Maazi Dibia On Reincarnation, Scripture, and Cultural Identity: A Catholic Examination
The staunch proponent of reincarnation; an enthusiast of Afro revivalist spirituality who combines mythology, nationalism and selective biblical interpretation; and would have his audience believe that truth is essentially tribal and culturally determined ... Prologue: A Familiar Argumentative Pudding I stumbled on an arresting post on my news feed. It reads thus: “Someone had the effrontery to quote the Bible verse Hebrew 9 vs 27 as his means of Debunking reincarnation in the comment section of the previous post so I decided to remind the person that the Same Bible confirmed that Reincarnation is real in the book of Mathew 11 vs 12-14 where the Bible Jesus asserts that Elijah reincarnated and returned as John the Baptist because he wasted the lives of the prophets at Mount Camel according to the account of 1 King's 18. Now my anger is this: 1. Why would an Igbo man seek validation from the Bible when his ancestors predates the Biblical Adam? 2. Even if we...