1. Death By Gambling Winnings
2. Death By Gambling Advice
3. Death By Gambling Addiction
4. Death By Gambling Meaning
5. Death Gambling Anime

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Bible verses about gambling

Many people wonder is gambling a sin? Although there might not be a clear cut verse from what we learn in Scripture I strongly believe it is a sin and all Christians should stay away from it. It is terrible to see that some churches are bringing gambling in the house of God. The Lord is not pleased.

Many people are going to say, well the Bible doesn’t specifically say you can’t do it. The Bible doesn’t specifically say you can’t do a lot of things that we know as sin.

Many people find any excuse they can give for what is wrong, but just like Satan deceived Eve he will deceive many by saying, did God really say you can’t do that?

Quotes

• “Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.” – George Washington
• “Gambling is a sickness, a disease, an addiction, an insanity, and is always a loser in the long run.”
• “Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that they’re not just gambling with money, they’re gambling with their lives.”
• “Gambling is the sure way of getting nothing for something.”

Gambling is of the world, it is very addicting, and it will cause you harm.

Gambling is loving something that is part of the cruel world, not only is it dangerous especially back in the days where many were being plotted on and murdered for their money. Gambling is very addictive, you can go into a casino one day thinking I’m going to spend this much, then leave without your car. For some people it’s that bad and it can become even worse.

I’ve heard many stories about people losing their lives for owing money and people losing their lives by committing suicide because of the money they lost. Many people have lost their houses, spouses, and kids over their gambling addiction. You might say that I don’t gamble that much, but it doesn’t matter. Even if it is small fun gambling it is sin and it should not be done. Always remember that sin grows overtime. Your heart becomes harder, your desires become greedier, and it will turn into something that you never saw coming.

1. 1 Corinthians 6:12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say–but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”–but I will not be mastered by anything.

2. 2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity–for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

3. 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

4. Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is his good, pleasing and perfect will.

5. Proverbs 15:27 The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.

Gambling leads to more sin.

Not only does gambling lead to deeper and deeper covetousness, but it leads to different types of sin. When you go to the movie theater and buy popcorn they make it extra buttery so you will buy their expensive drinks. When you go to casinos they promote alcohol. When you are not sober you will be trying to kick back and spend more money. Many people who are addicted to gambling are also living in drunkenness. Prostitutes are always near casinos. They entice men who seem like high rollers and they entice men who are down on their luck. It is not a surprise that most casinos promote sensuality and women.

6. James 1:14-15 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Scripture teaches that we are to be on guard against covetousness.

7. Exodus 20:17 Do not covet your neighbor’s house. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

8. Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.

9. Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

As Christians we are to fix our attitudes on money.

10. Ecclesiastes 5:10 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

11. Luke 16:13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

What is your eye gazing upon?

Your chance of winning the lottery on a single ticket is one in 175 million. That means that someone has to really be greedy and have dreams of riches to still try and play the lottery. You have to pay for more and more tickets because of your greed and what you are really doing is emptying your pockets because of your covetousness.

Most gamblers throw money away. Most people who go to casinos lose money that could have been used for paying bills or on the less fortunate, but instead people would rather throw it away. It is wasting God’s money on evil, which is similar to stealing.

12. Luke 11:34-35 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.

13. Proverbs 28:22 Greedy people try to get rich quick but don’t realize they’re headed for poverty.

14. Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty.

15. Proverbs 28:20 The trustworthy person will get a rich reward, but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble.

We are to be hard workers.

The Bible teaches us to work hard and worry about others. Gambling teaches us to do the opposite. In fact, many of the people who play the lottery are poor. Gambling destroys something that God intended for good. You have to understand that the devil is using it to destroy the foundation of work.

16. Ephesians 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

17. Acts 20:35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.

18. Proverbs 10:4 Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.

19. Proverbs 28:19 Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.

Gambling and betting is giving the appearance of evil.

What would you think if you went inside a casino and you saw your pastor holding money in one hand and rolling dice in another? That picture just wouldn’t look right would it? Now picture yourself doing the same thing. Society does not look at gambling as being honest. The betting industry is a dark world filled with crime. Google treats gambling websites like pornography websites. Gambling websites contain a lot of viruses.

20. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Many churches want to turn God’s house into a place to play bingo and other gambling activities, which is wrong. God’s house is not a place to make profit. It is a place to worship the Lord.

21. John 2:14-16 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!”

Gambling is not trusting in the Lord.

One of the greatest problems of gambling is it takes away from trusting in the Lord. God says I will provide for your needs. Satan says roll the dice there might be a chance that you win and become filthy rich. You see the problem. When you trust in God nothing is by chance. God provides for our needs and God gets all the glory. Gambling is showing that you don’t really trust in the Lord.

22. Isaiah 65:11 But because the rest of you have forsaken the LORD and have forgotten his Temple, and because you have prepared feasts to honor the god of Fate and have offered mixed wine to the god of Destiny.

23. Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Reminders

24. Proverbs 3:7 Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.

25. Proverbs 23:4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.

In conclusion.

You have a higher chance of being struck by lighting than winning the lottery. Most gambling is not made for you to win. It’s made for you to dream about what if I did win. Gambling fails in its attempt to give people hope because most people spend thousands of dollars for nothing. Just take a thousand dollars and throw it in the garbage that is exactly what gamblers do over the course of time. When you have greed you will always lose more than you gain. Gambling is bad for your health and it violates many Scriptures as seen above. Seek hard work and trust in the Lord with your income.

Scott Stevens had a gambling problem. He lost his job after embezzling nearly four million dollars to fund his addiction, and yet he continued to gamble, accumulating massive debts. In 2012, the Ohio man committed suicide.

