Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown.

On this show, Pastor Matt sits down with his friends to answer your questions about life, Jesus, and the Bible.

Let's get into the episode.

Hey, welcome to the debrief with Matthew Stephen Brown. I'm Donna Martin and we are so excited to be back.

It has been way too long. It has been way too long. But the summer was great. Is great.

Yes. It's really hot still. So I don't know if I can say the summer's over. But I know.

If you don't believe in hell, I hope you do now. Yeah, exactly, because we're really close to it. And we have some amazing questions. Thank you guys for sending

in these questions. Pastor Matt, I know you're ready to answer and give us so much insight. We are

excited. So we're going to jump right in. Yeah. Okay. So this is Jennifer from Riverside and Riverside,

and she says, is reincarnation ever proved in the Bible?

And how can I, in love, walk someone through this? So here's the context. My mom became a Christian

about two years ago, and she still tries to bring her old beliefs into the Bible. Her newest

discussion is about reincarnation. And she insists that in John 1, starting in verses 19, where they asked John if he is Elijah reincarnated.

And he said no.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a great question.

And so thank you so much for just these very, very difficult questions.

And so we live in for people who grew up in church, you're like, oh my gosh, know the Bible doesn't teach this. But if you're coming from a different background or you've had a different

experience or you believe different things, when you see something like this in the Bible, you might

say, hey, sure seems like they believe in reincarnation. So let's talk about what reincarnation is.

Reincarnation is a Hindu, and I don't even like using that word, because

Hinduism, C.S. Lewis said that the Indians in India didn't know they were Hindus until the

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