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

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Neither may I think it reasonable or fair that you make that assumption. Rather, I am addressing the very nature of hypothetical questions - they do not reflect reality and can be negative. Does not your premise question the faith, or entertain doubts?

That’s all.
 
po18guy said:
Neither may I think it reasonable or fair that you make that assumption. Rather, I am addressing the very nature of hypothetical questions - they do not reflect reality and can be negative. Does not your premise question the faith, or entertain doubts?

That’s all.
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There is nothing wrong with questioning, That’s how we learn.
 
Rhetorical questions: How tall is a spirit? How much sickness and death are there in heaven?

We are missing Catholicism 101 here.
 
Well…to be fair, saying things like The devil is in those “iffy” details. after what i had said isn’t going to help. More likely its going to repel people and not necessarily because there is something wrong with them…
 
how would anyone know if they had a past life? if hypnosis or accurate historical memories?
I ask why is that memory owned as being me? why does it become a possession? There are other possibilities.

I couldn’t go to the foot of the cross, look up at Jesus and say…It’s karma
 
You can only benefit from advice if you are open to it and do not automatically reject it. Why ask and then erect a brick wall?

Doubts, like lustful thoughts, occur from time to time. It is the entertaining of those thoughts that risks entering into the sin of incredulity.

Who would tempt you into losing your beliefs?

He is real, and he wants your soul.

Resist him and he will flee from you. James 4:7

Talk to your confessor.
 
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You can only benefit from advice if you are open to it and do not automatically reject it. Why ask and then erect a brick wall?
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I like constructive criticism. I reject what appears to be a Ad hominem attack.
 
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It would mean that the Catholic Faith is untrue, that Christ was either a liar or a lunatic or both.
 
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And I am pretty sure Mother Angelica meant here, and now. Nothing to do with past lives.
 
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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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It’s a meaningless question.

It’s like asking “what if we were all fish instead of humans, what would that mean?”

God chose to do things ONE way.

And it is logically impossible for souls to move to different bodies. We are human persons made of body and soul. Each one is a single whole. They go together and are not in any way whatsoever interchangeable. No soul can move to another body. It’s logically impossible.

If you want an explanation, I can try to explain.

But please do not presume to say that you know better. You obviously DO NOT. It’s very obvious that you have no idea what you’re writing about, you’re basing your assertions on a combination of ignorance and feelings. Neither of those trumps revealed truth.
 
FrDavid96 said:
But please do not presume to say that you know better. You obviously DO NOT. It’s very obvious that you have no idea what you’re writing about, you’re basing your assertions on a combination of ignorance and feelings. Neither of those trumps revealed truth.
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You are the one making presumptions here.
 
“Logically impossible” only to reconcile with Catholic teaching, most of which is based on faith. It is not logically impossible for millions of Buddhists, Hindus, and others who hold a different view of how we are judged and how our bodies and souls relate.
 
IWantGod said:
If it was found to be true that we have had past lives, would this affect the Catholic Faith?
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In the context of the OP many Catholics simply would not accept whatever evidence or proof of past lives presented as such. Just as many fundamentalists simply do not accept evidence of evolution or old earth geology.
 
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IWantGod said:
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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We can know that what God has revealed is true because He is trustworthy. This is true even in matters where natural reason is indeterminate.

But the very notion of re-incarnation is incoherent. That is because a human person is both a soul and a body, and the two of them are intrinsically linked. Matter is the principle of particularity (thus there can’t be multiple members of an angel species), the notion of two bodies belonging to the same human person is incoherent.
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“Logically impossible” only to reconcile with Catholic teaching, most of which is based on faith. It is not logically impossible for millions of Buddhists, Hindus, and others who hold a different view of how we are judged and how our bodies and souls relate.
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Millions of people believe all sorts of nonsensical things. I’m not sure what the point here is supposed to be.
 
Arkansan said:
Millions of people believe all sorts of nonsensical things. I’m not sure what the point here is supposed to be.
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My point is that it is not logical in the context only of Catholic faith. Beyond that there is no logical obstruction. So “logic” really isn’t what we are after, rather consistency with faith.
 
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