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		<title>By: Greg Bulmash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>True Karma is about living a good life so your next life is good and so you can learn the lessons of life to help you reach enlightenment.  Karma takes a long time to work and usually isn't so quick.

Sharon Stone's Karma is more the "My Name Is Earl" brand of Karma which is a sort of Westernized equating of Karma with the last few words of Galatians 6:7: "for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."  

If you want to go Old Testament, then we have Hosea 8:7: "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

But the thing here is not that I'm saying that she's right.  I'm saying that anyone who claims she isn't, but also claims to belive in the infallibility of scripture is a hypocrite.  

There's nothing in the Bible that says a punishment from God &lt;b&gt;requires&lt;/b&gt; a harbinger to make prophecy of the coming doom.  It's not like people who lived thousands of miles from Noah were even dimly aware of his ark-building or prophecies of the flood, yet they died all the same.

When Lot was rescued from Sodom by the angels, they didn't go tell all the Sodomites to flee.  They just rescued Lot and his family, told them not to look back, and let everyone else in Sodom die.

How do we know that some angels didn't come in and save one family in the stricken province, and leave everyone else to die?  I'm sure if some Chinese family started claiming that, the government would have them shot or carted off to a prison camp before any media got wind of it.  The Chinese government would suppress any proof that this was divine retribution.

I said it before and I'll say it again.  I'm not saying she's right.  I'm just saying that if you believe in the infallibility of scripture, you're obligated to admit the possibility of her being right or you have to re-examine your faith.

Personally, I'd like to see lots of people questioning their belief in the infallibility of scripture than agreeing with Sharon Stone.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True Karma is about living a good life so your next life is good and so you can learn the lessons of life to help you reach enlightenment.  Karma takes a long time to work and usually isn't so quick.</p>
<p>Sharon Stone's Karma is more the "My Name Is Earl" brand of Karma which is a sort of Westernized equating of Karma with the last few words of Galatians 6:7: "for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."  </p>
<p>If you want to go Old Testament, then we have Hosea 8:7: "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."</p>
<p>But the thing here is not that I'm saying that she's right.  I'm saying that anyone who claims she isn't, but also claims to belive in the infallibility of scripture is a hypocrite.  </p>
<p>There's nothing in the Bible that says a punishment from God <b>requires</b> a harbinger to make prophecy of the coming doom.  It's not like people who lived thousands of miles from Noah were even dimly aware of his ark-building or prophecies of the flood, yet they died all the same.</p>
<p>When Lot was rescued from Sodom by the angels, they didn't go tell all the Sodomites to flee.  They just rescued Lot and his family, told them not to look back, and let everyone else in Sodom die.</p>
<p>How do we know that some angels didn't come in and save one family in the stricken province, and leave everyone else to die?  I'm sure if some Chinese family started claiming that, the government would have them shot or carted off to a prison camp before any media got wind of it.  The Chinese government would suppress any proof that this was divine retribution.</p>
<p>I said it before and I'll say it again.  I'm not saying she's right.  I'm just saying that if you believe in the infallibility of scripture, you're obligated to admit the possibility of her being right or you have to re-examine your faith.</p>
<p>Personally, I'd like to see lots of people questioning their belief in the infallibility of scripture than agreeing with Sharon Stone.</p>
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		<title>By: basic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maybe, but this was no prophetic pronouncement. She was talking about karma as a "natural law" of the universe. A punishment from God is different, which He does according to his plan and purpose. This might be a repercussion of their (China) actions, but either way, what she is saying is something total different.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe, but this was no prophetic pronouncement. She was talking about karma as a "natural law" of the universe. A punishment from God is different, which He does according to his plan and purpose. This might be a repercussion of their (China) actions, but either way, what she is saying is something total different.</p>
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