down school levies which might make their taxes go up a hundred bucks or so a year but buy a thousand dollars worth of lottery tickets a year and claim they're helping the schools by buying them? Especially since you may not be helping your school directly. So why not just pay less in taxes and stop offending God.
2007-11-17 15:07:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
who says christians are gambling at the lottery?
if thier gambling their probably christians in name only(CINO)
2007-11-17 15:13:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If gambling is a sin, how come CATHOLIC churches have casino nights (Monte Carlo Nights) and run bingo games??? Gambling is not a sin.... Just because a FEW extreme bible toting people SAY that it is a sin, doesn't make it so. In certain states, gambling is against the LAW, but in most others it is NOT and in a LOT of states there ARE state run lotteries that are SUPPOSED to BE for education... No one is offending God by buying a few lottery tickets now and then. What IS bad is when people become addicted to buying lotto tickets or going to casinos or betting the horses or whatever form of gambling one can become addicted to. Not all people who buy tickets or go to casinos or bet on horses or sports are addicted.
2007-11-17 23:16:43 · answer #2 · answered by LittleBarb 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gambling is not mentioned in the Bible as being a sin. The only incident of gambling that I know of is when Samson made a bet with the people of his future wife. Other than that the subject is not addressed.
Judges 14:12 And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes, 13 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it." 14 And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And in three days they could not solve the riddle. 15 On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?" 16 And Samson's wife wept over him and said, "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?" 17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle."
Other than this story, the closest mention of gambling is this proverb.
Proverbs 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
What would be a sin is for people to say that they trust that the Lord will provide for the schools when they had been given the means to provide for the schools themselves. That would be the sin of presumption and of testing the Lord.
2007-11-17 23:13:18 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why not indeed. Voting against school levies is a sure thing to hurt your community.
2007-11-17 23:19:20 · answer #4 · answered by wonderingwhy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you think it is a sin to gamble????? I don't think I have that one on my list...........
Can you quote me chapter and verse.....any version of the Bible??????
2007-11-17 23:10:58 · answer #5 · answered by Judy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There's this little thing called BINGO...
2007-11-17 23:15:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