Questions & Answers
Questions 125 (COD Page 583)
Luke 1:17, please explain John’s coming in “the spirit of Elias.”
456 Well, I think we just got Luke–Luke 1:17, uh-huh, coming in “the spirit of Elias.”
457 [A brother asks, “Is that where the reincarnationists get their doctrine?”–Ed.] Pardon? [“Is that where the people that believe in reincarnation begin their theory?”] Must been. [“See, they believe he come back in...”] Yes. [“...he come back in with another body] Yes, see, it is true that a spirit never dies. That’s true. God takes His man but never His Spirit. [“They say, ‘If you’ve been good you’ll come back in–into some fine fellow.’”] Yeah. Yeah. [“‘If you’ve been bad you may come back in a dog.’”] Yeah, they have...Yeah.
458 Well, now, like over in–in–over in India, it was in a group of man where we met like this, and they’d–they’d even mop the floor; step on a little ants or something, it might be some relative or something. You see, they wouldn’t do it. But, you see, that’s–that’s pagan. See? That’s pagan. That’s true.