Dead man's hand Dead man's hand The dead man's hand is a nickname for a particular poker hand, popularly a two-pair of black aces and black eights, although definitions of the hand have varied through the years. Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book "Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers" led to the popular modern conception of the "dead man's hand" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's
What Is Man? (King essay) defines what the biblical writers meant when they said 'man is made in the image of God', and that he has 'rational capacity; he has the unique ability to have a fellowship with God. Man is a being of spirit'. King then defines the third doctrine of man which 'is the recognition that man is a sinner. Man is a free being made in the image of God'. Man also has the ability to 'choose between alternatives, so he can choose the good or the evil, the high or the low'. King then admits that 'man has misused his freedom'