodoxy like Catholicism is based mainly in Plato (heaven and hell and reincarnation) but in Aristotle too, i.e., our souls are created in the womb, therefore there is no pre-existence. Aristotle is the only Greek that claims reincarnation is a lie! Christianity is in fact the bible cleansed by Aristotle! Basically the early church borrowed freely from the Greeks because their bible books had no hell to punish people who misbehaved. After they borrowed hell from the Greeks, the church (Augustine, Jerome, even Calvin ) said 99% of confessed Christians are going to hell . around the merry go bush. Now, no one is going to hell according to the Churches. Well, what is it fellas? Pastors then say that only God knows who is going to hell. How did we go from 99% to zero? I think I will trust God and the common sense of reincarnation, than rely on these silly "Fathers" who flounder about in Greek philosophy of a lack of true biblical knowledge. I have yet to meet a priest who is not a drunk, except at Mount Athos.

Before Christianity we were all Hindus !! Reincarnation and karma has been part of our soul even today. Man made religions cannot understand what gods left us with so they used what was forced on them as right by the constant foreign invaders looking to control population and religion was the best tool. Ever since I read hindu scriptures my eyes opened up and everything made more sense and gave clarity.

Reincarnation was in fact part of the early Christian belief up until a roman emperor made it otherwise. Emperor Justinian in AD 545 had the following anathema decreed. If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema. (The Anathemas against Origen), attached to the decrees of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, A.D. 553, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2d ser., 14: 318). The then pope of the day Pope Vigilius actually did a ‘runner’ and was not present at that council. He was later arrested and imprisoned. There would have followed from such a decree a great book burning as the ‘church’ reorganized itself in obedience. You did not oppose a anathema. Consequences were death or exclusion.