I have several Christian friends who play the Lotto. One of them is a very devout Christian and recently I was wondering, can a Christian play the lotto? The Bible admittedly doesn't talk about the lotto, but as we know Scripture explains Scripture.
My brother in faith does not want to get rich and is quite generous to those in need. According to him, he wants to help one lady at the lotto parlor keep her job. I told him that you might as well go to 777 where there are gambling machines and the lotto place itself is a mini casino.
Generally speaking, people who want to follow the Law of Allah do not gamble because it pushes greed and the earnings come from what others lose.
" For know this for certain, that no debauchee, or unclean, or covetous, that is, idolater, has a share in the kingdom of Christ and of God." Ephesians 3.
I myself once bought one lotto ticket before a convention about a year ago and Wojtek from Kraków pointed it out to me, but he couldn't justify it. Now I myself am aware of evil based on the Bible.
Here's a line in support:
„Lecz was, którzy opuściliście Pana, zapomnieliście o mojej świętej górze, którzy bóstwu szczęścia zastawiacie stół, a goddess of fate you serve cups full of spiced wine," Isaiah 55.
Gambling and relying on fate and luck is a demonic thing. These demons even have their names:
Deities associated with destiny: Rod, Fatum, Fortune, Tyche, Parks, Moira, Ananke.
Lotta's logo is the Queen of Heaven symbol.
The Bible, on the other hand, encourages us to work hard, and that happiness can manifest itself as God's blessing. As experienced by Joseph, Moses, Abraham, Noah, and the Apostle Paul who was rescued from many situations.
Every sin is a hindrance to prayers, and the Law of God is unchangeable.
Therefore, it is not enough to be a good person. One must know the Law of God.
I also believe that one should renounce gambling. By the way, while writing an account from Krotoszyn I mentioned how a demon of gambling came out of a man.
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The capital needed to build a national economy is not created overnight (unfortunately, this is not the case). It takes a minimum of 50 years to accumulate it (two generations! ... ), provided, of course, that it is wisely invested in future-oriented concepts during this time, and not currently spent or loaded into failed projects. It is good that Peter writes about such ordinary matters (justified biblically) and not only such lofty things.
Gambling games including of course lotteries, are a tax on greed, in this duel the machine always wins in the end.
A man who is lazy, greedy and wants to live a light life will have a hard time in life, he may have moments when he earns money and then loses it (this hurts greedy people very much)
And an honest, hard-working, good-hearted man, even though his foot may be wrong more than once, will always somehow earn a decent living.
He will give God a day, he will give and advice.
There's something about that...
I used to take one coupon with two bets/one scratchcard for 3 PLN, but I already had it prepared in my head that if I won, then after deducting what would go for tax (probably 10%), I would use the rest of 10% (even if it was not a big amount) to help for example some sick child and I would share what would be left after the deduction of this 10% for help with my relatives, mainly my earthly parents, even though we always get along. And what would be left after deducting this 10% to help, I would share with my loved ones, mainly with my earthly parents even though we don't always get along...but thanks for bringing the matter to light 🙂 .
A not very spectacular, but wise investment brings profit for a long time, while gigantomachy - living beyond one's means - almost always ends in a multifaceted disaster. For example, the biblical history of Israel or the recent history of Poland.
I was watching a while ago, and somehow it fits me perfectly here 🙂 I'm not sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qf9k9VgBrg
Praca, praca….”kto nie pracuje niech też i nie je”…nie chodzi tylko o pracę zarobkową, bo kobiety niepracujące również ciężko pracują-w domu…ale ważne jest dla Boga, by był włożony pewien wysiłek. Jeśli ktoś jest leniwy a chce się wzbogacić, to Bóg nie będzie mu błogosławił. Jak dla mnie jeśli chodzi o pracę, to chrześcijanin jest kimś, kto robi o krok więcej niż tylko to, co się od niego wymaga. Szuka, gdzie może zrobić coś jeszcze, coś poprawić, coś ulepszyć. Jest to także w pewien sposób twórcze, a więc zgodne z cechą jaką w nas zaszczepił Bóg, oraz jest to „czynienie sobie ziemi poddaną” 🙂 jest to też „niepoprzestawanie na laurach”.
With honesty and work, people get rich....
