Do Christians Believe in Karma?

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

I mean, that's that goes without saying there is the principle that you reap what you sow, right? What unbelievers call this the unbelievers have a different word that they use for this. What is it? Karma, right?

Why Christians Should Not Use the Word Karma

Hey. No born-again Christian should be using the word karma and 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. Okay? But that's the idea.

They think that you know, what goes around comes around. That's karma. 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. Karma is a part of Eastern religion.

And from what I understand it has to do with reincarnation. So people do bad things they're storing up bad karma, it doesn't come back to you in this life. It causes you in the next life when you're reincarnated to come back as a snail or a worm or something I mean, maybe not like that, but you understand karma has nothing to do with this life.

It's for the next life in Reincarnation, 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 sow I mean, that's that's valid what goes around comes around.

Obedience to Christ Minimizes Suffering

There's some truth to that. Well, here's one point you can make if you take notes. Here's one reason. There's many reasons one reason we want to obey Christ. It helps to minimize Suffering if you rebel against God and and know his commandments and break them and you do that on an ongoing basis If you're a child of God, you're gonna be punished by God.

I mean that that's Without question. That's what the Bible teaches. So we want to obey Christ and minimize that kind of suffering.