Last week, Linda and I were watching the local news. They were running a piece on a recent court decision in the western section of Jefferson County. The judge had ruled that some previously excluded gaming machines were in fact gambling devices and had to be shut down and removed by the end of February. After talking about the ruling, the reporter then interviewed two ladies individually. She asked the first lady if she agreed with the ruling and if she did why? The lady responded that she did agree and that she was against any kind of gambling because she was a Christian. They edited out the question on the second lady and took up her response in mid sentence as she was explaining that she was a Christian and that she thought games of chance were ok.
For some reason, this news piece reminded me of a guy I once worked with. He said that he believed that the Bible was the indisputable, inerrant word of God. He belonged to a denomination that believed that the drinking of alcohol was a sin. I asked him how he could feel that way about alcohol when Jesus himself had turned water into wine and that wine was mentioned repeatedly in the Bible. He told me that it was not wine they were talking about, it was grape juice and they were just calling it wine. I wonder if fornication was actually soccer and they were just calling it fornication???
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