Nom and economy 🙂
I was thinking about Guaranteed Income and came up with the idea that this is another misappropriation of God's word. In Eden, God commanded Adam to work by the sweat of his brow to the end of his days, and today...ease up...don't want to? don't work! you get benefits....
It is the same with women. In His wisdom, God commanded that children should be born in pain, and today anesthesia, cesareans on demand, laughing gas...
Do what you want...
Well that's right...if someone didn't work hard until harvest, their bowl was shining empty and there was no guaranteed minimum benefit for anyone. It's all backwards with women too 🙁 .
Ja z kolei zastanawiałam się nad pojęciem „czcić”. W Biblii jest napisane, żeby czcić ojca i matkę, Boga, męża…ale czy my w ogóle w dzisiejszych czasach rozumiemy to pojęcie? Mało już nawet szacunku na co dzień, a co dopiero tak wymagająca rzecz jak „czczenie”. Ciekawa jestem Bożych standardów na ten temat. Jak Bóg to widzi.
Nie pasuje mi słowo „czcić” w bliskiej relacji ze słowem „człowiek” (matka, ojciec i inni).
Nie wiem, czy mamy to dobrze przetłumaczone. Najwłasciwsze wydaje mi się właśnie słowo „szanuj”.
Może i nie pasuje, bo pewnie Tobie (i mi także) słowo czcić kojarzy się tylko z Panem Bogiem, jako „wywyższanie Go w swoim sercu i życiu”… Czy mamy to dobrze przetłumaczone- sprawdziłam w kilku przekładach niekatolickich i katolickich np. 2 Mojż 20,12, za każdym razem jest „CZCIJ ojca swego i matkę swoją”…więc nie sądzę, aby Bóg dopuścił przekręcenia Jego intencji w tylu przekładach…pozostaje więc nam zmierzyć się z tym faktem, że określenie jest poprawne, a my musimy się nauczyć jak ich czcić…myślę, że możliwe, że Bóg używa tego wielkiego słowa, i nakazuje „czcić”, ponieważ stosunek do rodziców jest odbiciem relacji z naszym Ojcem w niebie, a stosunek żony do męża jest jak stosunek kościoła-oblubienicy do Jezusa – Bogu, Jezusowi należna jest cześć , i możliwe że lepiej możemy się jej nauczyć , przekładając to namacalnie na rodziców i męża.
In the translation of the New Gdansk Bible appears precisely the respect, and not the reverence, which has always associated me exclusively with God. Because how to distinguish between the worship that is given to man and the worship that is due to God 🙂 .
„Uszanuj twojego ojca i twoją matkę, aby się przedłużyły twoje dni na ziemi, którą da ci twój Bóg WIEKUISTY.”
No dobrze Piotr a czy nie sądzisz jak się czyta Biblię, że Bóg nakazuje okazywać np.rodzicom inny, większy szacunek niż innym ludziom? 🙂 Nie ma na to chyba innego słowa w języku polskim jak „cześć”
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?t=kjv&strongs=h3513
You can see cool in Strong's system where it is used.
Masz rację, nie widziałam tamtego komentarza i odpowiem tak… Dwie różne sytuacje i dwie różne sprawy. Nie chcę kontynuować dyskusji na ten temat… a sugestia o faryzeuszach była niestety nie trafiona … Biblia wielokrotnie przestrzega przed wilkami w owczych skórach, zwodzących ludzi… Paweł napisał: „Wszystko badajcie, a co szlachetne zachowujcie” i „uciekajcie od wszystkiego, co ma chociażby pozór zła”. Miałam kontakt z wieloma „uzdrawiaczami” i „uwalniaczami”, znam skutki takich działań, wiem o czym napisałam i przed czym czułam się w obowiązku ostrzec. Tylko tyle i aż tyle. Każdy ma rozum i niech robi co uważa. Nie miałam na myśli ludzi będących w kościołach charyzmatycznych – miałam na myśli ludzi typu Marcin Zieliński i ich działalność (myślałam, że jest oczywista, oczywistość).
I understood you to be talking about all Charismatics (they are/were also Zac Poonen, Wilkerson), so a misunderstanding crept in. You know the tree by its fruit, so sometimes you can tell the wolves from the sheep. The charism of discerning of spirits is also useful. Regards.
