[a case for christ]

Well, hardcorebeats, with all due respect how do you know? I have lived a sinful life, your life, and now I have experienced the peace of being forgiven. I have tasted both lives and much prefer the second. Why so bitter hardcorebeats? How can you claim to JUDGE until you've tasted the freedom that comes with having a personal relationship with Jesus? In the meantime, you'll just be making fun, which is actually in the Bible. It's called mocking God, and it's what all people who aren't saved do. Do you see if you don't serve Jesus you are serving someone else? But I'm sure you're such an 'intellectual' that you don't have to read anything, you know all there is to know....party on dude.

[a case for christ]

Daniel, I've read both the Case for Christ and the Case for Faith and they changed my life. The fact of the matter is most people don't want to believe God because they fear "The Man" or "The Government" is going to run their life. But I say to that, "Don't let man be the reason you refuse to trust God". Here you have some guy (Lee Strobel), who used to be a professing atheist, set out to disprove the Bible but only finds evidence to support Jesus is the Son of God. And that's something that we must all consider. Jesus claimed to be God. Muhammed, Ghandi, Budda - they never made such claim. Maybe their followers made that claim for them, but they never made it themselves. Most people do not even know this bit of trivial knowledge nor do they care. "I just believe that all long as you're generally good you'll make it into heaven!" How many times have I heard that statement! We don't make the rules people...God does! He loves us and all we have to do is accept and believe the sacrifice he made FOR us. But we can't even do that can we? I'm not trying to put an unbeliever down or anything because we were all unbelievers at one point. I'm just trying to point out the arogance that unbelievers have. They lack humility. It's not their fault of their own though, that's a God given gift and Negraneu clearly has it. He's doing you all a huge favor as a celebrity and abasing himself to be with the likes of us. And what do we do? We say, 'thanks....thanks for nuthin'. I have a high respect for Negreanu because I'm sure he has taken hits from the Christian community as well because 'gamblin' just aint right'. Can't you see that Negreanu is a true Christian whereas many who claim to be Christains aren't? Please, open your eyes and DON'T LET MAN KEEP YOU FROM BELIEVING IN GOD! Do a little digging to find the truth...it's out there but we're too self centered or busy to lift a finger to find it."Yeah, churches are just in it because of the money.""Yeah, priests diddle little boys" (big trucker laugh)"I aint going to church, God loves me just the way I am""Churches, that's just religion man....and churches were created by the government because they wanna control you man and charge you extra for gas!""Well, Jesus always did turn the water into wine!""I can worship God at home by watching him on TV." (But do you?)And by the way, the poster that said Daniel wasn't an intellectual BECAUSE he's happens to believe in God, that's a neo-con type of attack if I ever heard one.Acts 4:12 - "Neither is there salvation in ANY other (meaning Jesus), for there is none other name under heaven, given among men whereby we must be saved."Eph 2:8-9 - "By grace are we saved through FAITH, and not that of OURSELVES. It is the gift of God, lest any man should boast."Romans 10:9 - "That if you CONFESS with your mouth the lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God rose him from the dead, you will be SAVED."You don't have to be perfect, but you must admit you're a sinner & in need of forgiveness."Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." - Jesus & John the Baptist.

[Quiz Question #14]

Im posting this without looking at any of the replys first. I do this because I don't want to be swayed one way or the other.I think the 7 7 8 is the better flop. For one, your raised before the flop, got 2 cold callers and the other 2 just completed thier bets. This tells me everyone has either really high cards like AK, or pocket pairs. If it's pocket pairs, your QQ is surely a favorite, but more often than not the odds are sligtly better that it's 2 high cards like AK, AQ, or KQ. Another thing to consider is the board paired. If you do catch a Queen, you will now win most likely with your full house whereas the other flop is ragged and the best you can hope for is 2 pair which would be beat if anyone holds that King. Now, I do watch High Stakes Poker and have seen DN cold call with suited connectors and he won that pot when a flop such as 778 came up. The villian had AK and he had to throw it away because he knew DN has a thing for suited connectors. In this way it helps to know your opponent. But without any knowledge of my opponent I would put everyone on High Cards and once that overcard King hit I would junk my hand knowing that I was beat - especially with 4 other people in the pot.