Stevens believed he had dug his family, a wife and three daughters, too deep of a hole to dig out of, and that suicide was the only option, The Atlantic reported. This is not uncommon. The National Council on Problem Gambling estimates that one in five addict gamblers attempt suicide, a rate higher than addicts of any other kind.

Death By Gambling Winnings

Casino buildings are designed to make people feel important and luxurious. Food, drink, and other amenities are all accessible without having to leave the building. The casino is “designed to be an all-absorbing environment that does not release its customers until they have exhausted their money.” They draw people like a fly to porch light in mid-June. They shimmer and shine and promise that you too can be a high roller.

It is the games themselves, though, which are the real threat. Casinos rely on electronic gaming machines, primarily slots and video poker. According to a 2010 American Gaming Association report, slots and video poker are responsible for almost 70 percent of casino revenues. These machines are designed to lure the player in with the speed of play, flashing lights, and bright sounds, numbing them to their losses.

As the saying goes, “The house always wins.” This phrase cemented in our common language because it’s true. Given enough time, a player will lose all of their money. According to The Atlantic, “Local regulations typically stipulate that machines must pay out 85 to 95 percent of the bets placed on them—which means that for every $100 inserted into the machine, on average, the player will lose $5 to $15.” Winning is impossible. Because of this, casinos are designed to maximize the amount of time players spend in front of these machines.

The casino system actively takes advantage of human vulnerabilities in order to maximize profit. A conservative estimation is that three to four million adults in the United States have a gambling disorder and that another five to eight million meets at least some of the American Psychiatric Association’s criteria for addiction. According to the Institute for American Values, between 40 to 60 percent of casino revenue comes from such problem gamblers and casinos are not blind to the source of their revenue.

According to Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and the president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, “The business plan for casinos is not based on the occasional gambler. The business plan for casinos is based on the addicted gambler.” Casinos create rewards and members programs, target people who gamble the most money with incentives and encouragement, and even loan money to people who have lost all that they currently have.

But this is a matter of personal responsibility, some will argue. Gambling does require a level of personal choice and responsibility, and it is not the role of government to intervene in every instance where a citizen can make a harmful choice. However the casino industry is not equivalent to the occasional wager or weekend poker game, it is a multi-billion dollar, exploitative business model. Casinos do not promote the economic flourishing of individuals or the common good. If one responsibility of government is to protect its citizens, especially vulnerable citizens, from predatory business practices, then there is a role here for government to intervene.

Death By Gambling Advice

In the case of predatory gambling, state and local governments have failed in their responsibility to protect citizens. Even worse, though, is that they are active participants in these systems. State and local governments not only fail to protect their citizens from being preyed upon, but they are actually the predators. Casinos are built in tight partnership with government in order to raise public revenues. State and local governments share responsibility with the casino industry for maximizing revenue at the expense of vulnerable citizens.

This was the case made by Scott Stevens’ wife Stacey when she took the state of West Virginia and the company that designed video slot machines to court, alleging that the machines are inherently dangerous and designed to keep players playing past the point of being able to stop. The suit argued that the state had the duty to protect players from machines that were actively “eroding the players’ capacity to make reasoned decisions.” They argued that the casinos and the state were “creating problem gamblers as much as they are preying upon problem gamblers.”

In 2015, the court ruled that the state of West Virginia was not responsible and did not have a “duty of care” to protect players from compulsive gambling. It was only the court’s responsibility to enforce the laws of the state and in their judgment, “duty of care” did not fall under the law.

Death By Gambling Addiction

Frighteningly, the court acknowledged that West Virginia’s laws are not neutral to gambling. The court observed three things in its ruling. First, that “such machines (video slots) exist in West Virginia for the express purpose of providing an economic boon to the State and its political subdivisions in the form of increased public revenues.” Casinos exist for the explicit purpose of raising public funds. It then says that “the State has so thoroughly integrated itself into the provision and operation of the machines on every level, in both a macro and a micro sense, that its involvement cannot readily be divorced from that of its licensees and key suppliers.” The court recognizes that the state government is not a bystander when it comes to casino gambling. Its financial interests are so intertwined with casinos that it is implicated in the business practices of casinos. Third, it observes that “the State has plainly weighed the societal costs of the machines—specifically including their contribution to compulsive gambling and the potential consequences thereof—against their economic benefits, and it has nonetheless elected to make them available to the public.” The court makes it clear that the state has decided that the not only will the predatory business model of the casino, reliant on electronic gaming machines, be permitted in the state, but will be relied uponby the state for public revenue.

Death By Gambling Meaning

To put it succinctly, the state is willingly and knowingly participating in business practices that prey on its own citizens to generate public funds. The state of West Virginia has made the public policy decision that the revenue generated from casinos is worth the harm to its citizens. The casino industry in West Virginia is not unique. Similar conclusions about the way state governments are implicated in the casino industry can be drawn about other states across the country.

From a public justice perspective, it is unacceptable for the government to fund itself by preying on its citizens, especially its most vulnerable, even if there are other economic or political benefits. That a state Supreme Court willingly acknowledges that this is happening should be an immediate call to action for those of us who envision public justice as something different than economic utility.

Death Gambling Anime

In places where casinos are being considered as a means of generating public funds, citizens need to understand how this system works. Christians especially should stand up against any economic practice that preys on vulnerable people.

-Andrew Whitworth is a graduate of Taylor University and an alum of the Trinity Fellows Academy. He lives in Washington, DC exploring the role of imagination in politics and working to build flourishing political communities.