with respect Elvis, no true believing Christian could ever consider reincarnation and claim to take Christ seriously at the sametime. Or they are denying the entire point of Jesus Christ, His life, death on the cross and resurrection, which was for EACH individual soul. man was assigned ONCE to live and ONCE to die and then judgement. It is in the bible. If one finds this unacceptable, hard to believe or a load of rubbish, they are free to disgard it.

Again, this is why Christ was so strong and made it very very clear "you are either for me or you are against me". "I am THE way, THE truth and THE life" He did not say "I am A way, A truth and A life". We are free to take Him at His word or walk away. one or the other. That is what a true Christian believes, becuase they take God at His word. If they wish to water it down, put their own twist or swing on it, it becomes invalid. For there really is no middle ground. Otherwise it becomes "smorgus board Christianity", taking a bit of this and a bit of that and throwing a bit of this in and disgarding that, and deciding really I'll take what suits and chuck out the rest. Well for any Christian (true), It's all or nothing and some of it isn't always "feel good" stuff. Did Christ lead an easy suffering free life? No. Did he waltz around in jewels extolling the luxuries of this world? No. He lead his life in simplicity, poverty and humility, only to die a wretched mess on a cross. But the hope is in the ressurection and Christ was trying to tell us that this life, no matter how hopeless and wretched and how much you suffer at the hands of another, look to my ressurection and the life to come. For nothing in this life can compare what God has prepared for those who love Him. That is the hope of a believer!

There are many faiths and they stick to what they believe, and true Christians do the same because the entire point in being a Christian is a personal God (who we believe is the person of Christ) and salvation. And trying to live a good life and imitate Christ (which many of us fail at, me included). It isn't always easy, but it wasn't meant to be easy.

But I hope everybody can respect others faith on here whether it's buddism, Christian, Catholic, or no belief, etc and hope we can get back to the original point of this thread. I apologise for getting caught up in this, but it is very difficult to remain silent sometimes when this is very close to my heart!