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 We need to understand the main source of distress. The source is that people turned away from
-the lord. They did not search the Lord of hosts. It is the first commandment, which was violated
+the Lord. They did not search the Lord of hosts. It is the first commandment, which was violated
 first. He IS the creator. He is the Lord. He is the beginning and the end. And he is truth,
 mercy, dignity, value. He loves each and every human. God can only be God, he can only be who
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 ** Our Life ... **
+God is justice and mercy. He demands justice and mercy. He demands honesty. He demands fidelity.
+He demands us to recognize reality - which means that he is Lord and is acknowledged as Lord.
+Let us think, for a moment, about a world without God. Assume he is not there - or alternatively
+assume that mankind has forgotten him and he stays out. What will happen? Humans will behave
+as humans without God. They will follow their goals and desires, they have their own ideas and
+concepts about life. What will we get?
+It is difficult to project! We can say that we will get a lot of what we have today - humans
+have always tried to suppress other humans, to use force to realize their will. But Christian
+faith had a huge impact on the development of the world. Would it have turned completely
+evil without Christianity? Would it have discovered the ethics of love and truth? Even
+the enlightenment and the western world with its democratic movement was strongly influenced
+by Christian activity, by the reformation and its liberation of thought, its shift towards the
+individual. The bible sees the individual with its faith, the single human, who can approach
+God as he or she is. Putting the individual into the centre of its
+attention is a very Christian approach, since through Jesus God approaches each and every
+human and offers his love, truth, salvation and company.
+It seems we can choose: God gives us the freedom to loose him. Then our horizon is what we
+can see within creation. Life and death is our framework. We are also given the freedom to
+find him. HE is searching you and me to find us. When we find him, our horizon changes.
+Death looses its sting. And the whole concept of life receives an extended framework, it is
+filled by his spirit. That is what he calles life after all.
 (Roland Potthast)