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Karma sounds simple. But in reality, one cause rarely leads to just a single effect. Instead, each cause and each effect are intertwined with many others, causing a long chain of complicated interactions that aren't predictable. So it's naïve to expect that you can do something good and receive the result you hope for, or that when you do something bad you'll only experience a consequence that you can predict. No matter how hard you may try to control the process of cause and effect, your attempts are in vain in this complicated world where all people are connected in ways that can easily result in unpredictable outcomes.
Since God is perfect, His standards reflect perfection, which is impossible for fallen human beings to achieve. Karma is the futile effort of trying to earn enough good karma to achieve salvation with God. But good works never work when it comes to salvation. One cannot earn their way to heaven. You can't free yourself from sin, no matter how hard you may try to do so. Jesus said we owe a debt we can't pay. But He did, on the cross for us.
Recognize how other people's karma affects your own.
Karma is contagious.You receive some of the effects caused by other people's choices, even when you don't want that to happen. Your own choices affect other people in either good or bad ways, whether or not you intend for that to happen. What happens in other people's lives crashes over into yours, and vice versa. So you can't truly be the master of your own destiny with karma.
Since karma loads you up with responsibility for everything you cause, it saddles you with a huge debt you can't pay because all people cause more trouble than they can make up for in this fallen world.
We must turn to the only one who's ever lived with perfect karma.
Jesus is the only One who has ever lived a perfect human life. Only Jesus has the power to take your imperfect karma and forgive the debt you owe because of it.
Jesus offers to forgive your karma debt by absorbing it into Himself through His sacrificial death on the cross. Jesus paid for your sins and makes your salvation possible if you accept His forgiveness.
Since God is perfect, His standards reflect perfection, which is impossible for fallen human beings to achieve. Karma is the futile effort of trying to earn enough good karma to achieve salvation with God. But good works never work when it comes to salvation. One cannot earn their way to heaven. You can't free yourself from sin, no matter how hard you may try to do so. Jesus said we owe a debt we can't pay. But He did, on the cross for us.
Recognize how other people's karma affects your own.
Karma is contagious.You receive some of the effects caused by other people's choices, even when you don't want that to happen. Your own choices affect other people in either good or bad ways, whether or not you intend for that to happen. What happens in other people's lives crashes over into yours, and vice versa. So you can't truly be the master of your own destiny with karma.
Since karma loads you up with responsibility for everything you cause, it saddles you with a huge debt you can't pay because all people cause more trouble than they can make up for in this fallen world.
We must turn to the only one who's ever lived with perfect karma.
Jesus is the only One who has ever lived a perfect human life. Only Jesus has the power to take your imperfect karma and forgive the debt you owe because of it.
Jesus offers to forgive your karma debt by absorbing it into Himself through His sacrificial death on the cross. Jesus paid for your sins and makes your salvation possible if you accept His forgiveness.
@usher I believe we cannot "part out" the Bible. We either believe all of it, or none at all. The Bible is "God-breathed". We know God is incapable of error or lying, so we can rely on His Word to be the Truth. He is trust-WORTHY. It is the New Testament which describes heaven. We know the Old Testament is literal, by all the Old Testament prophecies that have been fulfilled.
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@LadyGrace I think you need to know about the origins of the bible in the 3rd Century AD. How it was put together by certain individuals might give you some idea of how it came about. There are a lot of different bible interpretations with slight differences and is an exact copy of the Jewish Torah. The Jewish Torah has changed significantly since but it is almost the same up to the Old testament of course.
@usher I'm very familiar with that, yes. It matters not only what we believe, but why. The bible was inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Greek word being "theopneustos", meaning "God-breathed", inspired by God, due to the inspiration of God. Words not entrusted to just any men, but to [b]holy men of old[/b], to write down under the direction and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Thank God, no one has to know how to read Greek, Hebrew, or any other language, in order to know how to be saved. Bible scholars have translated those languages, for us.
Under the direction of men, yes, you're going to find spelling errors, translation errors, what have you, as man is flawed by sin, however, Jesus is without sin, perfect, and flawless. Man has tried to destroy His Word, burn it, deny it, mock it, ridicule it, yet it has survived all the way down through the ages, which in itself is a miracle, because while some papers may have been destroyed, God and His Word shall never pass away. So while we could dispute these things until we're blue in the face, let us not miss the main focus, which is how to get to heaven, because if we miss that important truth, we've missed everything. "For what shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet loses his own soul?" Mark 8:36
The bible is as up to date as tomorrow's newspaper. No other book of any kind, can tell our future with precise 100% accuracy, like the bible does. It was not coincidental.
Under the direction of men, yes, you're going to find spelling errors, translation errors, what have you, as man is flawed by sin, however, Jesus is without sin, perfect, and flawless. Man has tried to destroy His Word, burn it, deny it, mock it, ridicule it, yet it has survived all the way down through the ages, which in itself is a miracle, because while some papers may have been destroyed, God and His Word shall never pass away. So while we could dispute these things until we're blue in the face, let us not miss the main focus, which is how to get to heaven, because if we miss that important truth, we've missed everything. "For what shall it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet loses his own soul?" Mark 8:36
The bible is as up to date as tomorrow's newspaper. No other book of any kind, can tell our future with precise 100% accuracy, like the bible does. It was not coincidental.
@usher Some of the stories are given simply, so we can better understand them. For examples of what to do when faced with certain circumstances in life, but the whole bible can be applied to our life and was meant as God's Roadmap For Life. We are no longer under the Old Testament laws or bound by them. I, too, enjoy the New Testament. The Old is helpful in bible study and reference, but I'm like you...I am more into the New Testament, which is God's New Covenant with His people. The O.T. is more history. The New is certainly the best inspiration.