NN I understand 🙂 I understand 🙂 I understand 🙂 I understand 🙂 I understand 🙂 I understand 🙂 I understand 🙂
It is good to clarify misunderstandings. Sometimes you may not express your thoughts very fortuitously, or misunderstand the thoughts and intentions of others 🙁 May the Lord guide and guard you 🙂 Greetings too 🙂 I will.
Thank you, I did not know this 🙂
As for guaranteed income I agree....
I can understand a caesarean section if it turned out that the baby was positioned not with its head but with its feet (or how it lies there) towards the birth canal or if there were indications to perform such a section (and sometimes in such situations doctors do not want to perform a caesarean section even if there were indications, which sometimes means that children are born through natural childbirth with hypoxia, etc., which, unfortunately, also results in cerebral palsy or other mental disabilities ...); I understand women's fear of natural childbirth (especially that it is often too routine to incise the perineum, which later results in problems such as urinary incontinence. I understand women's fear of natural childbirth (especially that the incision of the perineum is often used too routinely, which results in incontinence problems later on... it's worse when the perineum breaks more, but in a natural way...) and what happens afterwards (well, for instance the incontinence I mentioned earlier...); some women are also afraid of pain, hence the frequent use of anaesthetics and other such things... anaesthetics or Caesareans and laughing gas are good to have, it's worse that they are used too often, even when there are no indications:/ not that I support any side...
In Eden, Adam and Eve had everything at their fingertips.
Adam (and others after him) had to work the land by the sweat of their brow and feed on it and Eve (and others after her) had to give birth in pain - all not in wisdom but as a form of punishment after Adam and Eve fell into disfavor for eating the forbidden fruit. God is not a sadist to make life difficult or cause birth pain for no reason. Animals do not have such pains when they give birth, do they?
God takes away and God gives. I think that to him who obeys God, God also provides everything he needs at his fingertips.
Did Mary, then, in giving birth to the Son of God, have labor pains?
Była zwykłym człowiekiem potrzebującym Zbawiciela. „Raduje się mój duch w Bogu, moim Zbawcy”, lub „oto ja służebnica Pańska”.
Unfortunately, so much soap has been rubbed into people's eyes that they see through a thick fog that Mary was supposed to be without sin. So if one Mary could be without sin, why couldn't all mankind be born without sin and Jesus wouldn't have to die for anyone?
Jedyna i jednocześnie uniwersalna odpowiedź na tego typu heretyckie teorie – „oto wielka tajemnica wiary” 🙂
And it seems to me that obstetricians know the answer and it has nothing to do with faith, let alone secrecy. Regards?
Hello but this is what our Creator said after Eve and Adam sinned !!! And in fact He gave them EDEN to live in without sweat, sweat and sickness !!! Beloveds, the book of Genesis is at hand .
By the way...
Gaz rozweselający – pomimo takiej nazwy nie rozwesela 🙂 ale pomaga w prawidłowym oddechu, który jest niezmiernie ważny w szczycie najwyższego, bolesnego skurczu 🙂 Sama korzystałam, więc wiem co piszę, nie miało to efektu przysłowiowego „haju”, a pomagało znieść, regulując oddech, najwyższą fazę skurczu 🙂 a tym samym pozytywnie wpływało na przebieg akcji porodowej 🙂
Thanks Ani, I was just wondering how it works with childbirth 🙂 I'm not sure.
Dear Eurakylon-not one baby's life was saved by a caesarean section, but you are partly right, some women are afraid of childbirth, it is understandable because the country does not provide adequate care during childbirth.
Cesarean is not a sin, and saving the lives of mother and baby should be a priority.
I'm not about that... 🙂 .
Chodzi mi o to, że cwaniactwo i bunt jest wszedzie tam, gdzie Bóg powiedział „tak ma być”, a człowiek „właśnie, ze nie”.
Eurakylon-you're right. Rebellion against God. One feels it, one is aware of it. God's law. Keep warm. With God.
The good coming from the lottery, and the good coming from God differ in one key thing - the identification of the donor.
In the case of the lottery, man in a sense leans towards Darwinism by saying that by chance he now has what he has.
In the case of prayer, a person glorifies God that it is because of Him that he has what he has 🙂 .
„Wtedy wzywaj Mnie w dniu utrapienia: Ja cię uwolnię, a ty Mnie uwielbisz” (Ps 50:15)
There are different situations in life. I wouldn't put everything in one bag. I know a person who was in a tragic life situation (you could say the world collapsed on her head), prayed for a six in Totka and got it... enough money to support her family for six years... so it is not always greed etc. There is always a person behind every situation with their intentions - good or bad.
