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Karma
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Posted by: angelofthelord
Is there such a thing as KARMA? Karma originated from the false Hindu
religion and has been adopted by other false religions like Buddhism
and the various New Age philosophies. It literally means deed or act, and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect that
governs all life. The basic teaching of karma is that for every event
that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by
the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant depending
on whether the first event was pleasant or unpleasant. Karma is a
philosophy that has NO basis in truth and to be perfectly blunt, is a load of
cow manure.
I have told you over and over how satan is the great perverter. Satan
takes the perfect things of God and perverts them. He takes the truth of
God and turns it into a lie. The TRUTH from God's Word where the perverted
lie of karma comes from is the law of sowing and reaping. We first read
about it in Genesis 1:11. The foundation of the law of sowing and reaping
was in agriculture. You plant seed into the ground, and in time that seed
will produce a crop. This law of sowing and reaping also translates into
our spiritual lives as well. The key passage is from Paul's letter to the
church at Galatia where he tells them, "The one who sows to please his
sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows
to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life (Galatians
6:8 NIV).
I share with you often how our rebellion to God brings consequences and
our obedience brings blessings. When we choose to live our lives in
disobedience to God's Word, when we choose to sin, we are then left to
deal with the consequences of our sinful choices. God is not going to bless
your sin. However, when we choose to live our lives in obedience to God's
Word, when we choose to obey Him, we reap the blessings of God in our
life.
It is God's good pleasure to bless His children, He loves to bless us and it
is our obedience that unlocks the blessings of God in our lives. That my
friend is NOT karma, it is God allowing the consequences of our sinful
choices and the blessings of our obedient choices to occur.
The myth of karma is an attempt to explain what happens to us during
our life APART from God. In this perverted lie from satan, God is not part
of the process. That fact alone exposes this false philosophy since
NOTHING happens in your life, in my life, in this world apart from God. God
did not just create the world and then decide to go take a walk and come
back and check on things later to see how they were progressing. GOD HAS
A PLAN AND PURPOSE FOR EVERYTHING AND NOTHING HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF
THAT PLAN AND PURPOSE.
This, of course, raises the question of why do we have all of the evil
and horrible things that happen in this world and in people's lives every
day. As we have discussed in the past, the evil in this world stems from the
hearts of men living their lives in rebellion to God. God has
permitted the evil and sin in this world for these few years in His desire to
see all men come to repentance and that none be lost. We know from
reading the end of the Book, there is coming a day very soon when God will
step in and wipe away this world as we know it and all sin and evil will cease
to exist.
One of the key passages in the Bible to understanding the mind God is
found in Isaiah 55:8 and 9, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither
are your ways my ways, declares the LORD . As the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts
than your thoughts." What God is saying is to quit trying to get into His
head because you can't. We simply do not have the ability to know or even
begin to comprehend the mind of God. The fact is, there is no place in the
Bible that says we are supposed to.
As humans, we have this insatiable desire to know "why," and the fact
is there are times in our life when we will not get the answer to that
question. These are the times when our faith in God must become real
and while we don't know "why," God has a plan and purpose for everything
and we have to trust Him. The interesting thing I see in my life and the
lives of others is that we never ask God "why" when good things happen to
us, only the bad things. Take a moment and think on that one with me.
When was the last time something wonderful happened in your life and you
asked God "why?"
Probably never. It is almost exclusively when the tragic things happen
to us that we are asking God "why?"
There is no such thing as karma. It
is a philosophy born out of the false religions to try and explain the
things that happen in our life and is nothing more than a perversion of
God's law of sowing and reaping. Let me tell you something else that
doesn't exist, and that is LUCK. I know I am bursting many bubbles
today but luck is a perverted concept of chance that doesn't exist so take
that word out of your vocabulary. The reason karma and luck don't exist is
that they operate apart from God and NOTHING happens apart from God!
There is nothing that happens in your life apart from God and that is why we
are totally dependent upon Him.
Posted by: Sulten
Thanks so much for posting this lesson angeloftheLord. It was so good!
Posted by: Christian Commando
Yes pretty darn good, but let me clarify further also.
"Karma" is refered to as a "person's Karma" or simply stated- "spiritual position". Why?
Karma has to do with supposedly what a person was before, to reach the level they are now, which also dictates what they have done in thier past lifetimes up to the present, to dictate how they will be "re-incarnated" in thier next life.
Many countries following such false religions as A O L mentioned, will not help thier citizens who are starving, diseased and more, because they tell them it was thier "Karma" that brought them to that position. (Be it past or present).
thus, "Karma" does have to do with people's acts or deeds of the past lives to present ones, but few if any relate at all to a life apart from God, as the majority of doctrines which believe in "Karma" do not believe in a God, but that man becomes one or evwentually reaches a level of spirituality where they connect directly with a "god conciousness". (This has to do with all information and intelligence that has ever existed thru out this world's existance, of which we can supposedly tap into at some point).
Yet, in general, because of religions, "Karma" means many things to so many different ones, implying Angel's and all other descriptions given in doctrinal explainations of a religions beliefs about it.
God Bless!!