If it was found to be true that we have had past lives, would this affect the Catholic Faith?

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When we say new, we mean glorified bodies.

Other belief systems that include reincarnation rarely are human only.
 
The precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ is enough for one life.
 
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And yet special conditions can arise where people outside of the faith can be saved.
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You mean visible Church, I think. Because everyone that is saved is a member of the Church of Christ.

The problem with living again, is that the soul and body are uniquely suited and constitute the person. We will eventually have a resurrected body, which can be called an incarnation, I suppose.
 
I think this reflects the political aspect of a question that in appearances is about our finite, created nature. The dignity of male and female persons is equal, within marriage it may be understood as co-equals. This reflects the difference in aspects of fathers and mothers in light of the rearing of children, both our own and those spiritual sons and daughters. Especially those spiritual sons and daughters of religious who are wedded to Christ.
The concern with dignity of persons arises in presuming our body and soul was not created as a unique and loved person. The community of Christ, and the communion of saints, in that the fullness of the Mystical Body still to be revealed in time is made of individuals formed by God. Individuals who “morph” between beings, forms, or individual character would be alike to a cancer in that One Body. Jesus does not have such a disease in the fullness of creation. Each part is uniquely formed as a composite creature of body and soul, loved once, always and forever by God. Well, allow me to append this by recognizing the Holy Angels as unique parts of the communion of saints without this same composite of body and soul as the nature of angels is different.
 
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Denzinger 128: Chapter 2. “We have always held Augustine a man of holy memory because of his life and also of his services in our communion, nor has even report ever sullied him with unfavorable suspicion. We recall him as having once been a man of such great knowledge that even by my predecessors in the past he was always accounted among the best teachers.” (From Ep. (21) “Apostolici Verba Praecepti” to the bishops of the Gauls, May 15 (?), 431)

One of Augustine’s works is entitled the immortality of the soul. I find it hard to understand, but no suspicion was found in it by the magisterium.
 
Ii does not follow without considering The Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity. Sometimes poorly understood as the “glue” or bond of the Godhead. Better understood perhaps as the river flowing from the mouth of God.
Our unity as composite being is a finite sign of the true unity in God, and in Christ. As the only infinite being God is in no way composite but whole. Still, He revealed to us, His creatures, a nature as three persons in the one, True God. More significant is our union as persons, and especially the first sacrament of the first command, be fruitful and multiply; matrimony.
Our imperfect union of body and soul, as husband and wife, points to the completeness in the source of life. Most previous generations understood this sign of self sacrificial love as obvious and pointing from and to the source of life. This source is love, itself, found only in God. Some cultures view the separateness of male and female outside of capacity of the marital bond. Despite all the egregious wrongs of lust and sinful relations in The Bible this sacred nature of life found in the bonding of persons has always been foundational in judeo-christian life.
I hope I have spoken to your question. As the mystery of God will always remain mystery my weak attempt to identify the sign Jesus spoke to when answering the Pharisees on divorce is the best I can do to reflect in how finite creatures can be an image and likeness of such a great and holy God.
Have I made any sense in answer to your question?
 
I’ve noticed abuses of the “flagging” feature on the new CAF site.

People seem to think that its purpose is to say “I disagree”

There was nothing wrong with what you posted. Obviously if there were, the staff would have removed it by now.

You’re absolutely right. It is not a rational question. Re-incarnation simply does not exist, and any belief in it (or even the possibility of it) is a complete contradiction of our Christian faith. It is a non-question for us.
 
And that is one of the things I struggle with as a Catholic. The Church makes ‘teaching’ out of things which it really has no knowledge. No one knows what happens after death.
 
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And that is one of the things I struggle with as a Catholic. The Church makes ‘teaching’ out of things which it really has no knowledge. No one knows what happens after death.
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Wrong on both points.

Yes, we do know the truth of what is defined as dogma and doctrine.

Yes, we do know that there will be a final Resurrection and we will all receive our original bodies back again.
 
I disagree with you implication whats possible or impossible. If people are not given second lives it is only because God has chosen not to do things in that way. It’s as simple as that. On the other hand is it logically possible for a soul to be migrated to another body. I think it is and i don’t see any necessary conflict, or at least you have not yet presented a conflict that forces me to reject that possibility. I certainly don’t see how it contradicts God’s nature.

Like i said before, the only reason i can see at the moment for God not to give someone a second life is if it in some way undermines the dignity of that person.
 
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“IF”

“IF you are Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

“IF you are the Son of God, come down from that cross.”

The devil is in those “iffy” details.
 
Are you implying that my inquiry into the possibility that someone could be given a second life on earth an act of the devil?

I really don’t think that’s reasonable or fair.
 
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If these dreams are still occuring, I would really reccomend going to your parish priest concerning it.
 
If we’ll have our original body in Heaven, does it mean I will still have scoliosis, and neurofibromatosis (and other things)? My doctor said if I didn’t have scoliosis, I’d be 3 inches taller. Without neurofibromatosis, I wouldn’t be covered in “nerve bumps”. Wouldn’t a glorified body be new, then?
 
Yes but they stopped during Easter 2016. They don’t come and yesterday was a hard day for me when I really missed them. Instead of them I now see in my head a sky that is steely blue and white clouds seem to look at me. And I can pray again. Yesterday I couldn’t I was too sad.
 
A glorified body is not affected by original sin, no diseases.
In this way it is new.
 
"And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment"
Heb 9:27

But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Heb 9

That’s all, folks. 🙂
 
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