I'm curious to see what people think on Christian Reincarnation. It's a very quiet topic and not one I had even heard of or considered until recently (I am Catholic).
The idea was restated to me by my mom after she read a book on someone who had a death experience (or something along those lines) and related the ideas to me.
Basically, (the version I heard, not all ideas may be in line with this) that after we die we are judged by God and we re-experience our lives through the eyes of other people, how we treated them, whether good or bad, we feel those feelings as if it was being done to us. That is our consequence. The goal is spiritually, to come to be better people by living lives of sin (in a sense; obviously avoid sin, but nobody is perfect and everyone lives sin.. by living in this way we learn to be better spiritually after death?)
This makes more sense to me because the idea of a hell (hell is non-existent in this scenario), a place of eternal punishment(Damnation) for one lifetime of sin is, odd, or even ridiculous in my opinion. Sin affects you in such way that even if you lived a perfect life up until you were dying and committed a mortal sin before receiving reconciliation or last rites, then you are damned.
What purpose does damnation serve?
None. It is strictly punishment.
Whereas, the idea of living the pain(or goodness) you caused through another's lives is more appropriate consequence. It helps us learn spiritually to be better people.
The main idea then, would be to learn from your sin (mistakes, everyone learns from mistakes) and after consequence of judgement, to be physically reborn again to continue spiritual growth. I would assume the cycle would end once spiritual perfection (or near to it) is attained. This also is reflected in Hindu reincarnation, and maybe Buddhist nirvana (though I'm not familiar with nirvana, so I'm grasping at straws there).
I know that this concept is sketchy, and it's quietness does not help, since it is not a loud topic by the church there is no debate and everything here is speculative, by yours truly. Tell me what you think.