The pre-sight view of election makes God seem absurd in His language if not somewhat dishonest. You see, God has gone to great lengths to say that some are elected, chosen, foreordained, predestined as part of His eternal purpose. For God to say that He saw those that would choose Him and then He calls them elect (select from a number) is linguistic trickery. It is like the Queen decreeing that the sun will rise in the morning, as others have said. God’s words about His action toward man would mean nothing but could only be construed as a way of presenting an authoritative front that God is in charge, whereas the decisions of eternal life and death are really within man alone. Apply this to prophecy. Much of prophecy is presented to us as that which God determines to do in the future. Is this the truth of it? Did God prophesy that John the Baptist would be the forerunner of the Messiah (Isa. 40:3-5; Luke 3:3-6) on the basis of pre-sight, and then declare that it would happen? Doesn’t language lose all meaning to say that? Does it not make sense of the language to say that the action predicted was based on God’s determined plan and not just what He saw happening?

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Cookies, Kids, Easybake	12	Cookies

INGREDIENTS

1	tb	Powdered sugar
2	tb	Margarine
1/4	ts	Vanilla extract
1/2	ts	Water
1/4	c	All-purpose flour
		Your favorite jelly

INSTRUCTIONS

Stir together powdered sugar, margarine, vanilla, water and flour until the
flour disappears.  Roll the dough between your fingers and make 12 small
balls, 1/2 inch each.  Place a few balls at a time on an ungreased sheet or
pan with space between them.  Press your thumb into the middle of each ball
to make a thumb print.  Bake 10 to 12 minutes, then remove. Repeat until
all the cookies are baked.  When the cookies are cool, fill each thumb
print with jelly.  Makes 12 cookies.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #008 by valerie@nbnet.nb.ca (valerie) on Jan
8, 1998

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