Is Gambing Halal or Haram According to Jewish Or Christian Faith?

[fennic]

I know that this is very silly and religious question but I think that this should be Discussed.
According to me, As I am Muslim, Gambling is Haram and there are very reasons behind this. And also I do not much about another religions. But if someone has knowledge about that if Gambling is allowed or prohibited in Jewish or Christ Faith. And I think many people have many mind sets.
I do not want to hurt someone's feeling by talking about Religious Comments.

[Oshosondy]

In Christianity, there is no where gambling is mentioned in the bible that it is a sin. In the church, pastor will not even want to talk about gambling. But if a pastor is asked if gambling is a sin, he would say the love of money is the root of all evil and uses some chapters in the bible to discourage you which can be followed with some practical examples of how some people lost to gambling. All he will be pointing to is that it is better not to gamble.

But not where in the bible that gambling is referred to as a sin in christianity.

[TheUltraElite]

The point of every religion is to point people towards what the proponents of the religion deem right.

Now you can gamble and still have total control over your persona life without any problems, then it is well and good but then you would be a rare breed. Most people get addicted to gambling and end up spending way more than what they can afford. In such cases you should stop gambling.

Now I dont know specific religions but this is the logical basis of how you can handle yourself in case you feel the guilt of gambling on you. A lot of things are considered bad in many religions or are forbidden, but they are often done by the followers of that religion, because nobody wants to be shackled to rules and chains.

Your self-control is the key here.

[danherbias07]

There's this picture about the soldiers gambling the clothing of Jesus below him.
When you use the Bible as logic, that means those guys are bad and doing bad things while someone is nailed to the cross who is good.

It's not forbidden to gamble in Christianity but traditionally it is a bad thing to do because you are wasting money and that is what is taught by Christian parents over the years until now.
I have a different point of view about this though, it's all on you. If you think you can control it and gambling to add spice to your entertainment then do so, but if it gets out of hand then it's bad and should be stopped.

[Little Mouse]

None of the religion encourages any bad act which can be harmful for the mankind. I have never read any other holy book other than Quran but I believe more or less every holy book would direct people to live an honest life and wouldn't harm other people by any means.
Gambling is Haram in Islam and of course there must be a reason behind that. I believe it should be discouraged in any other religion for sure.

[piebeyb]

I know that this is very silly and religious question but I think that this should be Discussed.
According to me, As I am Muslim, Gambling is Haram and there are very reasons behind this. And also I do not much about another religions. But if someone has knowledge about that if Gambling is allowed or prohibited in Jewish or Christ Faith. And I think many people have many mind sets.
I do not want to hurt someone's feeling by talking about Religious Comments.

if in Islam it is forbidden you should leave it maybe there is good from the prohibition and order, everyone has their own views sometimes they separate religion from this gambling because it is too sensitive, but I don't want to talk about my religion here
In my view, if you don't harm other people, such as stealing other people's money to gamble or borrowing money to gamble or abandon your family because of gambling, in my opinion, of course it will be strictly prohibited because it is included in the list of addicts and is excessive, but if you gamble with your money yourself just for fun and not harm the people around you, that's better even though it's still illegitimate 

[btc_angela]

It's not directly written in any holy book as far as I know, but what are frown by this religions is the love for money, which we all know is part of being a gambler.

But if your priest says otherwise, and if he thinks that it is against your religion then you should follow the rule. But I guess it his age though, individuals are free to do what they want as long as they know that they are not taking advantage of anyone.

So regardless if you are a Christian or Muslim, you have to decide for yourself if you want to be a gambler or not.

[joeperry]

Actually it depends on the person's principle. Even atheist will think that gambling is bad if it is bad to the person, we should know that religion exist to guide people to be good in life and even people without religion and live with principle might think that gambling should be prohibited if it has bad result to the person or to anyone.

We should know that gambling exist a long time ago even before Christ or christian was established so we can't really eliminate or remove it to people's lives.

[ethereumhunter]

I don't think any religion allows gambling because when we become addicted, we can spend all our wealth playing gambling and also get other problems such as mental health and not wanting to work hard. But even so, many people still play gambling even though they only want to get pleasure from gambling.

Maybe in religion, it is not explained clearly that gambling is prohibited. But actually, people already know that they should not do that.

[Jating]

The big question is? it is a sin as per your religion?

And as others have said, really depends on how you look at it or how you are being brought by your parents through your religion, Christian or Muslim. And it become a sin if you will left your gambling destroy yourself and your family. So what's important is total balance, prioritized things in your life first before playing or gambling.

[robelneo]

None of the religion encourages any bad act which can be harmful for the mankind. I have never read any other holy book other than Quran but I believe more or less every holy book would direct people to live an honest life and wouldn't harm other people by any means.
Gambling is Haram in Islam and of course there must be a reason behind that. I believe it should be discouraged in any other religion for sure.

I'm a Christian by religion and Christianity teaches that too much of everything is bad it discourages gambling within your means or gambling excessively because if you're gambling you have a strong attachment to winning money and the root of all evil is the love for money, Our religion does not allow donation coming from gambling because there's an evil side of it, some compulsive gamblers resort to cheating manipulation and stealing just to sustain their gambling habit and it's forbidden to indulge in something too much that can ruin how you think reasonably.
 

[boyptc]

In Christian faith, gambling isn't allowed. Whether it's written in the bible or not, it's all about being greedy and the love for the money.

Thus, that makes it as a sin because it's going to make someone greedy and it should be spent elsewhere instead of gambling. But how many really are following it?

