If our transgressions and sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we live?
Repent and put your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ TODAY!
“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
I don't know. That post was in no way a declaration of knowledge in any way, shape, or form. And yes, thats why karma seems shitty. Why do i have to pay for something and i don't know what it is? Seems to easily manipulated. Again, who could say?
Karma is just a way that non-Christians deal with the "problem of evil", which is (admittedly) what theologians will admit is the best argument for the non-existence of God.
Logically, karma a shitty way to respond to the problem of evil, and it's shoehorned into things as a way to also explain aspects of reincarnation.
Im leaning towards that being the way. Reincarnation. It just makes sense.
Reincarnation? One of the issues with it, is that there isn't very much evidence for past lives. That is, when people say that they used to be specific people, or even more generically, that they had a certain profession or lived in a certain place/time, the facts they give are either generalizable such than anyone can look it up and claim such things, or when under hypnosis they claim certain things, those can't be verified.
There is evidence for "inherited memory" but there is also scientific evidence that genetics plays a role here as much as anything else, because they have been able to make the offspring of certain mice afraid of certain things by implanting that strongly enough in the parents such that they pass it on.
Not that made-for-tv-movie style reincarnation. The brain wipe liife after life after life ad infinitum kind.
You know how they say if you kill yourself, you automatically go to hell? You also know how everything they say, usually the truth is the opposite? What if suicide gets you out of this misery loop we call "life on earth?"