Echoes from Reincarnationists:

What Echoes From The Battlefield Doesn't Tell You

Presented by the Christian Reenactors Network

"That's what I always thought, and against this I put the idea that the Devil might be tempting me to do his work by operating through me when I was conceited enough to think God had given me special power....If ever the Devil was going to play a trick on me, this would be it." [emphasis mine]

Edgar Cayce to Thomas Sugrue, There Is A River/The Story of Edgar Cayce (Virginia Beach: Association for Research and Enlightenment, 1973), p.210  [Norman Geisler & J. Yutaka Amano, The Reincarnation Sensation] p.204

"For almost twenty centuries the moral sense of the Western World has been blunted by a theology which teaches the vicarious atonement of sin through Christ, the Son of God...All men and women are sons of God....Christ's giving of his life...is no unique event in history....To build these two statements, therefore--that Christ was the Son of God and that he died for man's salvation--into a dogma, has been the great psychological crime not of Christianity but of some of its theologians. It is a psychological crime because it places responsibility for redemption on something external to the self; it makes salvation dependent on belief in the divinity of another person rather than on self-transformation through belief in one's own intrinsic divinity." [emphasis mine]

Gina Cerminara, Many Mansions (New York: Signet,1950, 1967) p.63 [Gary North, Unholy Spirits] p.218

"When did the knowledge come to Jesus that he was to be the Savior of the World? When he fell, in Eden." (According to later Cayce readings, "Eden" may also be the "lost continent of Atlantis" [emphasis mine]

Edgar Cayce reading 5749-14 [James Bjornstad, Twentieth Century Prophesy] p.123

"The paradox exists in the fact that much of the information which came through the sleeping [prophet] Cayce was extremely alien to the awakened Cayce's manner of thinking--and especially contrary to his fundamentalist Christian background." [emphasis mine]

Jeffrey Furst on Edgar Cayce, Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus (New York: Coward-McCann, Inc: 1969) [James Bjornstad, Twentieth Century Prophesy] p.137

"Neither any single case nor all of the investigated cases together offer anything like a proof of reincarnation."(emphasis mine)

Dr. Ian Stevenson, parapsychologist and reincarnation researcher, "The Explanatory Value of the Idea of Reincarnation", The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, September 1977, p.305 [John Snyder, Reincarnation vs. Resurrection] p.62

"As been indicated by some, ye are part and parcel of a Universal Consciousness, or God. And thus (part) of all is within, the Universal Consciousness, or Universal Awareness: as the stars, the planets, the Sun, and the Moon....For ye are as a corpuscle in the body of God; thus co-creator with Him, in what ye think and in what ye do." [emphasis mine]

Edgar Cayce, Furst, Story of Jesus, p.43 [Gary North, Unholy Spirits] p.208

"There is no destiny but what we ourselves determine. There is no salvation or condemnation except what we ourselves bring about. God places all the powers of the universe at our disposal, and the handle by which we use them to construct our fate has been and is and always shall be our own individual will." [emphasis mine]

E.D. Walker, Reincarnation: A Study of Forgotten Truth (New York: University Books, 1965) p.32 [Geisler/Amano, Reincarnation Sensation] p.96

Showing that reincarnation, as a concept, is devoid of any moral standards or even relativistic morality, we read:

"The therapist should have a metaphysical background too. If she finds a patient murdered his sister in a past life, she has to help him understand that these incidents are just lessons. Just like the child in school who fails, the failure doesn't mean he's good or bad, just that he failed the lesson".

Edith Fiore, quoted in the Long Beach Independent-Press Telegram, 6 June, 1980 [Albrecht, p.103]

"It is owing to this law of spiritual development [the karmic cycle] that mankind will be freed from its false gods and find itself finally--SELF REDEEMED..." [emphasis hers]

Madame Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 2 vols (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1977) 2:420 [Mark Albrecht, Reincarnation:A Christian Appraisal ]p.21

"The God concept is on its way out in the hierarchical sense...Jesus tried to alter this concept...by this he [Jesus] meant that we were all co-creators of the universe". [emphasis mine]

Helen Wambach, while in trance, Reliving Past Lives: The Evidence Under Hypnosis (New York: Harper & Row, 1978) p.55

"I knew that many people in the occult field felt that demonic possession was a danger when people were hypnotized....I was now to enter a bypass [sic]. As ghosts and spirits, seances, strange messages and automatic writing began to appear, I learned far more than I ever anticipated."

Helen Wambach, Reliving Past Lives, pp.41-42 [Mark Albrecht, Reincarnation] p.72

"Calling Jesus the 'Holy thief of Calvary' and inveighing against Christianity, as she often does [Madame Helena Blavatsky writes]:

'How strangely illogical is this doctrine of the Atonement [of Christ]. We propose to discuss it...and show that it has proved one of the most pernicious and demoralizing of doctrines...the cause of three-fourths of the crimes of so-called Christians....But if we step outside the little circle of creed and consider the universe as a whole, balanced by the exquisite adjustment of parts, how all sound logic, how the faintest glimmering of sense revolts against this Vicarious Atonement [of Christ]!'" [emphasis mine]

Helena Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Quoted in C.J. Ducasse, The Belief in a Life After Death (Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1961) p.209 [Mark Albrecht, Reincarnation] pp.122-123

Comments from the Christian Reenactor's Network:

The preceding writings and quotations are but a small sample of the hostile opposition that reincarnationists and parapsychologists have towards historic, orthodox Christian doctrine and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. As Mark Albrecht, former editor of Update on New Religious Movements, and former co-director of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkely, California to cogently states:

"...how diametrically opposed to one another these two world views are at virtually every major point of doctrine. It should be rather obvious now that reincarnation is incompatible with the Biblical view of God and humanity. As Friedrich Gogarten has aptly said, 'Mysticism and historical revelation mutually exclude one another so forcibly that a mixture of them destroys them both'"

Friedrich Gogarten, Die Religiose Entscheidungcht, quoted in Geddes MacGreggor Reincarnation in Christianity (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1978) p.16 [Albrecht, Reincarnation:A Christian Appraisal ] p. 123

Let the reader research carefully the presuppositions and philosophical tenets of reincarnation and of Barbara Lane, beholding the framework upon which Echoes from the Battlefield is draped. It's a matter of spiritual life and death. "For is is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 (The Bible:New International Version, Zondervan)

"For God so loved the world, that he gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life". John 3:16 (The Bible: New International Version, Zondervan)

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