God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Special significance of the creation of male and female in the image of God:
1. It is only after God has created man that He says of all He has made: it is “very good” (1:31). This is not simply because God’s creative task is finished but because mankind is the pinnacle of all He has made.
2. The creation of man is introduced differently than other products of creative work, with the personal and deliberative expression, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.”
3. The one God who creates man as male and female deliberately uses plural references of himself (e.g., “Let Us,” “Our image,” “Our likeness”) as the creator of singular “man” who is plural “male and female.”
4. The “image of God” is stated three times in 1:26-27 in relation to man as male and female but never in relation to any other part of creation (are angels created in the image of God?).
5. The special term for God’s unique creative action, bara, is used three times in 1:27 for the creation of man in His image as male and female.
6. Man is given a place of dominion over all other created beings on the earth, thus indicating the higher authority and priority of man in God’s created design.
7. Only the creation of man as male and female is expanded and portrayed in detail as recorded in Gen. 2.
Even though (the Bible) is an ancient document, every person in every situation in every society that’s ever existed can find in this book things that endure forever. Here’s a book that never needs another edition. It never needs to be edited, never has to be updated, is never out of date or obsolete. It speaks to us as pointedly and directly as it ever has to anyone in any century since it was written. It’s so pure that it lasts forever.
CRUST
FILLING
TOPPING
Crust: Mix together butter and sugar in bowl until sugar dissolves. Stir in
vanilla and salt. Stir in flour 1/4 cup at a time until mixture comes
together in a ball. Pat on bottom and a half inch up the sides of a 7-inch
springform pan. Chill while preparing filling.
Fillling: Soak cranberries in Grand Marnier 1 hour. Meanwhile, blend cream
cheese, cream and sugar until light. Add eggs, one at a time until blended.
Scrape bowl occasionally. Stir in vanilla. Add salt. Stir in cranberries
and any remaining liqueur. Gently pour filling into prepared crust. Place
springform pan inside slightly larger pan. Add 1 inch water to outside pan.
Bake cheesecake at 300F 1 1/4 hours or until it no longer quivers. Turn off
heat. Let cheesecake rest in oven 30 minutes. Remove to cool at room
temperature 1 hour, then chill 3-4 hours.
Topping: Combine cranberries, Grand Marnier, sugar and grated rind in
medium pan. Cook over medium heat until cranberries burst and mixture is
thick and sauce-like, 15- 20 minutes.
To serve: Top each slice of cheesecake with a dollop of cranberry topping.
*Sauce should be distinctly sweet-tart. Recipe will vary according to
cranberries used. If too tart, add more sugar. If too sweet, add lemon
juice by the teaspoonful.
Recipe by: Akron Beacon Journal November 26, 1997
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 310 by Nancy Pallotta
<nancee@neo.lrun.com> on Nov 26, 1997
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“Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope. #Charles Spurgeon”
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