{"id":57801,"date":"2023-02-17T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=57801"},"modified":"2023-02-17T03:02:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T09:02:57","slug":"playing-the-odds-or-playing-god-how-gambling-is-an-affront-to-gods-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=57801","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Odds or Playing God: How Gambling is an Affront to God\u2019s Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&rsquo;s Note: This week&rsquo;s mini-series on the Grace and Truth blog addresses the issue of gambling. In this final article, Josh Weidmann explores how gambling is an affront to God&rsquo;s sovereignty. In other contributions to the series, Jim Newheiser considers the question of whether Christians are free to participate in gambling, and Andy Farmer offers a biblical reason not to gamble drawn from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/02\/17\/playing-the-odds-or-playing-god-how-gambling-is-an-affront-to-gods-sovereignty\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gambling, betting, and online gaming for money happen when we seek fortune and act as if we can control the future; this does not delight God and takes away from His rightful role as Provider and Lord over our future. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":57803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[445,242,1172,5237,5238],"class_list":["post-57801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-addiction","tag-addictions","tag-gambling","tag-gaming","tag-sports-betting","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-8.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57804,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57801\/revisions\/57804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}