re christianity and repeated lives in article may athos rutgers edu danc procom com daniel cossack writes jek cu nih gov writes the apostle paul romans points out that god chose jacob rather than esau if we admit the possibility that they had lived previous lives and that in accordance with the asiatic idea of karma and following romans to as it is written jacob have i loved but esau have i hated how could god have loved and hated in the past tense those that are not yet born neither having done good or evil woah the context is about god s calling out a special people the jews to carry the promise to read the meaning as literal people is to miss paul s entire point i d be glad to send anyone more detailed explanations of this passage if interested ted kalivoda tedr athena cs uga edu university of georgia athens institute of higher ed
