Lucile Hill Walker’s Tested Divinity Candy Recipe

Does the Bible Prohibit Cremation? 1. Scripture says nothing about a required mode of burial for either believers or non-believers. However, burying the body was the standard practice among the Israelites in the Old Testament and Christians in the New (exceptions: 1 Sam. 31:8-13; Jos. 7:25). 2. Obviously any buried body will eventually decompose (Ecc. 12:7). So cremation isn’t a strange or wrong practice – it merely accelerates the natural process of oxidation. 3. The believer will one day receive a new body (1 Cor. 15:42-49; 1 Thes. 4:13-18; Job 19:25-26), thus the state of what remains of the old body is unimportant. 4. The imagery of Christ’s resurrection pictures burial and then a raising up from the dead (Rom. 6:3-5; 1 Cor. 15:3-4). Because of that, many Christians prefer burial to cremation to maintain a likeness to Christ's burial (although literally He was laid in state in a cave, not buried in the ground).

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2/3	c	Water
1	c	Light corn syrup
3	c	Sugar
1/2	c	Water
1	c	Sugar
3		Egg whites
1/8	t	Cream of tartar
		Pecans

INSTRUCTIONS

makes 1 1/2 - 2 pounds  To make the first syrup, mix together the
water, corn syrup, and  sugar. Place in a heavy saucepan and bring to
the boil. Boil until  the syrup reaches 250 F on a candy thermometer,
the firm ball stage.  When the syrup first begins to boil, prepare the
second syrup. Place  the water and sugar in a heavy pot, and cook over
low heat until the  sugar dissolves, then bring up to the boil.
Continue to boil until  the syrup reaches the firm ball stage, 250 F.
Meanwhile, beat the egg whites with the cream of tartar until they
form stiff peaks. Pour the first syrup into the egg whites very
slowly, beating all the time. Then slowly add the second syrup and
continue to beat until it loses its shiny look. Drop by teaspoonfuls
onto a sheet of wax paper, press a pecan on top, and let harden. This
candy will stay moist and manageable for hours if kept covered.  Recipe
is from New Southern Cooking by Nathalie Dupree.  Posted to EAT-L
Digest 14 Dec 96  From:    Felicia Pickering <MNHAN063@SIVM.SI.EDU>
Date:    Sun, 15 Dec 1996 10:15:52 EST

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“Death: the end of excuses, the beginning of eternity”

God's holiness and righteous glory have been desecrated, defamed, and blasphemed by our sin. It is with a holy God that we have to do in our guilt! And there can be no justification, no reconciliation, no cleansing of our conscience, unless the holiness of God is honored and the defamation of His righteousness is repaired. The urgency of our problem with guilt is not that we feel miserable, but that God's name has been blasphemed. We live in a day with such a horrendously inflated view of human potential and such a miserably tiny view of God's holiness that we can scarcely understand what the real problem of guilt is. The real problem is not, 'How can God be loving and yet condemn people with such little sins?' The real problem is, 'How can God be righteous if He acquits such miserable sinners as we?' There can be no lasting remedy for guilt which does not deal with God's righteous indignation against sin. That's why there had to be a sacrifice. And not just any sacrifice, but the sacrifice of the Son of God! No one else, and no other act, could repair the defamation done to the glory of God by our sins. But when Jesus died for the glory of the Father, satisfaction was made. The glory was restored. Righteousness was demonstrated. Henceforth it is clear that when God, by grace, freely justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5), He is not indifferent to the demands of justice. It is all based on the grand transaction between the Father and the Son on the morning of Good Friday at Calvary. No other gospel can take away our guilt because no other gospel corresponds to the cosmic proportions of our sin in relation to God.

John Piper