Yesterday we did part 1 on gambling. Today we continue with the third principle why gambling is wrong. It is also unloving and evil because gambling breaks the law of equivalents, which amounts to stealing and the bible says, "thou shall not steal". The law of equivalents requires that both parties benefit equally, at least in principle, in a buiness transaction. However, this is not so with gambling, for in it few gain and many suffer lost. Everytime one wins in gambling, many lose. According to Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, in gambling, " The happiness of the winner implies the misery of the loser." It further states that "It is a habbit intrinsically savage." Since gambling violates the law of love it is based on the law of hatred, covetousness, exploitation and injustice, despite the fact that one gamblies by choice. Therefore, It is anti-man and anti-God.
Keep away from gambling it is an evil practice because it breaks the two greatest commandments, to love God with everything you have and to love your neighbor as yourself. Gambling show that one love himself more than his neighbor.
(4) Gambling is also wrong from the propsective of reason in the light of its historical pragmatic results.
To be continued.
SCRIPTURE:
"Love does no harm to its neighbor ..." Romans 13:10
