Why Playing Poker and Gambling is a Sin

I got interested in poker by watching The World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel. I then started playing poker with play money online, but God scolded me and did not want me to play poker. I even had thoughts of becoming a professional poker player, after all, there is no place in the Bible that says "thou shalt not play poker," or even "thou shalt not gamble."

God did not even like me to play poker with play money, which is all I ever did, not having enough money to actually play for real money. I just could not understand why I could not at least play poker with play money.

I asked God why it is that I cannot play poker and then I had a dream; in this dream there were three guys inside a small rundown eatery, a real greasy spoon, but it had lots of people buying food through the drive-up window. One of the guys said he would like to eat some human flesh but there was none available, so he said "I will just pretend that this food here is human flesh" and proceeded to eat. When finished he said, "yum, that was good tasting human flesh," even though it really was not.  I then took up a plate and pretended to eat, even though there was no food at all on the plate; then I said, “this pretend human flesh sure is good.”

I either partly awoke at that point or continued to dream; I asked God what the meaning was and it came to me that whenever a person wins money in gambling at a casino, it is taking money from someone else who had already lost money to the casino. It was not merely taking money from casinos, because they would not have any if they did not take money from millions of people every day.

Because winning money gambling was taking money from regular people, it is sort of like eating human flesh. And playing poker or other gambling type games with play money is like pretending to eat human flesh, because you are pretending to take money from people.