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Karma is not real and is actually anti-Christian

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Definition by Miriam-Webster:

kar·ma \ˈkär-mə

  • the force created by a person’s actions that is believed in Hinduism and Buddhism to determine what that person’s next life will be like
  • the force created by a person’s actions that some people believe causes good or bad things to happen to that person

 

Karma is a teaching of a new age occult religion that is intrinsically problematic for Christians. It is a snare for a believer in Jesus Christ. Here are a few reasons that the theory of karma is problematic:

  1. Karma presupposes that a human (mortal) generates a force. This is opposed to the Christian belief that only by God can we do anything. In John 15:5, Jesus says, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”
  1. Hinduism and Buddhism are antithetical to Christianity.
  1. Karma promotes the idea that there is reincarnation after death. Jesus proved by His own death and resurrection that the theory of reincarnation is not real.  Death is the end of man’s earthly pilgrimage. Life is a time of grace and mercy, which God offers mankind. Man is given this earthly life to live in keeping with the divine plan. The way in which he chooses to live his life will help decide his ultimate destiny. When “the single course of our earthly life” is completed,586 we shall not return to other earthly lives: “It is appointed for men to die once.”587 There is no “reincarnation” after death (CCC 1013; 586 LG 48 § 3; 587 Heb 9:27). http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a11.htm#1013
  1. Christians are called to Spiritual Childhood, by which we understand that we can do nothing on our own. Christ says: “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 18: 3).” But spiritual childhood does not involve weakness, softness or ignorance. St. Josemaria wrote: “I have often meditated on this life of spiritual childhood, which is not incompatible with fortitude, because it demands a strong will, proven maturity, an open and firm character. To become children we must renounce our pride and self-sufficiency, recognizing that we can do nothing by ourselves. We must realize that we need grace, and the help of God our Father to find our way and keep it. To be little, you have to abandon yourself as children do, believe as children, beg as children beg (St. J. Escriva, “Christ Is Passing By”, 10 and 143).” St. Peter, for his part, tells us: “Without having seen Him you love Him; though you do not see Him you believe in Him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy. As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls (1 Peter 1:8-9).”

With this true understanding of Christianity and the implications of karma, Christians would not so casually and quickly believe in an unreal pagan “force” that they supposedly create themselves.

 

Citation:

Parts of this writing are from the Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries on the Gospel of St. Luke 10:21-24.