“Liberty and freedom” make up one, if not the central component of the American self-image. “In the Name of Freedom” is the title of a book by Gerhard Besier and Gerhard Lindemann that examines the “American mission.” Reviewer Detlev Junker is the founding director of the “Heilberg Center for American Studies.”
By Detlev Junker | 02/27/2006
THE FIRST BOOK OF GENESIS (GENESIS 1:1-2:4).
The Creation
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 And the earth was desolate and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the beginning of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
4 And God saw that the light was good. Then God separated the light from the darkness
5 And called the light Day and the darkness Night. And the evening and the morning became the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament between the waters, and let it be divided between the waters.
7 And God made the stronghold and divided the waters that were under the stronghold from the waters that were above the stronghold. And it was so.
8 And God called the firmament heaven. And the evening and the morning became the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under heaven be gathered together into one place, that dry things may be seen. And it happened so.
10 And God called the dry things Earth and the gathering of the waters he called Sea. And God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and herbage yielding seed, and fruitful trees yielding fruit every one after his kind, wherein is their seed upon the earth. And it came to pass thus.
12 And the earth caused to spring up grass and herb yielding seed, every one after his kind, and trees yielding fruit, wherein is their seed, every one after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, dividing the day from the night. They are signs for times, days, and years
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven, that they may shine upon the earth. And it was so.
16 And God made two great lights, a great light to rule the day, and a small light to rule the night, and also the stars.
17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven, to shine upon the earth.
18 And they ruled the day and the night and separated the light from the darkness. Freedom made in the USA
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly upon the earth under the firmament of heaven.
21 And God created great sea monsters, and every living creature that creepeth upon the face of the waters, every one after his kind; and every feathered fowl, every one after his kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea, and let the fowls multiply upon the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the field after their kind. And it was so.
25 And God made the beasts of the field, everyone after his kind, and the cattle after their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, to have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; and created them, male and female.
28 And God blessed them, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed upon the face of the whole earth, and every tree yielding fruit, for your meat.
30 But to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, have I given every green herb for meat. And it came to pass thus.
31 And God looked on all that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Then the evening and the morning became the sixth day.
Realization on 6.6.2023 during the morning run
God, as the creator of heaven and earth, saw again and again that what he had made was good.
Man is the problem, who can create evil with his wrongdoing?
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In the basement wardrobe hangs a down jacket branded “Liberty”. In the 3rd-floor clothes closet, there is a heavy-duty yellow yarn sweater, Liberty brand
America has changed for the worse lately; signs of the end times.
I myself believe in the 1000-year peace kingdom of the Bible that has already begun. However, the length of these 1000 years is completely open, as the apostle Peter said the following in the 90th Psalm:
4 For a thousand years are before you as the day that passed yesterday, and as a night watch.
And Switzerland?
With the climate protection law vote on June 18, 2023, the course will be set for a very long time.
A single political party is against it, the other parties are blind.
The climate belongs to the world created by God and can certainly not be changed by us humans.
But I trust in God, who does not make mistakes. I know this from the Bible.
Matthew 21:43:
43 Therefore I say to you: The kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who bear its fruit. 44 And whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be dashed to pieces; but upon whomsoever it shall fall, it shall crush him.