Silverbackman said:
My belief is when you die you either go to a heaven or hell expelling the postive or negative karma for a limited amount of time, and then you spirit or soul will be reincarnated back on Earth.
On the question of "a limited amount of time"...
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It is even possible that the condition of those who have died in sin and unbelief may become changed—that is to say, they may become the object of pardon through the bounty of God, not through His justice—for bounty is giving without desert, and justice is giving what is deserved. As we have power to pray for these souls here, so likewise we shall possess the same power in the other world, which is the Kingdom of God. Are not all the people in that world the creatures of God? Therefore, in that world also they can make progress. As here they can receive light by their supplications, there also they can plead for forgiveness and receive light through entreaties and supplications. Thus as souls in this world, through the help of the supplications, the entreaties and the prayers of the holy ones, can acquire development, so is it the same after death. Through their own prayers and supplications they can also progress, more especially when they are the object of the intercession of the Holy Manifestations."
Now about reincarnation, but perhaps it could be called Return - the theme of Return....
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And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." (Matt. 12:12-14) Second, "And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them." (Matt. 17:12)
Now if John would have known who he was and would not have lied about it, how much more would Jesus have known and related it truthfully. This might leave us in a quandary if not for a final critical piece of the puzzle, found in Luke 1:17, where an angel appears to Zacharias, John's father, to inform him that his prayers for a child were to be answered. Speaking of the child that would be born to Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth, the angel says, echoing the words of the prophecy in Malachi, "And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
We experience a collective "AH-HA!" at this point, understanding that it was not the person of Elias that returned, but the spirit and power of Elias that returned. When John denied being Elias, he spoke the truth, for he was John, not Elias. When Jesus affirmed that John was Elias, He likewise spoke the truth, a spiritual truth. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." This is what the Bible says "return" means, not the physical return of the same prophet, but the return of the qualities and attributes, the "spirit and power" of the previous prophet. This is the same sense in which we speak of the season of Spring returning. When Spring returns, it is of course a different year than the last Spring. The world isn't quite the same and events don't transpire the same way. We aren't reliving the previous Spring. Yet the qualities we associate with springtime are everywhere in evidence. So this is what "return" means."
And as there is a Return of the Prophet there, so there is a return of circumstances, people opposing the Prophet, and so on. Every station and condition in life can be held by the next generation and generations forever.
Leaping back to the topic of reincarnation - we each have specific conditions and circumstances and relationships, and yet everyone has them in one form or another. We don't come back but people can live in the same roles, with similar enough circumstances, to be a return like us.
So no - specifically Baha'is do not believe a soul once living comes back to live again on Earth. But there are similar ideas.
