Rebirth/reincarnation in Christianity

Do you ever leave heaven, go back to earth as something else (Rebirth/reincarnation). after being in heaven for so long?

 

God only knows

 

Everyone who might answer your question has not died yet, so they can't know the answer. Funny how that works, eh? Just gotta wait till you die; you'll know then.

 

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_deat.htm

Conservative Christians believe in only one judgement.

My link also has some info about the length of heaven and/or hell.

Luke 20:27-38 speaks of people as though "living in heaven" though which I guess might be seen as a ressurection or reincarnation of sorts.

 

reincarnation and christianity do not go together. Reincarnation stems from one of the eastern dwelling religions (cant remember which one though im thinking its hinduism but cannot be sure...)

 

Good point. Both Hinduism and Buddhism beleive in Reincarnation, as do a lot of pagan and new age religions. However, there are Gnostics who beleive in Reincarnation. I really think it depends. The Bible never, at least specifically, mentions anything about reincarnation itself.

 

Time, in the Abrahamic faiths, is linear: Creation has one beginning, and we are born into life, and then God gives some kind of salvation so that believers experience an afterlife after death.

Because of that, reincarnation, unfortunately, doesn't fit into the schema of linear time: in Hinduism, (as far as I've learned,) time is much more cyclical and the universe has been created over and over again. Hence, the focus doesn't need to be so much on being givn one salvation.

I think I must have been reincarnated though. Certain tastes of mine (music, food, where I like to live,) has nothing to do with any influence by my parents and I think it came from a "past"life.