Where There's a Will ...

 

The wheel of karma

A Chinese student asks me if I believe in fate. He says everyone in his class does.

This is interesting, and I’ve pondered it before. There are not many theists in China. Yet even those who do not believe in God believe in fate: in karma. They believe in karma throughout East and South Asia.

Yet how can there be fate without God? Fate implies the existence of a cosmic, omnipotent and omniscient will. Without a God, the universe should be random and meaningless. There should be no justice.

My student, presented with this assertion, agrees.

In other words, everyone is really a theist. All believe in God’s existence, and all see God as a will; which is to say, a person.  We are divided only by semantic confusion. And by denial of what we know in our hearts to be true.