She prayed for 6, there was enough money for 6 years, the only thing missing is for the winning amount to be 6 digits 😛
Czy naprawdę trzeba wszędzie dopatrywać się „szóstek” i łap diabła? Starczyło na sześć lat, bo po tylu latach usamodzielniły się dzieci, dla których ta osoba prosiła o pieniądze. Znam dobrze sytuację i osobę…i mogę z całą odpowiedzialnością stwierdzić, że diabeł nie miał z tym absolutnie nic wspólnego. Czyż nie jest napisane: „Szukajcie najpierw Królestwa Bożego, a to wszystko zostanie wam dodane”…owa wygrana to piękne świadectwo, pokazujące jak Ojciec w niebie troszczy się o tych, którzy MU ufają.
Jakże łatwo przychodzi ocena i osąd (wystarczyły „szóstki”) 🙁
I would like to show a comment I once wrote to you that you did not see. At that time I also felt that judging by a general measure was unfair and that is the only reason I paste it here to show that you can sometimes lump 100% cases together without seeing the wheat among the weeds.
http://detektywprawdy.pl/2017/06/08/autor-kanalu-yt-o-ekonomii-robia-nas-w-konia-przewartosciowal-swoj-swiat-na-jezusa/
I don't want to reopen that discussion, peace with you and everyone.
Beautiful Emilko❤so happy ?for your growth in Christ.
Peace be with you my dear sister.❤
How easy it is also to misunderstand a comment that was posted just for the sake of a joke. The smiling face at the end of my post was supposed to emphasize that, apparently it did not. To be clear, the whole world is full of symbols and paws of the devil after all he rules this planet so why should it be different? It does not mean that I have to waste my time to search for all possible symbols that are available because I do not have enough life for this, and priceless time is running out faster and faster. I have not judged anyone and if I wanted to I would do it in a clear and visible way. I do not want to explain any more, I had a hard day, I fall on my face. God bless!
Today I join with you in prayer :)for the development of intra-church communication and understanding of humor 🙂 .
Let us also pray for all the Brothers and Sisters who persevere in practicing push-ups. They're falling down and getting up... They're falling down and getting up... 🙂
and for wounded hearts
Fine...
I've been doing push-ups for two days now 😛 and after today's stressful day I feel like I'm lifting half a ton on my back so I'm not going to strain myself. I've already got such jokes and I decided that if I understand them, others will too.
All cleared up, any misunderstandings 🙂
Greetings to the whole church 🙂 .
Lenka: *
Zaczęli od hazardu skończyli na porodzie 🙂 I jak tu Was nie kochać 🙂 Hazard jak każde inne uzależnienie to chorobą znałem takich chorych ludzi. Zazwyczaj gdy już taki demon hazardu się przypałęta to przyprowadza kolegów od spraw alkoholowych, nikotynowych i „dragowych” czyli biorąc jednego dostajesz gratis kilku kolejnych zupełnie za free ot taka piekielna promocja. Powiedzonko brzmi modlitwą i pracą narody się bogacą nie zaś uczciwością i pracą jak to ktoś pisał. Wiecie już zatem czemu w tej Polsce taka bida jak czapka 🙂 Może i ludzie pracowici ale modły kierują do niewłaściwego adresata. Co do wypowiedzi, że Chrzescijanin zawsze zrobi o krok więcej i wypracuje więcej niż się od niego oczekuje to sie nie zgadzam 🙂 Pokaż, że potrafisz to wydoją cię podwójnie. Tutaj to sprawdza się idealnie nie wiem jak w PL ale podejrzewam, że jest tak samo. Robię co do mnie należy zawsze sprawnie, prawidłowo i z zaangażowaniem i tyle 🙂 Nie ma co z siebie robić dosłownie woła. Wołem takim byłem 8 lat i co mi z tego przyszło 😛 Aha żeby nie było nie jestem żadnym leniem i w pracy daję z siebie 100% ale nie zamierzam być stachanowcem 🙂
Każdy z nas jest hazardzistą. Obstawiamy na „czarne” lub „białe”, a stawką jest nasze życie.
Slawek such a nature of the Pole - from my own experience, we force ourselves. When the body begins to get sick, then we slow down, Take care.