Reincarnation

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? …

…before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.