Do you believe we come back to "finish" something? And what would we finish? Learning? Ultimate enlightenment?
Yes.... I think that a part of us does reincarnate....... but I think we are duplicated and another part of our soul or over soul lives on in a higher dimension of space - time........ I believe in both reincarnation in some form as well as resurrection.......... as well as multiple duplicates of us being created / replicated for all examples of Multiverse that take place during the years in which we are human........ According to a near death experiencer who was shown some events from the time of Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus....... the following statements were made by Messiah Yeshua - Jesus:
I just finished reading "Many Lives, Many Masters". It contains a very compelling story. It's more of a pamphlet than a book. It's definitely a one sitting read. There is an old joke. An atheist asks a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim, "Are you all monotheists?" "Yes", they answer. "You believe in only one God?", the atheist asks. "Yes", they answer. "Good". "We are very close. You believe in one God, and I believe in no God. We are only one God apart." the atheist concluded. That joke illustrates the fact that the difference between something and nothing is infinitely greater than the difference between something and everything. I too am left to believe in reincarnation, but only once. This brings me much closer to those who believe in thousands of reincarnations than it does to those who do not believe in resurrection from the dead at all. Reincarnation cannot explain incarnation in the first place. And, by definition, that which is reincarnated is also incarnated. Incarnate means coming to be. It actually being coming to be flesh. That which comes to be cannot also be necessary in its being, or divine or eternal or any of the other things that believers in reincarnation attribute to human beings. Reincarnation does not adequately address contingency/necessity, by my measure. As I wrote above, reincarnation is, in my opinion, in and of itself, quite plausible. However, I consider reincarnation to be even stronger evidence of contingency than resurrection.
That which is incarnated is, by definition, the effect of something else. There cannot be an infinite regression of cause and effect; therefore, that which is incarnated is ultimately incarnated by something that has not been incarnated; it has been incarnated by something that exists necessarily.