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This
week I came across several writings regarding the difference
between Karma and the biblical statement of "as you sow, so
shall you reap." At first glance they would appear to be the
same teaching but as with so many things religions have
complicated their understanding.
This is from ibelieve.com ... "On a surface level perspective,
karma bridges the gap between good actions (or intentions) and
good results as well as bad actions (or intentions) and bad
results. Essentially, what a person reaps in this life can be a
consequence of what they sowed in their previous lives. What a
person sows now, they will reap in a future life. And karma can
accumulate, giving you a chance to balance out positive or
negative consequences."
Interesting thought, but in reality, we are always living in the
Now (in this moment) with the consciousness that we possess in
the Now.
When we take religion out of out intention to understand karma
and sowing and reaping we can look at the two concepts with
greater intelligence. Imagine if you will that you are
living through this life with something negative from a previous
life hanging over your head. Yet, very
few, and I mean very few, people actually remember their
previous lives. How unfair that would be to be punished or
rewarded for something we have no memory of.
To think or believe this is a contradiction of the Intelligence
that rules through Law. To teach that we are rewarded or
punished in a future life is to accept religion's false teaching
of a heaven and a hell.
Reading further in the article from ibelieve.com we can read "in
sowing and reaping we see that Jesus Christ did the work for us"
... Oy! Religion makes itself a joke. Why do intelligent people
continue to support this kind of false theology? Most
likely because it allows them to, in their mind, escape the
responsibility for their actions and words.
The final statement in the article "we are justified by faith"
is cringe worthy. Faith divorced from intelligence is a fairytale
of confusion.
Keep the Faith!
Henry Lee Bates
(Reverend Dr.)
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