why do christians say they dont believe in karma when you reap what you sow is direct reference to it?

Answer 1

They don't believe in karma because all the biblical references to reincarnation were either removed or perverted by intentional misinterpretation. Founders of the Christian church realized they would never get rich - and never have complete authority over their followers - if they permitted reincarnation to be understood.

Answer 2

Because Karma takes a wrong turn after it starts at the precept of the "law of the harvest". Karma teaches that not only do you reap what you sow in this life but that in one of the many cycles of ongoing reincarnations you will reap what you have sown in this life.

Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also will reap. 8 For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And to those who look for Him He shall appear the second time without sin to salvation.

Answer 3

They believe in Karma but many of them don't believe in reincarnation. The meaning of Karma is a bit misunderstood. Karma(literally actions, in our language) does not limit itself to other lives it's about this life too. I'm an Indian Hindu, I believe in Karma(you reap what you sow) in that sense but I don't believe that I have to "pay" for the sins of my previous lives. Results of Karma are obviously there but I don't think it's related to reincarnation.

Answer 4

Is it because it is rather a immature religion?

Enjoy this:
RECYCLING
SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV

If you look up in the sky during the day, you see the Sun. That becomes the most dominant in your experience. In the night, if you look up, the stars become very dominant in your experience, but both the Sun and the stars — in fact, the Sun happens to be a star, too — look like puny little things when compared to the immense vastness of the sky. Generally, though, the sky is never in your conscious perception. So, true existence can be likened to the vastness of the sky. The Sun, the stars, you and me, are all just small happenings, very brief happenings, really.
Today, science is telling you that even the Sun has a lifespan. Eventually, it will burn itself out. As you are burning your life out, similarly, the Sun is burning his life out, too. Your normal temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit; the Sun's normal temperature is some 98 million degrees, but he also has a lifespan and, one day, he will exist no longer. So whatever you see as physical existence is just a small happening. The true existence is the vastness, the emptiness that is there, the space.

What you call a person is just like a bubble. This bubble doesn't have any substance of its own. The air was there, all around. It just created a shell around itself, so suddenly it has a different quality of its own. There are thick bubbles, there are thin bubbles, there are strong bubbles, there are weak bubbles, big, small, just like people. Just like every other creature too, but when the bubble bursts, the substance that is inside the bubble, where is it? The air has reclaimed it; the atmosphere has reclaimed it. Similarly, a bubble is formed in the form of an etheric body, in the form of a pranic body, a mental body and a physical body. The physical body we can shoot down any moment we want to. It is within our power to just cut the physical body in two if we want to, but the other bodies we are not able to cut. Only what you call as existence, only that can do it.

What you are calling the spiritual process is just that. It is a deeper way of ensuring you don't exist anymore. This is not about killing the physical body. You are trying to destroy the very fundamentals of creating the body within you. You are trying to destroy the very fundamental structure over which a body can form. The physical body is possible only because of the necessary karmic substances that are there in the form of etheric, pranic and mental bodies.

So you are trying to destroy that through the spiritual process. With your awareness, practices, love, and with your devotion, all you are trying to do is destroy the possibility of taking on another body, destroy the very foundation over which the physical body can happen. Or, in other words, we are trying to take away the possibility of you going through the recycling bin over and over again. A mother's womb is only a recycling bag. Again and again... we're going through the same process. So we want to take that away.

Answer 5

First of all, this is one of the most taken out of context verses in scripture. A you see, even us Christians are guilty of it:

Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also will reap. 8 For he sowing to his flesh will reap corruption from the flesh. But he sowing to the Spirit will reap life everlasting from the Spirit.

Paul here is talking about giving:

6Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor.

Offerings.

And they take out of context the rest of what he says here. Making it seem that Paul is talking about sin. He is not. He is talking about where you place your value.

Sowing to the flesh, is spending your money on things that have no eternal value. In our day that would be video games, CD's, new clothes- all things that we live with, not necessarily bad things, nothing wrong with new stuff, but they have no value in eternity.

Those that give to the teacher who taught them spiritually sow to eternity. This doesn't mean that you have to hurt yourself in giving- like giving it all, but that's why God claimed a tithe of all that you have. He put a limit on the giving, and promised to bless you with what you have left over.

That's something that gets overlooked. FYI.

Answer 6

Christians believe they are "saved," because of what Jesus did for them. They go to Heaven, and live on earth only once.


In Hinduism, you are on your own. You may be assisted by gods, but how good or bad you are in this life determines where you will be in the next incarnation. It takes a multitude of earthly incarnations before a Hindu reaches Nirvana.

"Reaping what you sow," refers to this life on earth.

Answer 7

You have it backwards. Gods' word came before bad karma. Get The bible and open it to Galatians chap 6 vs 6-8. (The One who who sows to please his sinful nature, will reap destruction.) (The One who sows to please The Spirit, will reap eternal Life ,){Heaven} This is taken from a modern English language version of The Bible. The Bible is Gods' Word. God always existed. What he is saying, is if you give in to your sinful nature, and seek pleasure and self gratification, you will perish (Hell). If you listen to your Spirit(THe Holy Spirit {GOD})who gives us Faith and Grace, in times of need. We will live forever.(Heaven). We obtain grace and faith by praying to His Son Our Lord Jesus Christ. We Must believe that Jesus is our ONE and Only "ONE" way to Heaven. That He died for One reason, to redeem us from our sins. We Must believe this. The Only way to The Father is through The Son. That Jesus is part of The Holy Trinity, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit (Who Lives within us), ONE God Three Divine Persons. I do believe this Sincerely.

Answer 8

I think Christians believe in something like karma, but don't summarise it in one single word.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

In the Christian faith, God is the rewarder but karma involves something else