Do Christians believe in karma?
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Thread Topic: Do Christians believe in karma?
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UnLoving NewbieRevelation 22:12
"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward with me, an I will give to everyone according to what he has done..."
Also there's one something like "The lord blesses those who do good deeds" -
This is about the Five Crowns that God will give his believers if they deserve then
The incorruptible crown
The crown of rejoicing
The crown of life/The Martyr's Crown.
The crown of righteousness
The crown of glory -
UnLoving NewbieThe what??
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I don't see why not. You don't have to be in some sort of religion to believe in karma.
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No, Christians do not believe in karma. Karma is a Buddhist and Hindu concept. Christians believe in judgement, which is when God judges you on your acts and deeds and decides whether you should go to heaven, hell, or purgatory. That is basically what the Five Crown's in lovehorses99's post mean. When the time has come for the Judgement Day, God will judge you based on those five things. The teachings of the Five Crowns are very similar to those of the Beatitudes. Judgement and karma are very different because judgement is God actually looking at you and taking different things into account (moral object, circumstance, and intention) while karma is more of a cause and effect sort of thing.
All of the information I have provided can be found in the CCC (Catechism of the Catholic Church). It does not necessarily reflect my own personal beliefs, I was simply answering a question I knew the answer to. I am not willing to argue over it. -
OK I am not Catholic Church so I do not really agree with you rascal.....
I do not agree with your "purgatory"
The crowns are rewards that God give the true Christian..... -
The passage on Revelations is about the Five Crowns, as lovehorses explained.
In Job 4:8- As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it."
What Job says here is familiar but it isn't the mystical karma which the Hindu and Buddha religion refers to. In life, people don't always get justice and the weights aren't always balanced to the good people. The rewards and "justice" comes in heaven. Most passages in the Bible that are similar to the one in Job does not necessarily mean you're setting yourself up for a bad time in life for doing wrongdoings to other people. God gets back to the bad people as it states in Revelations.
So to answer your question, yes some Christians may believe in karma because they believe justice should be served in this life. Other Christians don't because karma should be justified in the next life (Heaven, good rewards etc) -
If justice is served in heaven, then why would God intervene in life at all? Isn't that just negating his own system?
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UnLoving Newbie@Riptide thanks :)
@bob I'm not sure exactly what you mean?? Maybe reword that? -
UnLoving I agree.. bob can you reword that please
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Under the idea that Justice is served in heaven..
If God influences the real world, wouldn't he by extension alter the outcome of people's lives and also their judgement?
By influencing people's lives differently, he is indirectly picking favorites.
For example: Two people are having an issue finding their keys.
Person 1: "God" helped them by letting them find their keys and they were able to make it to work.
Person 2: "God" helped them because while they were unable to get to work, a bomb threat happened and Person 2 was lucky enough not to be there.
So by picking and choosing how "God" wants to influence people's lives in the real world, he is altering what and how they will be judged in the after life. Two people with an identical situation before God's intervention in the real world will directly influence their actions and how they will be judged in the after life. -
I don't think God influences the real world. After all, He did give us free will on our choices and actions. We influence the earth with our own choices and actions.
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UnLoving NewbieTwo words.....
Free will.
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