The concept of immortality of soul!!

My religion, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, also has a concept of immortality of the soul. Instead of necessarily being immediately reborn though, instead the soul continues into the Otherworld, where the path it will take is decided between the soul itself and the Gods. It can be reborn, or continue in the Otherworld as a sort of spirit guide, or if it's ready, go on to a sort of "afterlife" where it can live peacefully.

This may not have anything to do with your discussion exactly but after reading through what is said this is what I feel like saying so I am saying it....In all honesty it doesn't matter what any of us believe! It is what God believes that counts as he is the one who put all this in motion in the first place. There are many religions but only One True God. Many of these religions ultimately believe in the one true God but have different ideas on finding their way to him or working out their religious belief. So we are all like chickens running around with our heads cut off trying to work it all out and thinking we know the way and our way is better. We complicate the issue and make it difficult for anyone to want to believe in God. If God is who He says He is then the truth is simple enough for everyone to understand so that we all have an opportunity to know Him. God is truth! To know Him is to be a lover of truth; and truth will find you and indeed you will know Him because you will desire to know Him because you will desire to know truth. We can seek all we want leaning on our own understanding to find this truth but until we stop and ask God the creator of this universe to reveal truth to us we may never find out. The only way to do this is to open your heart to truth if you dare to put your own sense of self aside for the truth of God to enter in! Truth will find you if you want Him too!

What makes me me is nothing but the sum total of my instances and my memory of those instances. I am the sum of my actions, thoughts, feelings, memories, experiences, etc. This is my identity; who I am. What then of the me can survive reincarnation? So, if the soul passes from one body to another but has no memory of that former life (And as I understand it there has never been any authenticated instance of a person remembering any details of a past life) Then in what sense is that the same person, I think by common sense, it is not. I think the idea is wrapped up with a confused notion that we are somehow like the driver of a car. That the me is the driver and my body is the car but that, thinks I, is just a misconception of ourselves. We, body, mind, spirit, however you like to call it are an integrated whole not really capable of being separated into component parts. For these reasons I think the concept of reincarnation fundamentally incoherent all the best urban

I couldn't say for sure as I was raised in the Christian faith and that is not part of our theology. Maybe buddhism is similar as they believe in reincarnation. I would like to think that our souls are immortal and that we continue to develop over many lives continually learning and perfecting our selves. However with the way that many people seem to be these days it is doubtful, unfortunately I see a lot more greed, selfishness, inconsideration, bad manners etc than I think there has ever been.

Hi ram, Thank you for this, as I know very little about Hinduism. There are many people who believe in reincarnation, but I don't know if it is taught in many religions. Blessings.