We Dance
Lecky Mouse - I've taken your cue and have begun a thread on What's Been Edited from the Xtian bible.
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/whats-edited-from-the-xtian-bible.3159/
Zoe - Beliefs are neither right nor wrong. Some can be mistaken, as for example if you think you have gossamer wings and can fly, while others are a personal and private choice of philosophy, religion, or ethics, such as Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.
However, some beliefs, such as reincarnation or, say, transubstantiation, are actually statements of alleged fact, observations about how reality works, and as such can and should be tested and figured out. Transubstantiation, for instance, is the idea that, during holy communion, the wafer becomes the actual flesh of Jesus and the wine his blood. True believers actually think they are eating "of" their "lord".
This can be tested. Scientists can ascertain whether there is any change brought about -- which would, incidentally, rearrange if not demolish all of the physics that has held together and proven itself over centuries and throughout observable reality.
When we see that no magical change comes about, it does nothing to alter the faith of the faithful in this miracle. It does, however, say something about belief and it being unrelated to reality per se.
Same with reincarnation. There is no way to disprove it, as one cannot prove a negative, but if one could PROVE it, think what an interesting array of changes would flow through the world. If you really truly knew you'd come back, then things here and now would be different. Perhaps you'd adopt a long-term view, and learn gradually, and be less quick to judge harshly. Or perhaps you'd fear coming back as a cockroach and act accordingly. If there were only human-to-human reincarnation, then maybe you'd hide journals and even wealth for your next self to find, and so on, to allow you continuity among many lives.
It's the doubt that makes the faith.
As a ZenTao Cowboy, I choose neither to believe nor to disbelief, but simply to do what good I can with what I can reach, and ride out the dance.