can a true christian gamble like buying lottery?
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of course! Why not? If some "religion" would make a person feel "guilty" about such a simple, harmless act....I'd like to see a scripture saying so! A true Christian sees things in perspective..such as " It's a lottery ticket! Maybe I'll win, and if I don't, no big deal!" It's not breaking one of God's commandments..so buy some! I feel that I'm a Christian, and I sometimes buy them. \nHeavy gambling, on the other hand, if it means that they would get theirself in debt, or a person's family does without things, etc...probably is not how a true Christian would do...Their love for their family and themselves would certainly be predominate. \n\nHey! it's a lottery ticket, not a heavy gambling problem we're talking about here! In my belief, God is alot more concerned about the child molesters, murderers, adulterers, and breaking the 10 Commandments, (which buying a lottery ticket is not one of the 10!) I worship a God of Love, not a god who makes rules that take all the fun out of life...so when we put God in a position of itty bitty piddly things like this, we make God very small!!! \nIt's simply an act of buying a lottery ticket.....it's NOT a destructive gambling habit!! \nClueless Clown says it all!!\nWell.....anyway...just my opinion....
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Unfortunately, NO.  If any body claims it's a free lottery, beware of frauds. I refer a site for your info: fraudwatch.com . Browse this site for extra info.  Goodluck
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NO.If you believe in Jesus Christ an do whatever He told you from scripture then your reward is Heaven.Because salvation is a gift.
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People are funny with their replies. I've done many accurate readings for my family and friends. I never ask for anything in return or do it to get lottery numbers. That would be wrong and a misuse of everything. So there you go. Do what you believe.
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It is highly dependent on which lottery.  However, regardless of which lottery (and whichever odds), the expected value is always less than 1, meaning that if you buy enough tickets to ensure a win, you will end up losing money.
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How to win state and national lotteries.\nDo you want to win a BIG, BIG prize? Do you want to have all your financial worries sorted out? Do you want to win the lottery? The secret is very, very simple. Anybody can manage it. All you have to do is buy a ticket with the numbers that are going to be drawn at the next draw. If you do this I can GUARANTEE you will win the lottery.\n\n That's not exactly new information, is it?\n\nNeither is the idea that nobody can predict what those numbers will be. However, when a lottery machine selects the numbers this is in no sense a random action. It is 100% predictable. There is nothing stopping anybody calculating exactly which balls not only will, but MUST be drawn. Nothing stopping you. It will simply take a measuring and timing tolerance at the edge of possibility combined with a huge series of calculations.\n\nYou can measure the balls and know their properties. You can time the intervals between starting and stopping the contra-rotating tumble dryers. You can project the trajectories of every single ball and their interactions with each other. It can be done. But it would probably cost more than the size of the lottery jackpot to fund the project and nobody is going to be very happy with people standing around and timing the balls to that degree of accuracy, because one microsecond will totally disrupt all the calculations. The lottery ball machine is totally predictable and not in any way random, but exactly the same thing can be said about a woman. Both are determined and predictable systems, but they simulate randomness far more elegantly than true randomness would. True randomness is a willo-the-wisp entity, like infinity, the highest prime number and the function of half of the roundabouts in Warrington. Lottery machines are not random, but they are chaotic, and therefore, like the minds of women, very difficult to probe with the crude analytical tools we have at our disposal.\n\nSo, I can't tell you how to win the lottery. However, I can offer you some interesting advice that you might find helpful.\n\nYou have to be in it to win it\nThis is a very common slogan used by lotteries and football pools companies alike. What this slogan is saying is you can't dream of winning the lottery or the pools unless you part with your beer tokens. Of course they are right. If you never buy a ticket you can never win. But how many times do you dream of winning? Do you have to win every week to be happy? Of course not. You only have to win once. So you only have to buy one ticket, at some time in the future to be able to legitimately dream of winning a huge jackpot.\n\nOne ticket will do\nYour chance of winning a share in a big jackpot prize is very low. In the UK national lottery (now named Lotto) your chances of having a share of a top jackpot, by getting 6 balls out of 6 representing the numbers 1 to 49 are 1 in 13,983,816. \n\nNow most weeks people win, often several people share the jackpot. So it does happen. But if you staked £5 every week on those odds you would not have a realistic expectation of winning a share in a jackpot in a normal lifetime. But you knew that anyway, didn't you?\n\nSo you might as well get used to the idea that winning the lottery is unlikely. But it's also nice to have a dream, it is good for your mental health. So here is the secret: Buy a ticket. One day. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe not.
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I don't think gambling is in the bible. But being a good steward with what God has blessed you with is in the bible.\nGod giveth and God can take it away.
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yepp.thres a cpl games every day you can acces the texas lottery.org for the games and odds
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Are you kidding??! Of course it's not real. How can you win a lottery you never entered? Playing overseas lotteries is against the law anyway.
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Yes I will take it!!!!  \nFirst i'd like to know what the winning lottery numbers are and buy a ticket.  Upon winning I'll see which stocks will do good in the future and invest half my winnings on those stocks.  Then I will look to see what my ex-wife plans are to screw me over in the future and put a stop on it.  Next I'll find out what future plans the terrorists have and try to put a stop on that.  Then I'll see what future natural disasters will happen and warn the people that will be affected.  \n\nOn second thougth that is a lot of responsibilty so NO I will not accept this seeing the future gift thing...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_machine
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cannot predict.. Only Jesus can help you out to offer the lottery amount to you. :o)
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this goes under religion not fantasy sports man.. but there is a 50/50 chance.. just like life everything is half and half.. it could be good it could be bad, you could go to heaven and see God or you could just be buried in the ground. Soooo everything in life is 50/50
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No way, but what you are talking about doing is essentially gambling on someone's death. You might be able to get a british bookmaker to give you odds on that, so long as the person was not on death's door.
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It's impossible to know.  There is a chance, but you'll probably win the lottery first.
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First of all, be more specific. For what are you asking?\n\nGod doesn't always let you win the lottery because God knows that inherently humans are stupid and we would probably not use the money for a good cause. \n\nIf God doesn't make your spouse come back to you, it's because you will find something better on down the line that you never saw coming.  That's what happened to me.  My husband left me and I had a nervous breakdown and lost 60 pounds and could not actually live.  Then by pure luck, chance (or God's ultimate wisdom) I met the quite literally perfect man for me, married him and we are living happily ever after (thank God).  Shoot, and there I'd prayed for God to bring back my husband!  See what I would've gotten if God had said "okey doke!"\n\nYou may not know when God is speaking to you.  I always get a chill when I know God is looking over my shoulder.  When I pray something through, I feel an overwhelming peace and know that I can just let it go now, that it's not going to haunt me.  Keep praying until you feel like you have received the peace of knowing your request has not fallen on deaf ears.
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The chances of anyone winning the lottery are extremely slim. It'd be wise to invest your money elsewhere.