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I dunno, cause the act of selling/buying drugs, stolen money, and all is an ''evil'' act. Like it's not of God's will for people to buy and sell drugs, to steal, and so on. The act/deed is evil, it's of the enemy.
However, if someone is in a church doing those things, and they give the money to the church, I think God can and will bless it for the church use, to help honor and glorify the Lord and all. The people in the church don't know it's money from something that's wrong, I don't think God would punish them for that.
Just an opinion and guess though, don't hold me to that lol.
The only verse I can give on money, is 1 Timothy 6:10 where it says the LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
Not the money, but the love of it. Greedy people, loving money more than God. Misusing money, for bad/evil/wrong things, and all that.
However, if someone is in a church doing those things, and they give the money to the church, I think God can and will bless it for the church use, to help honor and glorify the Lord and all. The people in the church don't know it's money from something that's wrong, I don't think God would punish them for that.
Just an opinion and guess though, don't hold me to that lol.
The only verse I can give on money, is 1 Timothy 6:10 where it says the LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
Not the money, but the love of it. Greedy people, loving money more than God. Misusing money, for bad/evil/wrong things, and all that.
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I agree with stand_up.
God does strange things sometimes. lol He told a lady to play bingo for money one night. She thought it was very odd, but went and actually won the pot. She had been in a big financial bind and had been praying for God to supply her needs, trusting in Him who can do all things. She doesn't believe that gambling is right, and wouldn't do it unless God told her to again.
God does strange things sometimes. lol He told a lady to play bingo for money one night. She thought it was very odd, but went and actually won the pot. She had been in a big financial bind and had been praying for God to supply her needs, trusting in Him who can do all things. She doesn't believe that gambling is right, and wouldn't do it unless God told her to again.
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I believe it would be highly unwise to see the act of doing bad/immoral things to achieve a greater good as a viable Christian option.
Basically, when we ask "Do the ends justify the means" the answer is no. If I sell heroine and give the money to my church, then I am basically saying that it is ok to destroy the lives of all the addicts I've supplied, aid the drug lords I've kept in power, and contributed to the gang/drug related violence associated with my trade just so my church can feed/clothe/shelter/evangelize some people.
In poorer countries where people have no real options for a decent life for themselves and their families, it is often understandable (but not correct) for people to earn a living doing immoral things. In a place like the United States, there really is no excuse to turn to these activities to earn a living. There is another way. It might not be fast and easy, but there are other moral ways to survive.
All of our money has "In God We Trust" printed on it somewhere. It is unwise to blaspheme the name of God by using money to do sinful things. It is just as bad to justify those things for the "greater good." In the case of a drug dealer giving money to the poor, what good has he really done? If he helps 10 poor people with cash, how many other lives has he destroyed by leading them to addiction, poverty (drugs are expensive), crime, violence...etc?
Evil begets evil. It can only lead to evil. Evil never creates good. By it's own nature, evil is self-destructive.
Basically, when we ask "Do the ends justify the means" the answer is no. If I sell heroine and give the money to my church, then I am basically saying that it is ok to destroy the lives of all the addicts I've supplied, aid the drug lords I've kept in power, and contributed to the gang/drug related violence associated with my trade just so my church can feed/clothe/shelter/evangelize some people.
In poorer countries where people have no real options for a decent life for themselves and their families, it is often understandable (but not correct) for people to earn a living doing immoral things. In a place like the United States, there really is no excuse to turn to these activities to earn a living. There is another way. It might not be fast and easy, but there are other moral ways to survive.
All of our money has "In God We Trust" printed on it somewhere. It is unwise to blaspheme the name of God by using money to do sinful things. It is just as bad to justify those things for the "greater good." In the case of a drug dealer giving money to the poor, what good has he really done? If he helps 10 poor people with cash, how many other lives has he destroyed by leading them to addiction, poverty (drugs are expensive), crime, violence...etc?
Evil begets evil. It can only lead to evil. Evil never creates good. By it's own nature, evil is self-destructive.
If you know gambling is wrong, then that would not be God telling you to do that but satan. Satan offered Jesus the whole world remember, he certainly can give people riches as well if he wants to. God would not tell a person to do something against their faith/beliefs that they believe come from Him in the first place. If it was truly God, I guess is proves that gambling isn't a sin.
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I have to say no.
Look at the old testament, almost every time the Israelites got in trouble it's because they took goods or a cloak or whatever when they should just left it. I'm too tired to cite all the proof so just check out 1& 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings.
Also, there are a ton of verses about this in Proverbs.
1.) Proverbs 1:19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
2.) Proverbs 10:2 Ill gotten treasures are of no value, but righteousness delivers from death.
3.) Proverbs 13:11
Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.
There is also a verse in Micah about cursed blood money and of course Judas's blood money. Acts 1:18-19,Judas's money for his sin bought the field that would become his grave.
I think the only way God would bless blood money is if the person holding it made things right.
Look at the old testament, almost every time the Israelites got in trouble it's because they took goods or a cloak or whatever when they should just left it. I'm too tired to cite all the proof so just check out 1& 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings.
Also, there are a ton of verses about this in Proverbs.
1.) Proverbs 1:19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
2.) Proverbs 10:2 Ill gotten treasures are of no value, but righteousness delivers from death.
3.) Proverbs 13:11
Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.
There is also a verse in Micah about cursed blood money and of course Judas's blood money. Acts 1:18-19,Judas's money for his sin bought the field that would become his grave.
I think the only way God would bless blood money is if the person holding it made things right.
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