As a philosophical idea, God’s decreeing of a thing has dominance over His seeing a thing beforehand. Even though…the word foreknowledge is more than pre-sight, we nonetheless cannot disregard the verity that God sees all things beforehand. Thus God’s seeing all things has forever been a reality to Him, and God’s determining all things has also been forever. These two have had eternal origins. As long as He has decreed, He has known; and as long as He has known, He has decreed. So, in one sense, we cannot put one philosophical idea ahead of the other in terms of time. Yet we can put one above the other in terms of dominance. If God has seen and determined at the same time, we cannot make His decreeing subservient to His knowing. The reason one is preceding the other in terms of force (not time) is that determination is a willful act of God, whereas seeing is a passive act. God cannot help but see all, but He wills to decree. Therefore what He determines, He sees; and what He sees, is determined. The force of decreeing a thing dominates the seeing.

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Seafood, Dairy, Meats		Seafood	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	pk	(8-oz) cream cheese
1/2	c	Sour cream
1/2	c	Milk
1/3	c	Green onions w/tops; chopped
3	c	Cooked rice
1	cn	(8-oz) crabmeat; flaked
2	md	Tomatoes; peeled, slice
		Salt to taste
3/4	c	Buttered bread crumbs

INSTRUCTIONS

Combine cream cheese, sour cream and milk; whip until smooth. Fold in
green onions, rice and crabmeat. Turn mixture into a buttered 2 quart
casserole. Arrange tomato slices over casserole mixture. Sprinkle with
salt; top with bread crumbs. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30
minutes.
Serves 6.
From <A Taste of Louisiana>.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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