God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
For my part, I had rather enjoy the sweet influences of the Spirit. I had rather show Christ’s spiritual divine beauty, infinite grace, and dying love. I had rather draw forth the holy exercises of faith, divine love, sweet complacence, and humble joy in God. I had rather experience all this for one quarter of an hour than to have prophetical visions and revelations the whole year.
The dead body of Jesus could not be found. There are four possible ways to account for this.
1. His foes stole the body. If they did (and they never claimed to have done so), they surely would have produced the body to stop the successful spread of the Christian faith in the very city where the crucifixion occurred. But they could not produce it.
2. His friends stole the body. This was an early rumor (Matthew 28:11-15). Is it probable? Could they have overcome the guards at the tomb? More important, would they have begun to preach with such authority that Jesus was raised, knowing that he was not? Would they have risked their lives and accepted beatings for something they knew was a fraud?
3. Jesus was not dead, but only unconscious when they laid him in the tomb. He awoke, removed the stone, overcame the soldiers, and vanished from history after a few meetings with his disciples in which he convinced them he was risen from the dead. Even the foes of Jesus did not try this line. He was obviously dead. The Romans saw to that. The stone could not be moved by one man from within who had just been stabbed in the side by a spear and spent six hours nailed to a cross.
4. God raised Jesus from the dead. This is what He said would happen. It is what the disciples said did happen. But as long as there is a remote possibility of explaining the resurrection naturalistically, modern people say we should not jump to a supernatural explanation. Is this reasonable? I don’t think so. Of course, we don’t want to be gullible. But neither do we want to reject the truth just because it’s strange.
Variations:
for Almond-Cocoa Biscotti: (omit cinnamon and raisins) add 3/4cup slivered,
toasted almonds, 2t almond extract and 1/3 cup cocoa
for Orange-Pistascio Biscotti: (omit cinnamon and raisins) add 3/4cup
toasted pistaccio nuts, 1T orange zest, 2T orange juice conc (the frozen
stuff), and you may need a little extra flour.
Beat egg whites and extracts (and orange juice, if using) together well.
Combine all the dry ingred. and add to the egg and mix well. Fold in the
raisins or nuts. The dough should be firm, but not too stiff. You may need
to add as much as 1/4cup more flour if your egg whites were large or you
are using the orange juice.
Divide the dough in half and shape each into a 'log' about 2" wide and
10"long. Place each on a greased cookie sheet and bake in a preheated oven
at 325F for 25-30 min.
They should be firm to the touch, but not too brown. Remove from the oven
and turn down the temp to 250F.
Slice each olg into 20-24 pieces and place upright (if you can balance
them!) on the cookie sheets. Return to the oven for about 30-40 min. The
thicker the slices, the longer it takes, but they should not brown too much
more. Cool them COMPLETELY before storing them in an airtight container.
The cinnamon/raisin ones have only a trace of fat per cookie and the ones
with nuts have 1.5g fat per cookie.
These are VERY crunchie and you really do need some tea or a nice skim
capiccino to dunk them in! Submitted By RHOMMEL <RHOMMEL@IX.NETCOM.COM> On
TUE, 21 NOV 1995 160438 ~0500
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini
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