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order to explain the total restoration of all souls Origen advocated the preexistence<br />
and fall of souls; multiple ages and transmigration of souls at the beginning of each age; and the eventual restoration of all souls in the course of ages after In<br />
"The soul has neither beginning nor end… They come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives" (de Principiis) ages.<br />
was unable to conceive of a God who would create souls that were capable Origen<br />
dissolving into the oblivion of evil (non-being) for all eternity. He reasoned that if a single lifetime is not enough for a soul to achieve salvation, a new age is the provision to achieve that. So he developed his doctrine of multiple ages, which of<br />
would be re-born, to experience the educative powers of God once again, with a view to ultimate salvation. This doctrine, of course, implies some form of transmigration of souls or metempsychosis. Yet Origen’s version of metempsychosis souls<br />
not the same as that of the reincarnation of the Pythagoreans and the Gnostics was<br />
the Hindus. There is no return of the souls into this world in this age. There has to be death and at the end of the age a resurrection followed by judgment and seperation. Finally total restoration will come and all mankind will return home with and<br />
Father and there will be a great banquet. 1 Corinthians 15:25-28, “when all things shall be subdued unto him [Christ], then the<br />
RESURRECTION AND REINCARNATION<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
John 5:28-29, Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, when ALL that are in the<br />
graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the<br />
RESURRECTION OF LIFE; and they that have done evil, unto the RESURRECTION<br />
OF DAMNATION.<br />
Both are resurrection in their bodies.<br />
Multiple Ages, Metempsychosis, and the <strong>Res</strong>toration of All<br />
shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all (panta en pasin)” (KJV). The choice of Jacob over Easu indicates the preexistence age where the Karma<br />
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gathered. God loved Jacob and hated Esau before they were even born. (Mal. was
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