Although Christianity distinguishes a "punishing God", this aspect of God actually oversees and drives the law of karma. God does not directly punish, but self-punishment occurs. When the deceased, freed from his/her physical body, looks at his/her life from a causal awareness, he/she finds where he/she has transgressed this law of Oneness. Then he/she can immediately experience the pain he/she has caused the other. If this proves sufficient, a realization follows, so that this act no longer needs to be dealt with in the next incarnation. If the realization does not occur, then in the next incarnation, the person will reciprocate in some form or become the sufferer of a similar act. If the deceased escapes the ...