Are they that much?

[Saisher]

It's forbidden if you do it excessively it's not in the bible but any habit where you can develop a vice then it's forbidden we all know excessive gambling can make a good person bad and from excessive gambling, he learns to lie cheat, and dishonesty, some Christian sect teaches not to gamble and some Christian sect teaches to moderate gamble but for me, you cannot serve two masters, you will hate the other and you will love the other.

[Taskford]

I know that this is very silly and religious question but I think that this should be Discussed.
According to me, As I am Muslim, Gambling is Haram and there are very reasons behind this. And also I do not much about another religions. But if someone has knowledge about that if Gambling is allowed or prohibited in Jewish or Christ Faith. And I think many people have many mind sets.
I do not want to hurt someone's feeling by talking about Religious Comments.

Gambling is haram in islam and forbidden by majority of the religion since this is also a sin. But many people ignore the religion aspect upon gambling since majority think about pleasure when playing. Also religion cannot do anything with this since many people got influence by their environment if they see someone playing or if this is rampant on their neighborhood then they will follow it as they see some people having fun playing with it.

[Slow death]

about this issue of gambling being a sin, I think that religion has many things in it that make no sense, I particularly question the following:

why do religious eat meat, fish, and vegetables when animals also deserve to live and plants also deserve to live? so what's the point of accepting something that is apparently cruel and not accepting games of chance that nobody kills animals? I don't see any sense in that, and there's also the issue of not having concrete evidence of who said that gambling is a sin? In Christianity, gambling is not prohibited and I am not religious either.

It's forbidden if you do it excessively it's not in the bible but any habit where you can develop a vice then it's forbidden we all know excessive gambling can make a good person bad and from excessive gambling, he learns to lie cheat, and dishonesty, some Christian sect teaches not to gamble and some Christian sect teaches to moderate gamble but for me, you cannot serve two masters, you will hate the other and you will love the other.

these same priests are also liars, you must have seen a lot of news in which the priest had sex with a 15 year old child or even younger than 15 years old, so it starts from these same religious people to be very liars, of course excessive gambling generates addiction, but anything in excess generates addiction

[Naficopa]

I know that this is very silly and religious question but I think that this should be Discussed.
According to me, As I am Muslim, Gambling is Haram and there are very reasons behind this. And also I do not much about another religions. But if someone has knowledge about that if Gambling is allowed or prohibited in Jewish or Christ Faith. And I think many people have many mind sets.
I do not want to hurt someone's feeling by talking about Religious Comments.

Gambling is haram in islam and forbidden by majority of the religion since this is also a sin. But many people ignore the religion aspect upon gambling since majority think about pleasure when playing. Also religion cannot do anything with this since many people got influence by their environment if they see someone playing or if this is rampant on their neighborhood then they will follow it as they see some people having fun playing with it.

Gambling is prohibited in most of the religions as this is considered to be a wrong thing which encourages and provokes you to do illegal and harmful things . Excess of everything is bad when things go up the limit either its desires for money or desire for fame this is going to harm you in any way.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I know that this is very silly and religious question but I think that this should be Discussed.
According to me, As I am Muslim, Gambling is Haram and there are very reasons behind this. And also I do not much about another religions. But if someone has knowledge about that if Gambling is allowed or prohibited in Jewish or Christ Faith. And I think many people have many mind sets.
I do not want to hurt someone's feeling by talking about Religious Comments.

It is a very sensitive question you are asking in a place where most of the people have no knowledge about religion. And when you have a discussion with ignorant people you find yourself taking garbage knowledge and filling up your brain with those garbage. In most of the case, all of them are wrong information.

If you are really interested to know religious things then find a religious forum or reach out the religious leaders of the religion you follow. They will give you better knowledge and suggestions.

[gunhell16]

I know that this is very silly and religious question but I think that this should be Discussed.
According to me, As I am Muslim, Gambling is Haram and there are very reasons behind this. And also I do not much about another religions. But if someone has knowledge about that if Gambling is allowed or prohibited in Jewish or Christ Faith. And I think many people have many mind sets.
I do not want to hurt someone's feeling by talking about Religious Comments.

If we base it on the Bible, we won't see anything that mentions gambling or gambling here, even Lord Jesus Christ himself didn't mention it in the Bible, I'm not sure, I just don't know in the old testament if it was mentioned.

But even so, all the religions around the world today do not teach or say that gambling is good for everyone who tries it. All religions teach that it is not good to become a habit and it is bad.

[bittraffic]

In Christianity, there is no where gambling is mentioned in the bible that it is a sin. In the church, pastor will not even want to talk about gambling. But if a pastor is asked if gambling is a sin, he would say the love of money is the root of all evil and uses some chapters in the bible to discourage you which can be followed with some practical examples of how some people lost to gambling. All he will be pointing to is that it is better not to gamble.

But not where in the bible that gambling is referred to as a sin in christianity.

There is a chapter that mentioned, it's wrong in the bible. I remember a pastor who said it to me a long time ago but it's not really clear if it's what it means you may be interested to read it.

Proverbs 1:14. Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

Before you arrive at this Proverbs 1:14, you should first start reading from Proverbs 1:10 because that's when it says it's not good to follow what others do. How we interpret these words is just like how and what we want to hear.

[Genemind]

In Christianity gambling is wrong as it opposes the bible's teaching. If you look at 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils". As our preacher explains gambling leads you to be greedy. It can be associated with one's compulsion in gambling, or gambling addiction.