Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity

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Summary: Validation
Review: ... 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.

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Summary: Validation
Review: ... 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.

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Summary: Reincarnation - The missing link in Christianity
Review: Excellent book. Should have been titled Christianity and Reincarnation...has some very enlightening information about Christianity.

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Summary: Seek and you shall find.
Review: 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.

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Summary: A good historical perspective, but no smoking gun.
Review: 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.

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Summary: Excellent and well documented reading!!!
Review: 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.

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Summary: Excellent and well documented reading!!!
Review: 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.

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Summary: It dispells how re-incarnation was removed from Christianity
Review: 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.