Did God create karma?

Question

As everyone knows what goes around comes around. but why? For example: let's say a person is making fun of somebody else that is overweight. 10yrs later that person who thought being fat was so funny is now the size of a killer baby whale, someone that cheated on their wife/husband with another lover and begins to fall in love the other lover only to find that the lover is cheating on them too, or a guy refuses to take care of his kid because he hates his baby momma and he falls in love with another woman (has a child with her) only to find that the love of his life cheated on him and the kid he's been caring for isn't his. These are just mere examples of the karma I'm talkin about. Do you think God created this?If so why? Is it to make life a little more fair? I know good and bad things happen to everyone but I'm just talkin about karma. Bad things that happen because we deserve it from doing something wrong in the past. Please if you don't believe in God just skip this question.

Answer 1

Actually, what you're talking about is irony, not Karma. Irony is when an outcome is opposite of what might be expected, like the person making fun of fat people becoming fat themselves. (This often appeals to our sense of "justice.")

Karma is a spiritual principle that says basically the world you experience is the result of your actions. It's based on this line of reasoning:
1.) What you perceive in the world around you depends on how you choose to interpret the signals that are coming in through your nervous system (you ignore or overlook lots of things that are happening around you, but that doesn't mean they don't happen, just that they don't affect you).
2.) How you interpret the signals coming in depends on what you believe about the world and about yourself. For example, if you believe in UFO's, and you see a strange light in the sky, you think it's an alien spacecraft. If you believe there's a big government conspiracy to control you, that same light will be a "top secret" craft that's monitoring your activities. If you believe stars appear in the sky to signal some great event in the world, you will see a sign of such an event, etc.
3.) Your actions will be consistent with what you believe. Thus, if you tend to lie to people, it indicates that you believe lying is OK, and happens all the time. If you believe this, you expect the people around you to lie to you as well. That means, you live in a world of dishonest people. Whether they're really dishonest or not , you will perceive their actions as being dishonest because of #1 & 2, above.

So to answer your question, it's not so much like God uses karma to pass judgement; instead it's something that's inherent to the way human beings work. In that sense it is "created" by God.

Answer 2

Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म from the root kṛ, "to do") is a word of ancient origin meaning action or activity and its subsequent results (also called karma-phala, "the fruits of action"). It is commonly understood as a term to denote the entire cycle of cause and effect as described in the philosophies of a number of Dharmic Religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma


For every action there is a reaction. If one chooses to sleep around unprotected, just by the law of numbers eventually (some take longer than others) you will get some sort of STD. God doesn't dish out STDs. He is an all-loving God. You brought that on yourself.

God does bless us for the good we do but it has nothing to do with Karma. Like others before me said "Its the sowing and reaping" principle. Satan likes to get his foot in door with little white lies like God created Karma. Be careful not to grab hold of ideas that do not originate from the Bible. (Assuming you are a Christian)

Answer 3

What you are talking about is cause and effect, but slightly confused it with chance. Karma as cause and effect is this: if you fall off a building, you will hit the ground. The one causes the other.

But as for chance, it is slightly different. In your analogy of one person cheating on the other, then that other person falling in love with the one being cheated with, involves complex situations in life which as they unfold before one person, seems like chance, but as a whole, seems proper.

Take for example a soap opera: one character thinks everything that happens is chance and perhaps as you said, karma. But the story as a whole sees it as fate. Everything happened is fated to happen, because it was written like that.

Now in real life, chance is only something that one person can say because he/she does not have all the information. If you find 20 dollars on the street, you could easily say it was chance, or even karma because you were nice the other day, but in reality it was because somebody dropped the money and you were there to find it.

As for God creating karma, you should think as follows: The ever changing current of events in life is Fate, the rewards and punishments which can be seen as cause and effects, is Karma, the binding of actions with their Fate. In other words, you do good, you get good. You do bad, you get bad.

However, there is a more exhalted form, usually called Providence. this is God's single view of reality, which can encompass all of Fate and Karma in its grasps. In a sense, God writes his providence, and all that is to happen is fated to happen, for the same reason that the script writer creates his soap opera script.

However, since we exist in time, we do not see that fate, so we actually do have free will, otherwise crimes and rewards would be the same thing, which they are not. Because there are rewards and punishments, it is proof that we have free will, but in a philosophical sense, it could be seen that God's immeditate understanding is set in stone, but what is more important can be viewed like this: You were born a human being, so it was fate that you were born free.

You had to have been a human being because you are one. And because a human being is free, it was fate that allowed you to be free.

And finally, in a more spiritual sense, it was the simplicity of providence that allowed you to be a loving human being.

Answer 4

There is no karma and there is no god, so your question is doubly pointless. I don't believe in god, but I'm going to answer your question anyway, I don't like people telling me what questions I am allowed to answer.

You say "everyone knows what goes around comes around" Really? How do you know that? Prove it to me.
Blanket generalizations offered without proof are meaningless and are one sign of an uneducated mind.
You use as examples for "proof" several completely hypothetical situations, and are more in the realm of irony than karma. Obviously you've never taken a science class, or a debating or logic class as you have no argument at all to prove your point.

Belief in karma, a hindu concept is just as delusional as belief in heaven, a christian concept. Better to drop both, and accept reality, rather than believe in delusion

Answer 5

Karma if you see without Re-birth is incomplete.

Good people suffer and bad people enjoy...why? life and death is a continuous cycle as per hinduism and the paradox of karma is incomplete without re-birth

If I have done bad deed ...and my positive energies of this birth stopped the fruits of that bad Karma...the negativity can not die...as Energy is imperishable. It will come back to us in next birth

Why some people are born rich, some poor, some wise and some idiots...some religious and some atheists ..all these things can not be decided by Genes alone !!

Answer 6

No. Both God and Karma are human concepts and were invented by man.

Answer 7

karma is created by God.

"The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. " Isaiah 40:28

Well.. I don't know.. God the Creator knows what He is doing. We don't have to care so much and our job is just to Love God.

However, the horrible things to stated was just "For example". So, what's the problem.

Answer 8

To keep the balance in Creation. Righting wrongs. Have we ever considered
that some karma is God answering our prayers. Us "wanting" to get
even?

Answer 9

I think God just framed rules and karma is just a manifestation of the rules. Just to create a balance in the Universe, these things automatically happen and they do justice to His Creation.

Answer 10

I believe in the living God and Karma doesn't have anything to do with it. It's like luck. I don't need luck. I have the living God.

What the Holy Bible tells us that we reap what we sow.