If you are rich today, and do not serve nor act humbly you shall lose your wealth and be miserable. Once you taste suffering you will be back humble.
Is this true? OR is this is this fiction?
IF you live a life what you want to be, will not then in the next life you will
suffer or suffer in hell?
OR must you suffer hell in this life, so you can be exalted in the next life?
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“Reap what you sow” is man’s interpretation of God’s law of compensation, karma. God is just. His laws, perfect. We are at a hard scool, called life. Some have very easy lives, some full of trials and sufferings. I believe in reincarnation, so I think those who live easy lives
earned it. Those suffering must learn their lessons, the errors of the past had visited them in this present life and must pay for them. It is not punishment, it is compensation for ther deeds. If God granted you riches in this life, make good use of it, so it will not be taken away from you.
In your next life, you will be rewarded or compensated according to what you do in this life. You choose the path. Me? I want to learn all my lessons now and suffer or enjoy the results. As Jesus’ prayer says, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. Everything is according to God’s laws.
After seeing you the first reply, I have come to a conclusion that you are definely a religious man. Like a black hat and a long gray beard and bowing you head to the wall of the muslim shrine.
Fiction.
Ontology + Desire For Revenge = Fake-Assked-Karmic-Idealism & A Judgment Day Which Never Comes.
I think what the bible says about being humble is true in this life, not just in the life to come. If you speak well of yourself all the time, other people don’t like it, and they talk about your failings, until you are humbled.
On the other hand, if you are humble and honest about your failings, other people might be willing to talk well about you, and you’d then be exalted.
It gives an example in the bible. It says that if you go to somebody else’s meal, and seat yourself in the most important position, you will be told to move, and so you’d be humiliated. However, it’s best to sit in the least important place. Then friends will see you and tell you to come and sit in a position of higher status, and so you would be exalted.
Thomas á Kempis
EVERY man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars. He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men.
If I knew all things in the world and had not charity, what would it profit me before God Who will judge me by my deeds?
Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise.
Many words do not satisfy the soul; but a good life eases the mind and a clean conscience inspires great trust in God.
The more you know and the better you understand, the more severely will you be judged, unless your life is also the more holy. Do not be proud, therefore, because of your learning or skill. Rather, fear because of the talent given you. If you think you know many things and understand them well enough, realize at the same time that there is much you do not know. Hence, do not affect wisdom, but admit your ignorance. Why prefer yourself to anyone else when many are more learned, more cultured than you?
If you wish to learn and appreciate something worth while, then love to be unknown and considered as nothing. Truly to know and despise self is the best and most perfect counsel. To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom. Wherefore, if you see another sin openly or commit a serious crime, do not consider yourself better, for you do not know how long you can remain in good estate. All men are frail, but you must admit that none is more frail than yourself.
[i]One who boasts is not established;
One who shows himself off does not become prominent;
One who puts himself on display doe not brightly shine;
One who brags about himself gets no credit;
One who praises himself does not long endure.
In the Way, such things are called:
“Surplus food and redundant action.”
And with things - there are those who hate them.
Therefore, the one with the Way in them does not dwell.
Tao Te Ching - chp. 24[/i]