You might be surprised to discover the following principles in God’s Word:
(Or my search may not be representative of all the Christian materials available.) Nevertheless, it’s easy to get the impression that the Bible says little to guide us on the issue of gambling. Those other issues may be more pressing than gambling. The disparity of resources may be justified. A survey of websites devoted to approaching public policy from a Christian perspective likewise turns up a relatively small amount of material on gambling compared with the flood of resources applying the Bible to marriage, homosexuality, human exploitation, and abortion. For example, Wayne Grudem’s 600-page book on “politics according to the Bible” has only a page and a half devoted to gambling-and those pages don’t have a single specific Scripture reference. When the issue of gambling arises, debate can become a battle of conflicting statistics without the Bible coming up much.
