About Reincarnation

     Information about reincarnation existed (and exists) in the Bible and some apocryphal texts. Sentence of the first centuries the Church has accepted reincarnation, supported by Jesus. In 553, however, at the Fifth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, reincarnation has been anathema sentence, considered as a dogmatic error. Emperor Justinian (exactly-why his "damned be he who, from now on, we believe in pre-existence of the soul") has imposed its own clergy or creed, to be arrested Pope Vigilius (to not disturb the council!) and forced the bishops to accept the new dogma. Justinian considered reincarnation grant humanity a sentence too long time to reach a higher stage of consciousness development.
     After the year 553, the faithful were told by the church as they provide one life to return to the stage again before committing the original sin.
Justinian's new sentence, massively propagated among parishioners everywhere during the next centuries, continued till today, has led to errors and behaviors of older people, mostly trying to live a full life so-called unique.
The church gradually excluded almost all texts, documents, and the 31 apocryphal gospels, inconsistent new lines drawn dogmatic. With all the censorship imposed by original texts, and were kept in places some references to the reincarnation of Jesus (Gospel of John [3.1 to 8], also Jesus'statements about the prophet Elijah reincarnated in the body of John the Baptist in Matthew's Gospel [11.14 and 17.10 to 13], or the words of Jesus the Pharisees about the fact that he would once have lived on earth, before the patriarch Abraham [Gospel of John, from 8.56 to 58]). Other biblical passages without evidence of reincarnation: "Jeremiah" (1:5), "The Book of Wisdom" (2.5 and 8.20), "The Book of Kohelet (12.6),"The Gospel of Matthew "(26 , 52), "The Gospel of John" (9.1 to 3), "Epistle to the Philippians" (2.6 to 7), "Epistle of James" (3.6). Also, the documents canonical (apocryphal): "The Gospel of Pistis Sophia, " "Gospel of Thomas " to