Is Texas Hold’em a Sin?
After reading these arguments, please send me your critiques and thoughts. Above all it is most important that we submit to the Word of God. Below are Pastor John MacArthur’s statements (from his sermon transcripts) on Gambling listed out and summarized and my comments in parentheses). – Where there’s reasonable manageable risk, you don’t have gambling. (Texas Holdem has manageable risk) – Gambling is a game. It is not a game based on skill. (Texas Holdem is based on skill) – It is not a game based on reason. (Texas Holdem is based on reason, it’s unlike rolling dice) – It is not a game based on anything controllable. It is a game based on sheer chance. Gambling is an appeal to sheer chance, random luck without skill or one’s personal involvement. (There is no such thing as chance, as JM explains in the Battle for the Beginning series; Texas Holdem has skill and personal involvement) That’s gambling. It is an appeal to sheer chance without any control, purely random. (Texas Holdem has
