- Crossing the street
- Being a farmer
- Buying insurance
- Using the stock market
- Raffles
- Office pools
- Bingo (church or non-church)
- Slot machines (and the like)
- Poker
- Betting on sports
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
What's Gambling?
Assuming a negative definition of gambling (gambling = sinful), which of the following practices would you consider 'gambling':
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i'm going to go with 5-10
Dane says "all of them"
good question. i think i'll say that betting in sums larger than five dollars (one meal's worth by American terms) could be considered sinful. but it really depends on circumstance, and whether or not one is giving much to the poor.
p.s. Curious on your opinion...What do you make of the fact that some people give their gambling profits to the Church and church colleges and they are received with open arms?
I'd say when a church knowingly accepted money from gambling profits it's a very lousy thing to do.
To gamble is to "hazard something of value on an uncertain risk." To some extent, everything we do is gambling, because we don't know the outcome. Is walking across that street mean we'll get hit by a car? Or maybe if you don't walk across the street, you'll get hit by another car when the driver looses control. You never know! Of course, most people use the term "Gamble" to think of giving up a small portion of something for the opportunity to get something bigger, which means you want to get something for nothing and not earn it!
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