Our struggle is not to achieve salvation but to choose it. God saves, we choose.

The principles of our pride and self-righteous nature induce us to take the opposite attitude. We would prefer to work on our salvation ourselves and that God decides about our salvation instead of us. In other words, we tend to direct the effort of our will to deal with our behavior, instead to the acquaintance and encounter with God (Who is the only one we can receive the expected righteousness from).

Whether the process of consecration or redemption for guilt is in question, we are prone to grab that deed from God's hands into ours, and thus close ourselves for the influence of the One Who can only perform the miracle of goodness in our mind, heart and conscience.

The mentioned teaching about reincarnation is also in that aspect in the controversy with the Biblical plan of salvation. If there exists a way for man to redeem himself through the karmic process or to free himself from karma through the process of spiritual consecration, then Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was useless.

"I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." (Galatians 2:21)

Because they had neglected the authority of God's Word- the Bible, many left to their proud and self-righteous nature to create the picture about God's character and thus they got a belief that God demands of man to redeem himself for his sins by some sacrifice, merit or perhaps the process of consecration.

One young man dreamed that he was crucified on the cross of Calvary under the burden of his karma. Time went on but there was no relief. The suffering he felt on the cross did not remove his guilt but reminded him even more of the sin. And then he saw, in a distance, his Hope. In a person of wonderful and solemn appearance he recognized his Saviour. In His eyes he did not see an expected contempt and condemnation, but love and compassion. From His lips he heard the words of consolation and rescue: "Get down from the cross! It is only me who can be crucified for your sins!" The young man then got down with joy while the nightmare of his life remained on the cross of Calvary.

On the cross of Calvary the Saviour of the world has taken on Himself our karma (guilt) in order to offer us His Own (righteousness).

"Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth." (Isaiah 53:4-7)