The Sins and Broken Promises of Gambling
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- Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
- How did he win from that game? He must have cheated! I am the one who deserve it! How am I going to get home?!
- What is life if not a gamble?- F.E. Higgins
- Although the Bible does not mention gambling, it tells us that games such as focuses on loving, trusting, and depending on money, wealth and luck rather than God which is idolatry and this does not glorify God and his will.
- I don't think they will notice the couple bills. I need more money to not raise suspicion
- You said you would be back a few days ago, and now you are back tonight? What have you been doing
- I am telling you! My flight got cancelled and I lost my phone and they charged me for overweight luggage!
- The Bible teaches that we should work diligently as we gain money by our daily occupations instead of betting on money that we can easily lose because it can extract abundance, shows poor stewardship, and increase their lack of control over lust and wealth.
- On the other hand, the Catholic Catechism also thinks negatively of gambling because of the worship of money, wealth, and power, and it deprives someone from being able to provide for their family from the enslavement of their own selves.
- This connects to the four broken commandments of the ten commandments; you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness to your neighbour, you shall have no other gods before me, and you shall not make for your idol.
- From all of this, my opinion is that gambling is not bad or sinful when people act with only temperance, the virtue of justice, and unselfishness, but I do stand against people who idolize money in gambling because those people believe money will get them more than what God can give them.
- The Choice Between Acting with Temperance or Acting with Unhealthy Desires
- My outlook can be associated with the Seven Deadly Sins as they show anger, unrealistic desire and envy, and carelessness within gambling by betting on houses and cars, and the Moses covenant when the Israelites idolized the Golden Calf and gave up on God.
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