Name: Shoney's Strawberry Pie
Ingredients: 1 c Sugar; 3 tb Cornstarch; 1 7-Up; Red food coloring; 1 pt Fresh strawberries; Whipped cream

The pre-sight view of election makes God seem absurd in His language if not somewhat dishonest. You see, God has gone to great lengths to say that some are elected, chosen, foreordained, predestined as part of His eternal purpose. For God to say that He saw those that would choose Him and then He calls them elect (select from a number) is linguistic trickery. It is like the Queen decreeing that the sun will rise in the morning, as others have said. God’s words about His action toward man would mean nothing but could only be construed as a way of presenting an authoritative front that God is in charge, whereas the decisions of eternal life and death are really within man alone. Apply this to prophecy. Much of prophecy is presented to us as that which God determines to do in the future. Is this the truth of it? Did God prophesy that John the Baptist would be the forerunner of the Messiah (Isa. 40:3-5; Luke 3:3-6) on the basis of pre-sight, and then declare that it would happen? Doesn’t language lose all meaning to say that? Does it not make sense of the language to say that the action predicted was based on God’s determined plan and not just what He saw happening?

Jim Elliff

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sugar
3	tb	Cornstarch
1		7-Up
		Red food coloring
1	pt	Fresh strawberries
		Whipped cream

INSTRUCTIONS

Cook sugar, cornstarch and 7-Up until creamy. Add red food coloring and
cool. Combine with fresh strawberries. Pour into cooked pie crust with a
little sugar on the bottom. Add whipped cream.
Posted to EAT-L Digest  by Shawn Zehnder Lea <[email protected]>
on Nov 25, 1997

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