Karma

At the start of this weekend because I am grounded because of the broken Goose Neck hitch on my pick-up truck and stuck at home I have decided to talk to you about Karma. I have heard it about my whole life long, "What goes around comes around". Implying that you get what you deserve because of how you have treated others. This is not a Biblical concept in spite of the admonition that you will reap what you sow, and he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind. For Galatians 6: 7-8 "Be not deceived; God has not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." is not talking about being punished or reworded for you action while on earth, rather the consequences of after the flesh or the Spirit. And in Hosea Chapter 8:7 "For they sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up." Is an admonition that if you walk the path of destruction you will be destroyed.

Sounds like Karma to you you say, well let me explain the difference with the concept of Karma as believed by its creators, the Hindus, Karma determines the life you live by the life you have lived. When you are born into the world you are born with a karma debt that places you in whatever circumstance you are born. From the Brahamins at on top to the Untouchables on the bottom. To believe in Karma is to believe that if you help the unfortunate you are adding to their karma debt and condemning them a larger karma debt to pay so the best thing you can do for them is to let them suffer and pay the debt. For it is only when the debt is paid that the soul can move to a higher plane of existence.

I put the picture of the tornado at top to contrast the one who accepts a Christian outlook and one who believes in Karma. The Christian believes that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, and when a tornado comes through town and rips one house apart right next to another that it leaves unharmed that the past action of the owners had nothing to do with the damage is done or not done. While a believer in Karma has to believe that it was a karmic debt being repaid to the good on one side and to the bad on the other side.

In other words, the believer in Karma believes that one's past action explains all events that come down upon a person. While a Christian believes in but one life and then the judgment. I am grounded because of the broken Goose Neck hitch on my pick-up truck and stuck at home I have decided to talk to you about Karma. I have heard it about my whole life long, "What goes around comes around". Implying that you get what you deserve because of how you have treated others. This is not a Biblical concept in spite of the admonition that you will reap what you sow, and he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind. For Galatians 6: 7-8 "Be not deceived; God has not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." is not talking about being punished or reworded for you action while on earth, rather the consequences of following after the flesh or the Spirit. And in Hosea Chapter 8:7 "For they sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up." It is an admonition that if you walk the path of destruction you will be destroyed.then the judgment.