: I Just read your source and it is anything but valid. The website it comes from is there just to sell books made up by the site itself. It is as if I wrote a book proving that 3 toed frogs flew over Jesus' head and then made up a website and asked "Did the First Council of Nicaea suppress all of the verses in the Bible that spoke of these 3 toed angelic frogs"? now buy my book. No the early church never believed in reincarnation The Writer of Hebrews (had to be written before 97 AD because Clement of Rome quotes from it - more likely 50-69 AD)wrote in Hebrews 9:27 "Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment" So 300 years before First Council of Nicaea the church as well as the Jews the preceded them never believed in reincarnation.69.14.96.9