""Also we can apply the commandment that 'Thou shalt not steal" in the context that gambling takes money from one person and gives to another. Ther are many other scriptures that we could also apply to gambling.""

That is arrant nonsense, since it cannot be called theft when the loser is willingly, even enthusiastically, complicit in the loss.

You believe that the bible is the word of God because the bible says so, thereby proving to your satisfaction the existence of God, and round and round.......

"Shallow oh shallow brain"

When you have finished with this discussion I have this amazing elixir for sale........call me.

Don T.