Subject: Take from the wicked give the righteous |
Bible Note: The whole question of the good (righteous?) versus the bad is wrapped up in the basic premise dealing with good and evil. Therefore, the answer I gave earlier to the question of "Why does God allow evil?" is relative directly to this question, too. As to whether gambling is good or bad is once again a question dealing with morality, and everyone knows morality is open to cultural interpretation; however, that being said, there are a very few basic things relative, that is, in an across-the-board way, to all cultures; these are the few moral platitudes that can be assumed as generally evil to all cultures and mankind in gneral. Most all of them concen the uninvited involvement of one person in another person's reality: if I were to kill you that would be universally wrong,because I would be violating the cross-cultural dictum against sticking my uninvited nose in another's reality, and in this case, in a very serious and permanently damaging way. If you will but think about it, you will see this is a good rule of thumb no matter what faith you are, to measure the value of a moral judgment against. Do unto others as they would want you to do unto them. That is the best way to put it. Jesus always put things in a succinct and non-ambiguous way. My wife wishes I would go and do likewise. |