pickinvet

Hey everyone, nice to finally start bouncing back last week hopefully it will continue... way below my usual winning % this year... but sitting at 9-11 and hoping to still finish strong... anyway this week I will be buying the hook on all three picks, as I don't want pushes right now..

Washington +7.5

Det - 2.5

Seattle +3.5


GL guys

you know Atlanta is a dome team right? 

Jets +3

Atl +4.5  hook

Hou +3.5


Also playing a teaser in addition to the Top 3 it is...

GB-2
Bal -1

Moving in the right direction going 2-1 last week... hoping to continue the trend... here are the picks...


 Pats - 6

 Balt - 7

 Miami +8

Hey guys.. been a slow start this year... slowest in 7 years of handicapping... but as they say its a sprint and not a marathon... last two years I've hit at a 75% and 65% clip here on covers... and even though things have been rough starting this year... sitting at 3-8-1 which is painful to even post, not to mention go through on sundays...

but aside from a couple games that were clear misses... I feel like the picks have been pretty much the same as in year's past but just need the ball to start bouncing my way a few times

You have to think that somewhere a hot streak will come somewhere to even it up a bit.. like last years 9-1 finish to the reg season... and the season prior the 13-2 run over a 5 week span mid season... so it can happen... hopefully its this week but if not.. going to make sure and stick it out....


 NYG -9

 Minn - 2.5

Over 51  Saints/Panthers

 Minn  Pk
 
 Tenn Pk

 Pitt +3.5

Sea +3.5

 KC +16

 Cincy -2.5

Skins -3

Rams +7

 Bears +7

Hey Guys,

 Haven't posted yet this year, didn't do anything in the preseason this year... but back in here for week 1... last season was good going 48-26... taking my overall covers record to 70-34... well on to week 1 picks....


  Indy +8.5

  Denver - 3

  Carolina +7

hey everyone, was gone hiking yesterday, but will respond to the new posts (past #37) later tonight

huck finn

Hi Taco, the question you raise is a good one as even within christianity there is some divide when it comes to these kind of things... for instance its hard to tell for sure where the line is drawn between and all knowing, loving god... and the freewill and choice of man etc..

 What they can agree on is that the bible, clearly states reward for the innocent that suffer and things of that nature, also a lot of the teachings from Jesus in the bible encourage followers to help the poor and to do whatever they can for those in need etc... he says, "that which you do for the least of you, you do for me" 

 It is generally accepted as fact that according to the bible the world will always be rife with injustice and unfair suffering etc... until the new heavens/earth in revelation.  Its important to remember that death in itself for all humans regardless of your deeds or beliefs stem back to the original sin of adam and eve and the forbidden fruit.

 Lastly the bible is clear that there are things that will appear to not make since to us and our understanding of the world etc... to us it seems like a grave injustice and an indictment against god that the things you mention occur, but its fair to note we only have rational knowledge of what is here, and not what is beyond.... if the afterlife was indeed far better than life on earth... then suddenly what we see as a terrible atrocity becomes a little less clear.  

its in line with human nature... consider many cultures in the world consider it a sign of great disrespect to look at an elder, or someone you should revere in the eye, also in many cultures its respectful to bow to someone as a sign of respect and reverence, the act of bowing causes one to turn their face toward the ground, therefore not looking at the person of respect etc...

 the fact that theses cultures have basis in non-christian beliefs and still employ a connection with not looking at someone, as being a way to respect them or put them above you etc... speaks more to that nature being rooted in human nature atleast in some way

as an ultimate statement of humility, as the ultimate recognition that god is superior the them (man) and hence when God sees this as good, he acknowledges their humility and willingness to exhalt god far beyond anything else as being good and proceeds to tell them of the new way of communication between man and god that is to come. 

good question biscuit... I think a lot of people probably thing, "why did god used to speak and show himself to people directly, but none of that happens and were just supposed to believe in Jesus"

its important to point out that it isn't a mystery as to why, in the bible in either Jeremiah or Ezekiel it is written, that the people thought it best to not see god and god saw that it was good (basically means the humility in it was by all accounts pure and good) at that point in time, god says that he will not show himself or speak directly to the people anymore...

Instead he says he will raise one up from among them, and no deceit will be found on his lips etc... and he will be man's connection to god from that point on.  This and a whole lot more is why Christians believe in Jesus.

So knowing that, it is also written that by the end times that the gospel will be preached to the whole entire world, basically the whole globe will be given the chance to learn about god and Jesus.  Estimates right now is that over 90% of the world geographically has been exposed to christian ministry. 

Also its important to point out that Christianity is by far the most popular religion worldwide and claims the most members,  there are far more people who believe in Christianity than any other belief in the world.

Lastly, will you feel the fires for using the name in vain?  according to the bible you wouldn't a main theme in the bible is the imperfectness of man, and the inevitability to make mistakes, but that there is a way to be forgiven and to achieve what you couldn't on your own... this is why they call the gospel the "good news"

To those who don't know the bible too much, no that anyone that preaches a brand of Christianity that focuses on your deeds and actions either good or bad, as a way to potentially allow you admittance or deny you from heaven etc... does so on their own accord and is complety opposite from the bible

There are other cases of contemporary societies that acknowledge in their unbias records and writings the existence of Jesus, and the general knowledge that he performed unexplainedable feats (miracles)

 At the time this would have been generally known as fact, and the question was more, is this guy really from God or not? 

I'll still bite though... this is regarding your statement that this isolated mammal fossil is more proof than I would have for Jesus performing miracles..

 by the nature of the actions, someone performing a miracle would be tough to prove with physical evidence as the only thing left behind would be the impression on other people, which would be refleted in writing and record keeping etc...

 Consider that the person, which everyone knows, were against Christ and didn't believe he was the prohpesied messiah, say in their own writings that Jesus performed miracles in front of multitudes of people etc...  the thing with the person is that they didn't believe he did these things by the power of God... 

 This is the closest we have, and the closest you could have in this kind of situation to proof, why would defacto enemies of Christ admit and therefore lend some credence to Jesus by acknowledging the miracles and supernatural occurences, admission by the person in this case speaks to the authenticity of the miracles more strongly than anything else could. 

I believe I've already provided a lot of proof that the bible is divinely inspired in my earlier posts.. and there is a lot more to boot, while it would be hard to prove the things you mention, it seems the bible has proved itself time and time again by other means, like what I've mentioned... so at that point its reasonable to believe the things that aren't especially when nothing has been disproven

 To each their own for sure, like i said I'm not trying to sway anyone any one way particularly, but I do feel strongly that things should be portrayed in a more accurate fashion to us in our contemporary time and culture... let one make up there own minds, of course, but be given all the info fairly

its really as simple as this, if Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution were true, it wouldn't take years to find isolated findings to try to back up the theory... instead, there would be tons of fossils of these interim man/monkeys all over the place... and that isn't the case... so while it does nothing to prove the creationist beliefs,  it does disprove darwins Theory, I can say with great confidence if Charles Darwin was alive today he himself would admit the theory is incorrect

One skeletal find is hardly any prove, Darwin states in his own literature in order for the theory to be correct there would have to be tons of fossil findings for all the different interim species etc...  

 This find is really no different than what has been purported from time to time in this area for the last 30 years... others just like this (in principle) have been discovered and later debunked....

 As far as the 6-10k year old earth, all I'm saying is that it is spread and taught that it is fact that things are millions of years old etc... and its not fact the base numbers (not the scale) originally come from theory...