can they co-exist together?

The reason I ask, is because I am a christian, though I still believe in Karma. I know a lot of people in my circle of church goers would disagree....

I don't know much about Karma, or even it's origin, however, what I do know, the good for good and bad for bad gets rewarded accordingly.

what are your thoughts on this?

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Karma (in my tradition anyway) simply means that you get back what you put out. If you do things with a negative intent, then that negative energy comes back to you. If you do things with a positive intent, that positive energy comes back to you. It's not reward and punishment, it's spiritual physics - for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you push, you get pushed back. If you hug, you get hugged back. The push back or the hug back may not come from the one you pushed or hugged, but it will come.
In the Wiccan tradition, there is the threefold rule - whatever you do to another, good or bad, comes back to you three times.

Christianity has a similar concept - isn't there a verse somewhere in the Bible about reaping what you sow?

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Christianity is also about treating others like you want to be treated.

Karma is what goes around, comes around. If you are mean to people, than in return people are going to be mean to you.

But if you treat most people in a christian loving and respectful way, they will return the jesture. (usually).

The bible also says "an eye for eye".

I don't see how the Golden Rule is really any different than Karma - they seem to me like two facets of the same jewel. Treating others as you want to be treated is acting with positive intent, which generates positive Karma.

I read somewhere that under the Code of Hammurabi, "an eye for an eye" was not the required punishment, but the maximum punishment. In other words, if your neighbor put your eye out, the most you could do to him in return was to put his eye out. You couldn't put both his eyes out, break both his arms and legs, rape his wife, sell his childern into slavery, poison his dog, and burn his house down because he poked you in the eye.

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When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!
Any time God closes one door, She always opens another, even though sometimes it's Hell in the hallway.
Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die. (Klingon proverb)
Don't point. You'll poke holes in the air and all the faeries will escape.

I don't believe that karma is in opposition to christianity at all. Of course, it might depend on the "brand" of christianity. If you're talking your normal, average christian, I think they would recognize karma as something that fits right into their belief system. If you're talking about your head-in-the-sand fundamentalist, literalist christian, then I think they believe only what they want to believe and any other concept is just plain wrong.

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