God and Cybergod II

Let's continue our post about an online poker conversation which one player didn't seemingly want to have.  First we reminded "Cybergodsig" he wasn't god.  Now let's pick up the chat in progress....


Pokerpiz eliminated from the tournament (he/she has lost all his/her chips)
Me: very good
Cybergodsig: *** talker
THEWIZ: TY
Me: So this game
Me: should have no chat?
Cybergodsig: awwww
Cybergodsig: feelings hurt

How interesting -- he says our feelings are hurt, when he is the one who made a fuss about talking at the table in the first place.  That's the sort of blame-shifting a real God does not accept.  And God saw it as early as the garden of Eden:

And he said, "Who told you that you were naked?  Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"  The man said, "The woman you put here with me -- she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." - Genesis 3:11-12

We've heard several ministers point out recently Adam not only blamed Eve for his disobedience -- he even blamed God, for putting Eve with him at all.  God wound up kicking Adam out of the garden, and cursing the tempting serpent as well (verses 14-15, 23-24).

So were our feelings hurt?  No....


Me: No asking
supertjc won Main pot 65,216 with One pair, aces
Me: Have you suggested
Me: that to NLOP?

Every online poker game we've ever played has some kind of "chat" function.  At least it gives play-by-play of the game -- who wins pots and who's been eliminated from the table.  We've noticed not many players use it, but few make a big issue about our comments.

If Cybergodsig had been polite in his request to tone down the chat (or at least given a reason why he wanted it), we probably would have done so.  We're reminded of this Biblical guidance:

There is a time for everything.... a time to be silent and a time to speak. - Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7

But instead of answering our question, this was the response which pretty much ended the discussion:

Cybergodsig: thin skin dies

Cybergodsig: same in life

Well, let's be more accurate.  Sooner or later, all skin dies.  We're all facing an appointment with death someday (Hebrews 9:27).  The big question is: what will happen to you after that?

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.  After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh shall I see God. - Job 19:25-26 (KJV text and margin)

Job's skin had "painful sores" all over it, from Satan's persecution (Job 2:7) -- yet he maintained hope of seeing a "Redeemer" in a resurrection!  How much did he understand Jesus Christ?  The book of Job doesn't offer a direct answer.  But we encourage you to understand Jesus better, and have hope the true God will redeem you from death to eternal life.