I guess I
am wandering a bit off-topic.
But, whilst communicating with the dead seems unlikely, there does seem some biblical evidenc
e suggesting
reincarnation.
"Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord." (Malachi 4:5)
The episode in the Bible where Jesus identified John the Baptist as the reincarnation of Elijah the prophet is one of the clearest statements which Jesus made concerning reincarnation.
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[TD]"For all the prophets and the law have prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who was to come." (Matthew 11:13-14)[/TD]
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In the above passage, Jesus clearly identifies John the Baptist as the reincarnation of Elijah the prophet.
Later in Matthew's gospel Jesus reiterates it.
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[TD]" ... I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him, but did to him whatever they wished."
"Then the disciples understood that he had spoken of John the Baptist." (Matthew 17:10-13)
"But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him." (Mark 9:9-13)
The disciples seem to have believed in pre-existence
"Who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind ?" (John 9:1)
If they thought his blindness was the result of sin - and he was born blind - he would have to have sinned prior
to his birth (this time around ?)
The Jewish historian Josephus reckons that the Pharisees believed in reincarnation.
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Certainly, many of the early 'church fathers' like Origen and Clement were into it.
Origen said
"The soul has neither beginning nor end … [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives." (Origen, De Principiis)
AND - most of the early churches the Gnostics, the Ebionites, the Nazarites and so on were all believers.
Heck, it wasn't declared 'heretical' until 553 AD.