The question of reincarnation or eternal life has occupied human thought for all ages. In many cultures, people speak of the soul’s journey from body to body, while the Bible presents the promise of eternal life in God. But what does this truly mean? And how can we understand the soul’s journey in light of both the witness of Scripture and the insight God has shown?
The Soul is Eternal
First, it is important to understand that the soul can never cease to exist. It was created in God’s image and carries His breath within it. Therefore, eternity is already a fact. The question is not whether the soul lives on, but how it experiences life.
For the soul, there is only one true source of life: God’s love. When we are close to Him, we feel the fullness of life. When we are far away, it feels as though we are not alive. Eternal life, therefore, is not merely duration but a state of closeness to God.
Life on Earth as Experience
The soul may choose to enter several lives on earth. Not because it must, but because it needs experience. Earth is like a school – full of challenges, contrasts, and trials. We experience sin, mistakes, pain, but also forgiveness, joy, and love. All of this shapes us.
Between each life, however, the soul receives a glimpse of God’s love. And in that light, we realize that being on earth, with all its limitations, is not life in its deepest sense. We see that true life is to be in God. Still, we choose to return, again and again, until we are complete.
The Longing to Be Finished
Just as a child in school longs for freedom, the soul longs to be finished with earth’s school. No one desires to remain in trials forever. We long to complete, to pass, and to move on to the freedom of love.
As humans, we perceive this earthly life as “living.” We see it as a beginning and an end. But in truth, it is only a phase, a part of the learning. When an earthly life is over, judgment comes. Not as an external punisher, but as a deep mirror of truth: the soul sees itself in God’s light and recognizes what is missing.
Time is an Illusion
In God’s reality, there is no time. The future has already happened, and yet everything is open because we have free will. For us, life feels linear – we are born, live, and die. But the soul experiences everything simultaneously. All the human lives it lives unfold side by side. When you die in 1980, the next experience might be in 1800 or 2300. The soul chooses what best serves its learning.
This means we do not live in a cycle of “death and rebirth” as people often think. We live in a vast mosaic of experiences, all woven together in God’s eternal now. And in the meantime, the soul chooses what more it needs to learn.
How Many Lives Are Needed?
No one completes the journey in only one life. Some souls need ten lives, others a hundred. It depends on what experiences are necessary to grow closer to God. For the soul, failing to reach its goals is painful. The longing for God’s love is so strong that everything else fades. This is why the soul keeps returning until it finally becomes whole.
When we are at last finished with earth, it means we have learned what we came to learn. We no longer need more lives. Then the soul rests in God. And this is what the Bible calls eternal life: not only endless existence but perfect unity with the Source.
The Great Truth
All souls shall come home to God. None are lost forever. The future is already complete in God’s perspective, even though we experience the journey step by step. We are judged, but it is we ourselves who judge, when we see our lives in the light of God’s love. And then we understand what is lacking and choose for ourselves how to grow further.
Eternal life is therefore not only a promise of what is to come. It is the very definition of living in love. When one day we are finished with earth’s school, we will no longer long. Then we are home, united with the Source. And that is when we truly live.
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