God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
It is not uncommon for Christians to claim that the saints of the Old Testament period experienced God’s Spirit in a fundamentally different manner from that of New Testament believers or modern Christians. Many have relied on specific idioms of the Old Testament to argue that the Holy Spirit only came upon people in the Old Testament but into people in the New Testament. Thus, the Holy Spirit was only bestowed temporarily, and then externally, to Old Testament believers as opposed to the permanent indwelling of the early church. Such preaching and teaching drives a wedge between the Testaments, placing too much emphasis on disunity rather than on mutual interdependence between the Old and New. This is an inadequate and incomplete understanding of the role of the Spirit in the Old Testament. Though the Spirit of God sometimes comes upon individuals in the Old Testament to empower for specific (and temporary) tasks, there can be no doubt that His role is also more extensive. He has an indwelling and transforming presence in the Old Testament believers as well and is described as the animating feature that effects spiritual renewal.
The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes (Walter Stace).
In medium bowl, combine cottage cheese, cream cheese, butter, parsley, egg,
green onion and salt. Spoon 3 table- spoons of cheese mixture into center
of each cooked crepe. Roll up; place in shallow baking pan. Pour sauce over
filled crepes; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake in 350 degrees oven for
20 to 30 minutes. Makes 8 crepes.
Recipe by: diane@keyway.net
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 273 by "Diane Geary"
<diane@keyway.net> on Nov 18, 1997
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