Motivation is paramount. If they came out and said "I was evil, and I repent of everything I've done, and I will do whatever I can to make amends" and then acted in concert with that by relinquishing all power, influence and perks, and then just abandoning wealth and going into some place to serve the people there as a normal human, then I'd give them a pass.
But here is the thing. Although Karma gets talked about a lot, the fact is, in the Western Christian world, we haven't really had a very clear or detailed theory around karma-like spiritual realities. It's mostly always been all or nothing. (You get to go to heaven or you get to go to hell.)
But the reality is, in my view, that our actions directly results in a spiritual inertia, generates either a toxic or a health-inducing form of energy that both affects the development (or degradation) of our spiritual capacity but ALSO ties us more closely to either the source of good - God or the source of evil - Satan.
It's like moving in one direction or the other. So just because you turn around and repent, it doesn't mean that the spiritual baggage you have generated is liquidated in a second. you still have to burn it off. If you had close bonds to evil, it will take a lot of work to disintegrate those connections.
Note that I'm not discounting or naysaying the power of redemption through Christ. Yes, we are forgiven of our sins when we accept Christ, but.... how free are we of the impacts of how we have lived? Accepting Christ removes the legal hold that Satan had over our spirits, but in many, many cases, we still need to work hard to extricate ourselves from our own concepts, feelings and behaviors that were part of the bonds that tied us to evil.
In other words, I'm saying even if Soros and Schwab actually repented, well, they'd still have a lot of evil residue they'd have to work off. Still, I don't really see that happening very soon... ;P
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Motivation is paramount. If they came out and said "I was evil, and I repent of everything I've done, and I will do whatever I can to make amends" and then acted in concert with that by relinquishing all power, influence and perks, and then just abandoning wealth and going into some place to serve the people there as a normal human, then I'd give them a pass.
But here is the thing. Although Karma gets talked about a lot, the fact is, in the Western Christian world, we haven't really had a very clear or detailed theory around karma-like spiritual realities. It's mostly always been all or nothing. (You get to go to heaven or you get to go to hell.)
But the reality is, in my view, that our actions directly results in a spiritual inertia, generates either a toxic or a health-inducing form of energy that both affects the development (or degradation) of our spiritual capacity but ALSO ties us more closely to either the source of good - God or the source of evil - Satan.
It's like moving in one direction or the other. So just because you turn around and repent, it doesn't mean that the spiritual baggage you have generated is liquidated in a second. you still have to burn it off. If you had close bonds to evil, it will take a lot of work to disintegrate those connections.
Note that I'm not discounting or naysaying the power of redemption through Christ. Yes, we are forgiven of our sins when we accept Christ, but.... how free are we of the impacts of how we have lived? Accepting Christ removes the legal hold that Satan had over our spirits, but in many, many cases, we still need to work hard to extricate ourselves from our own concepts, feelings and behaviors that were part of the bonds that tied us to evil.
In other words, I'm saying even if Soros and Schwab actually repented, well, they'd still have a lot of evil residue they'd have to work off. Still, I don't really see that happening very soon... ;P