Reincarnation

possibly there were many incarnations of Jesus such as Adam, Enoch, Melchizedek, Joseph (the prince of Egypt), Joshua, Jeshua and finally Jesus and many other characters from the Old Testament to the extent that the entire Christian Bible becomes part of the story of his long struggle to attain Christhood.
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I think you're mistaking a literary technique of character typing for evidence of successive reincarnation. Jesus is a type of Adam. His father is a type of Joseph who is himself a type of Adam. He is a priest of the same type as Melchizidek, etc. This is how the characters in the Bible narrative are constructed: as embodiments of patriarchal archetypes. You have to overlay eastern and quasi eastern predilections toward reincarnation over the text to get this sort of theosophical Christ working his way up through successive lives. That is not self evident in the text by any objective standard.

I think, as Wil said, there's no harm in mixing it up east-west wise, but I also think that it should always be clear what comes from inside the box and what comes from outside the box.

Chris
 
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