Do Christians Believe in Karma?

Moore's Corner Church

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All right, so it was common in the days of Christ and I think it's still common to some extent for people to assume that if someone is going through a time of Suffering if someone is sick if bad things are happening in their life

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God must be punishing them now on the one hand in Scripture we definitely see a connection between sin and suffering.

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I mean, that's that goes without saying There is the principle that you reap what you sow, right?

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What unbelievers call this the unbelievers have a different word that they use for this.

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What is it? Karma, right? Hey No born -again Christian should be using the word karma.

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Let me explain why and hey if you have I'm not mad at you I'm just explaining to you why you shouldn't use it.

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Okay? But that's the idea. They think that you know, what goes around comes around That's karma.

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You do bad things gonna come back to bite you. Well, that might be true to a certain degree Here's the thing about karma

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Karma is a part of Eastern religion And from what I understand it has to do with reincarnation

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So people do bad things they're storing up bad karma. It doesn't come back to you in this life

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It causes you in the next life when you're reincarnated to come back as a snail or a worm or something

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I mean, it may be not like that, but you understand karma has nothing to do with this life. It's for the next life in reincarnation

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So you shouldn't be using that term? That's not that's not true Obviously, but yeah, it's true that you reap what you so I mean that's that's valid what goes around comes around There's some truth to that Well, here's one point you can make if you take notes.

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Here's one reason. There's many reasons one reason We want to obey Christ it helps to minimize

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Suffering if you rebel against God and and know his commandments and break them and you do that on an ongoing basis

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If you're a child of God, you're gonna be punished by God. I mean that that's Without question.