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If you win MONEY from GAMBLING can you consider that a BLESSING? email this discussion to a friend?

myLot reputation of 80/100. yana0806 (507)2 years ago

what's your idea about it?


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owlwings (2057) response was accepted on 9/22/2007.
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1. myLot reputation of 97/100. trinidadvelasco (7679)   2 years ago

Of course, that too, is a blessing, that is, if you are not a habitual gambler. There are some people I know who are lucky in gambling. They normally win some amounts which help them in coping with day to day expenses.

The luckier ones, though, are those who win sizeable amounts even if they hardly indulge in gambling. These are those people who happen to hit it at the lotto or the sweepstakes. I should consider an occurrence like this to be a real blessing because, it will spell a much different life for the person who won. From this moment on, if he knows how to handle his finances properly, life maybe lived comfortably till his dying day.

 
2. myLot reputation of 91/100. pelo26 (1434)   1 year ago

Gambling is not a good thing to do so winnings from it can be considered sin money.

 
3. myLot reputation of 63/100. PaulMel (299)   1 year ago

I think that the contrary, I mean not winning, is sadness.

 
4. myLot reputation of 65/100. farazkh1 (605)   1 year ago

No i wont because my religion Islam prohibits Gambling for believers and stay away from evils like fornication,adultery,gambling & alcohol and instead of my faith i would not enjoy the stolen money from others while knowing that many of other gamblers losen there hardly made income ...........

 
5. myLot reputation of 92/100. owlwings (2057)   1 year ago

No. Money won from gambling cannot come 'from' God, therefore cannot be a blessing.

To qualify this I have to say that 'gambling' means a game of pure chance (not of skill). God is involved with making ORDER out of CHAOS ... and randomness is an expression of CHAOS. For some people that would immediately say that 'because it is not of God, then it must be evil'. That is not true. Randomness is not evil ... it is what was left over from the creation of order and still exists in many forms. It is actually part of the initial creation of everything that is. (Whether you want to attribute that to God or not is up to you.)

My feeling is that God accepts and understands chaos - indeed, He cannot do otherwise since it is of His creation - but cannot predict it. If He could, it would not be chaotic and random. That does NOT make Him any less omnipotent, however! It merely means that 'Creation' or (to put it in Gospel terms) 'the Kingdom' is a work in progress.

A 'blessing' has to be something consciously (and freely) given. Since all gambling is based on the odds of something happening at random, a win is due to pure chance and is nothing to do with 'blessing'.

If you win in a gambling game, however, what you do with and feel about that money (which is where your free will and choice enters) is where it can become a 'blessing'.


myLot reputation of 92/100. owlwings (2057)  1 year ago

Gambling is considered a sin by some religions purely because, like many things, it can lead to abuse and the avaricious feelings it generates take us away from God. In itself, gambling is not sinful. It is our human nature that leads us away from Him towards the love of money.

 
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