Reincarnation was removed from Christian doctrine during the 5th Ecumenical Council in the yr. 553 (aka The 2nd Council of Constantinople). The council was evoked by the Emperor Justinian & Empress Theodora to decide then what were to be ‘acceptable’ Christian beliefs/practices https://twitter.com/veteransalways_/status/1337133827282579458
The council released a list of decrees, which sounded the death knell for the idea of reincarnation. The FIRST of these decrees read:
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“If anyone asserts the fabulous pre-existence of souls, & shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema.”
This meant that anyone believing in reincarnation was damned, & those who advocated reincarnation could be excommunicated from the Church
Lost were the mystery of Christ's teaching of a special "resurrection"- a rebirth as Jesus taught Nicodemus, symbolized by water baptism:
👉A rebirth of the spirit into flesh (i.e., "born of water", childbirth, reincarnation)
~John 3:5-6
A rebirth through the Holy Spirit (i.e., "born of the Spirit", spiritual regeneration, spiritual "resurrection")
~John 3:6-8
“Art thou he that cometh or look we for another ?
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist. Yet he that is but little in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than he”
~Matthew 11:3-15
4 gospels describe the transfiguration Jesus Christ had experienced on the mount Tabor in presence of Peter, John and James.
Those disciples saw Christ transfigured before them, and his face ‘did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light’.
And his disciples asked him, saying, why then say the Scribes that Elijah indeed cometh, and shall restore all things; but I say unto you that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they listed. Even so shall the son of man also suffer of them.
And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from Jerusalem priests and Levites to ask him, who art thou?
And he confessed and denied not, and he confessed, I am not Christ.
And they asked him, what then ?
Art thou Elijah?
~John 1:19-24
Mystery of reincarnation in Christianity was meant to remain mostly hidden for almost 2,000 yrs until the 1945 discovery of the lost Christian Gnostic writings in northern Egypt & the 1946 discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls at the time of the "rebirth" of the nation of Israel in 1948.
Jesus taught how his followers would reincarnate in the future with good karma.
The following Bible verse is a promise Jesus made to those who have forsaken everything to follow him:
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“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on Earth.”
~Hebrew 11:13
“Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.”
~Hebrews 11:35
Early Christian texts, such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Philip, clearly show Jesus teaching reincarnation which is one reason they were declared heretical.
Gospel of Thomas (free site)
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http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl_thomas.htm
Each Earth experience and life review, you enter the spirit realm which you have earned.
Every time you reincarnate (if that is your choice), a particular aspect of your greater personality (your spirit) incarnates as a new soul. Depending upon which level in the spirit realms you have earned, you realize how close you are to complete at-onement with God
The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient books (called "codices") containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary "Gnostic Gospels"
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http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html
Christian Apocrypha and Early Christian Literature..
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http://www.gnosis.org/library/cac.htm 
History of The Dead Sea Scrolls:
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http://www.gnosis.org/library/dss/dss.htm
I find this resource informative and credible.
This resonates with me well...
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https://www.near-death.com/reincarnation/history/bible-01.html#a02g
Jesus said:
“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me.”
~John 5:39
This is a directory of pages of the Great Isaiah Scroll of the Qumran community. This scroll (which has been named by scholars as "Q") is dated at 100 BC.
The Great Isaiah Scroll as "Q" and the received text as Masoretic or "M."
(Free Site)
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https://ao.net/~fmoeller/qum-intr.htm
Temple Scroll (Hebrew: מגילת המקדש) is the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Discovered at Qumran it is designated: 11QTemple Scrolla (11Q19 [11QTa])
A Jewish temple which was never built,with extensive detailed regulations about temple practices.
https://museum.imj.org.il/shrine_center/Temple_article.html
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