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Can Christians Believe in Reincarnation?

How can I become one with God and nature?

The Bible says that Jesus Christ created all things and specifically the world we call nature (John 1:3). It
was created and was declared “very good” (Genesis 1:31). That’s another way of saying it was perfect in
every way. Adam and Eve tended the garden in innocence. But a day came when Adam and Eve
rejected God’s authority and disobeyed, bringing sin into the world along with death. At that same
time, nature was placed under the curse of sin. According to Romans 8:19-23,

19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of
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God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him
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who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage
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to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we
know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth

until now.

When man sinned, death and pain and corruption entered the world and every man and woman since
then have felt the consequences of sin. The Bible says in romans 5:12, “Therefore, just as sin came into

the world through one man (Adam), and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all
sinned.”

The verse above describes it as a “bondage to corruption” in which there is only one escape. God had to
provide a way for man’s sin to be dealt with. Before the creation, He had already determined to send

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