Reincarnation to me, feels like robbery; as it robs the person of his or her unique identity, or “personhood” - that which makes me, me, is effectively annihilated and cheapened by the constant reiteration of nearly completely separate lives. I cease to be me, but become instead thousands of other people, I no longer exist as a unique person - but as a conglomeration of forgotten memories, little more than fuel to animate an organic machine.
If I reincarnate, “Lefein” is annihilated and replaced with Susie, or Jim, or Bob…and whom ever this person that replaces me is, that person too is effectively annihilated when they die and are reincarnated. The only thing that passes on, is my “spiritual nutrients, and a spark” to light up another bodily machine.
In this mode, Christ does not love “me” - and I am nothing more than soul-coal to power an organic engine. My identity is stolen by a usurper, my “next life” isn’t mine, any more than Lefein’s life belongs to my “past life”.
On top of this, to me (and it might not make sense to others) but it feels ultimately gross to be reincarnated, and cheapening; and certainly impermanent. My experiences, my relationships (even with God), my hopes, dreams, legacy, destiny, and what ever goodness in me is without lasting value.
For me, for example. When I marry - my love and relationship with the girl I marry I intend to last forever. Even after the vows and contract system of marriage have been long dissolved in the resurrection - my love and relationship (the true binding of two hearts, Love not Law) shall continue in ever perfecting perfection. In essence, I and my dear girl shall be immortal, and immortally in love after we’ve shed our bodies and ended our pilgrimage here.
To me, marriage is more than a mere “utilitarian” relationship for making babies, and keeping yourself from fornicating…It is an actual true-love expression meant to last for as long as Love himself lasts.
If reincarnation is true, then my wife and I will reincarnate…and our love which was meant to last forever as a monogamous expression - didn’t last more than 80, 90. 120+ years. I lose the love of my life forever, she is replaced, and so am I, by people who are not us. We are eternally divorced, as well as annihilated. She, and I, die, and never live again. There is no resurrection, or continuance for us. We are superseded as beings by the next life, who use our life-essence as fuel, like a parasite on its host. And if this were not so, and infact by some shere dark miracle I did pass on as Lefein, and remained Lefein (and was not superseded by the life of Bob, or Susie, or Jim) - then I have still lost forever my true love…and to me, that is too much to bear.
Especially since I would feel in my spirit the pain of what to me, is adultery, and abandonment. My love (if she were not superseded by the next life in her cycle) would have been with, or found others…I no longer would have any place in her heart; or else if she did not, we’d be on a fruitless, painful, and torturous search for one another in a large world.
Either way; Reincarnation as far as I’ve seen it leads to impermanence and cheapness of life’s experiences. Either by making those experiences a constant game of “tease the cat” between two souls (a cruel game, full of pain and agony) or it effectively annihilates the individual, and replaces it with another - the human being becomes little more than “soul-coal”.
This is why I find it displeasing.
As for babies being reincarnated, I still believe it implies the same as the above. The child’s identity - however, or where ever it may develop, here or in Heaven, or glorified Earth, or what have you - is effectively destroyed by the usurping-replacing next life in the cycle. In my opinion a baby named “Amy” if she died in the womb - would cease to be “Amy” if she reincarnated and lived her next life (for example) to ripe old age as a 90 year old biker man, a former marine named Seth McGruffingbuffic…nothing of Amy could possibly exist in that…except the soul-coal (formerly Amy) used to animate the would be Sergeant Seth.
Effectively, reincarnation doesn’t give “Amy” any experience in being “Amy” at all. Amy is annihilated, used as fuel, and then replaced with Seth.
As I’ve espoused in other threads, I do not see “growing to adulthood” or “going through a certain number of trials in a gauntlet” as a pre-requisite for being with God, or being perfected. Though I have a difficult time explaining it all myself, as I did in the other thread.
Grace through Faith, this is what defeated Death, and through God we overcome Death which separates us.
In our life, we are all doing two things - fulfilling our earthly destinies, however long, or short that may be (for what God has purposed us to do here); and also going through the process of overcoming Death.
Fulfilling our earthly destinies is simple enough. We enter the stage, we exist, we play our part, we go to God to wait for the play to finish.
Overcoming Death - Through Christ, Father and Holy Ghost; God who is a fire, who is the All Consuming Fire - we overcome Death as he did, and live. Being sanctified one way or another, cleaned of the dross or the dirt we pick up as we walk into the world, or through it.
A simplified way of speaking, but it is a quick way to just summarise that I don’t see how “skipping this world” (which isn’t skipping it at all, its just a shorter stay than yours is) somehow puts the children at a disadvantage or makes God unjust in his dealings with the lives of men - considering that the fallen world is temporary at best, and our Real Home, Real Lives, Real Selves, and our Real Experience is to be done in the Resurrection.
The New Heaven and Earth are not retirement, or the “end” - it is the actual, and eternal Life of mankind. This “fallen” phase of existence - is little more than God purging, and preparing the real thing to be “the real thing” as he intended.
As I often say; God made everything Good…He intends to make everything Glorious.