But that Jesus of Nazareth could be the expected Messiah, as His disciples maintained, was out of the question. It is unlikely that the status, career and teaching of Jesus conformed in any way with Paul’s conception of the status, career and teaching of the Messiah – but that was not the conclusive argument in Paul’s (pre-converted) mind. The conclusive argument was simply this: Jesus had been crucified. A crucified Messiah was a contradiction of terms.

F.F. Bruce

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Desserts, Cookies	30	Cookies

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Flour
1/2	c	Cocoa
1/2	ts	Salt
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/4	ts	Baking soda
1/2	c	Softened butter
1	c	Sugar
1		Egg
1 1/2	ts	Vanilla
1		10 oz jar marasch. cherries
1		6 oz pkg choc chips
1/2	c	Sweetened condensed milk

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a large bowl, stir together flour, cocoa,
salt, baking powder and baking soda. In a mixing bowl, beat together butter
and sugar on low speed of electric mixer until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla;
beat well.  Stir in dry ingredients; mix well. Shape dough into 1-inch
balls; place on ungreased cookie sheet. Press in center and place drained
cherry in center of each cookie. In small saucepan, combine chocolate chips
and milk until chocolate is melted (or heat in microwave oven). Stir in 1
tablespoon of drained liquid from cherries. Spoon 1 tablespoon of
chocolate/milk mixture over each cherry. Bake for 10 minutes.

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