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What does the Bible say about gambling?
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RE: What does the Bible say about gambling?
(February 27, 2012 at 3:55 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(February 27, 2012 at 3:45 pm)Godschild Wrote: Gambling is not mentioned in the Bible, however indirectly it is looked at as sinful because it is an irresponsible way of dealing with money, it takes many losers to produce a winner. The Bible does state that a man be foolish in being irresponsible with his money, and most anything called foolish in scriptures is sinful.




The bible says gamble away your entire existence, stake everything on hearsay of an unvarifiable promise of infinite reward without even the pretense of any shred of evidence to assess the odds, but only at the casino of named for one Jesus, and not anywhere else. Appearently no other casino is nearly croaked enough.

The promise is verifiable, the evidence is obvious, there is no gamble, the proof lies in the heart (soul) of those who wish to have the grace of God in their lives.
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RE: What does the Bible say about gambling?
(February 28, 2012 at 2:44 pm)Godschild Wrote: The promise is verifiable

Is it how?

Quote: the evidence is obvious

No it isn't.

Quote:there is no gamble, the proof lies in the heart (soul) of those who wish to have the grace of God in their lives.

Thats a bit a nebulous 'mean nothing' statement isnt it!
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RE: What does the Bible say about gambling?
If it were verifiable you would not need faith, if the evidence were obvious you might actually be able to point to some that existed, and if we're going by what lies in the heart or soul of christians, well, pedophile pastors, remember?
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RE: What does the Bible say about gambling?
(February 28, 2012 at 9:27 am)Xavier Wrote:
(February 27, 2012 at 3:45 pm)Godschild Wrote: Gambling is not mentioned in the Bible, however indirectly it is looked at as sinful because it is an irresponsible way of dealing with money, it takes many losers to produce a winner. The Bible does state that a man be foolish in being irresponsible with his money, and most anything called foolish in scriptures is sinful.

Does that mean if you win you're not sinning then as you're not being foolish in that case? Smile

No, that would be results-oriented magical thinking. Your gambling has to be +EV for it to be not foolish.

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