Looking to become catholic.. Maybe?

[Kamtre]

Hi.


Nice to see you following where the Spirit leads you.

Everyone said so much and so many good resources.
Just wanted to help you understand that karma is not a Christian doctrine.
It is more Buddhist I do believe.
Karma comes back around as in reincarnation.

Penance is in the Bible.

And I wish you the very best, and God Bless.

Lol, karma as in what goes around comes around.. the sorta beleif that God makes it all even in the end, that sorta thing.. i stole it from the buddhists!!! MUHAHAHA!! LOL

 

[Brother Simon]

I recommend looking into Christian history as well. This is what really drew me into my Catholicism. Our bishops and our faith can be traced all the way back to the apostles. You can read about the Church in the 1st century, the 2nd century, up until now, and see that it is the same Church that believes in the same thing.

Someone will probably have the quote, but I do not know who said it, but it's along the lines of: "To delve deep into history is to cease to be protestant." If you follow the history logically... there is no other choice.

With love,
Simon

 

[Markh]

If you do a bit of research you can see pope Benedict whacking the belief in Karma.

Sounds nice at the first instance, but where is the mercy and compassion?

Even earthly rulers have gone beyond absolute proportionality in punishing crime, even we understand how unfair it is.

Karma in the first therefore discounts any mercy, it is un-loving and impersonal. they are not attributes of Jesus Christ.

The Catholic Church is an infallible and has already answered your questions. It is now for you just a job of of prayer, correspondance with the grace of God through humility and careful study. All are necessary for conversion.

 

[Kamtre]

K, well thanks for your advice everyone.. I'm pretty much sure Im gonna go thru with initiation and such.. And lol, i don't beleive in karma as a force or as most people beleive it to be.. I beleive it as in.. If I do something along the line bad, then sometime along the line, God's gonna whack me for it, whether I realize it or not, same sorta thing with good things I do.. There's no biblical support for it, but its basically what goes around comes around..

 

[QuantaCura]

If I do something along the line bad, then sometime along the line, God's gonna whack me for it...There's no biblical support for it

Sure there is

Heb. 12:5 And you have forgotten the consolation, which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord; neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. 6 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth; and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7 Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct? 8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons. 9 Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh, for instructors, and we reverenced them: shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits, and live? 10 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. 11 Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield, to them that are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of justice.

 

[PoliticalGuru]

That quote is by Cardinal Newman, a notable Anglican convert to Catholcism in the 19th Century.

 

[Markh]

the big difference obviously for us is that, on earth God never really gives us what we deserve. Justice required the damnation of the human race. That would have been karma for any mortal sin any of us ever commits!

But no, God is merciful and his punishments are of an indirect proportionality and sometimes completely delayed so that we may have time to repent and avert the punishment altogether.