In Reply to: Interesting Dilemna posted by Carol on August 11, 2004 at 10:28:34:
"I studied the question of reincarnation from a Biblical perspective after leaving The Family and learned some very interesting things about how this belief actually appears in scripture and was expunged from the teachings of the early Church."
Can you tell us more? Do you mean something like this?
http://www.childpastlives.org/dogma.htm
This link deals with commonly used scriptures to support reincarnation, but it's still only what did make it into the scriptures, not what was expunged:
http://www.thenazareneway.com/reincarnation.htm
These give the standard Christian rebuttals for such claims that reincarnation is taught in the bible:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/Reincarnation.html
http://www.comparativereligion.com/reincarnation3.html
http://www.watchman.org/na/new.htm (see section: "Scripture Twisting: Reincarnation")