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Bill asked:

Has anyone ever bothered to document passages in the bible, King James or others, that support the
argument for reincarnation, and if so, where can I find the list of passages?

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I doubt that there could be passages in the Bible supporting the argument for reincarnation. The
concept of reincarnation is alien to Judaeo-Christian biblical and theological ideas and religious
beliefs. Furthermore, the words reincarnation and metempsychosis cannot be found in the
concordances of the Bible I have consulted. (concordance is an alphabetical index of the important
words of the Bible as they occur in context) Regarding mainstream Christianity, personally I have
seen only once a passage friendly to reincarnation. It is in the book "Meditations on Tarot, a Journey
into Christian Hermeticism" (Amty N.Y, Amty House 1972, 1985) written originally in French by the
Roman Catholic spiritual writer Valentin Tomberg (1900-1973, a former Lutheran and former
president of the Estonian Anthroposophic Society). The book has been prefaced laudably by Hans
Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988), a leading Roman Catholic theologian, who died a few days before he
was due to become a cardinal.

Jean Nakos