Powerball Winner??

[Guest FishMan]

CWJ - I was not putting my finger at you or calling you self-righteous at all. I was addressing the church a sa whole, that we have a tendency to, like Wisdom said so perfectly, "miss the big picture by looking at a little snapshot".

Sorry if it sounded like it was directed at you, ok?  :biggrin:

Wisdom - you said it much better than I did! Thanks!

FishMan

[WISDOM]

CWJ - I was not putting my finger at you or calling you self-righteous at all. I was addressing the church a sa whole, that we have a tendency to, like Wisdom said so perfectly, "miss the big picture by looking at a little snapshot".

Sorry if it sounded like it was directed at you, ok?

[George]

Interesting question -- this is something that happened to me a few years ago.

The Maryland Lottery had grown to a large sum of dollars.

[Dad Ernie]

Greetings All,

Just to add my 2c. "What is not of faith is sin." "Without faith it is impossible to please God. He who comes to God must believe that He exists and He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

$100 is nothing to a millionaire, so we have to look at this in perspective. What forms of entertainment do we indulge in that costs us money that might otherwise have gone to the poor, the hungry and the widow? Do you have cable TV? Do you purchase and read novels? Do you get the newspaper or other magazines? Do you go to shows or attend sporting events? What about that young child that comes to your door and you purchase some ostensibly "Christian books" from him. Could the money have been better spent? Who is to say that it wasn't the Spirit that directed the buying of a lottery ticket? Didn't the Hebrews "strike it rich" off the Egyptians? What about the group of Lepers that came across the enemies abandoned camp and took some treasure for themselves, but then decided they had to tell the king about it? Did they not benefit from the enemy?

I believe we are told by the scriptures that "anything" done to excess is sin, except perhaps for worshiping the Lord. So was our millionaire winner "blowing" his money away, or was he providing himself some entertainment for himself? I suspect the latter. I'm sure he had hopes of winning, but I don't believe that "chance" is ruling his life. Do you?

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[nevaehinvesting]

Good responses!

[abbershay]

hanging  stockings for santa  to put gifts in there is probly worse than gambling ,  the whole santa thing is   wrong....

[CWJ]

One thing for sure....I'll be glad when we're all "perfect"....right? HA!

So far I've found where they "cast lots" for things, so, isn't that like taking a "chance", or gambling?

Waiting for some scriptures.

[Adstar]

Hello George

You said:

Now this is the scenerio -- what if your parents bought you lottery tickets?  This was the situation about 3-4 years ago, my mom had gone out and bought 5 lottery tickets and gave them as part of the "stocking" gifts.  

What would happen if I had won?  What should I have said?  You see how interesting this situation can become.

Just another thought and seeing what you would have done in my situation.  I will describe what I did after I see what some others say.

1) If I knew that my mother intended to go out and buy lottery tickets as a gift to me I would ask her not to. In your case you did not know your mother was going to do this. So therefore you did not do anything wrong did you?

2) So what if you had won? Why would that have anything to do with your decision to say anything or not? The only time you would need to decide what to say or if to say anything is when you discovered your mother had given you tickets. you could have decided to say:

a) Thank you mom for the gift and I appreciate the thought behind it, but please don't buy me another present like that because......................................

b) Sorry mum but I cannot accept this gift because..........

c) Thanks mom.

There is probably a lot more options to think about? I'm not sure this is the type of reply you where looking for George?

All Praise The Ancient Of Days

[whatsitmean]

One thing for sure....I'll be glad when we're all "perfect"....right? HA!

So far I've found where they "cast lots" for things, so, isn't that like taking a "chance", or gambling?

Waiting for some scriptures.

I don't think so.

[CWJ]

whatsitmean, help me out here will ya?

Where do you see the connection of the Urim and Thummin to the casting of lots?  And where are you finding it that the casting of lots revealed the Lord's will, not being of chance?

Thanks for your replies.

Still hoping someone can help out on this subject of the lottery.....

SHOULD HIS CHILDREN PLAY?

Blessings, Carl