FAITH OF AMERICA. LINCOLN. LIBERTY.

FAITH  OF  AMERICA.  LINCOLN.  LIBERTY.

1. The 9-th portrait of the series, painted by Natasha Koff (the previous ones watch on the isaurian.blogspot.com for 23 June 2014; 28 June 2014; 07 July 2014; 29 July 2014; 13 August 2014; 08 September 2014; 02 October 2014 and 23 October 2014). The symbolic meaning of the portrait read further.

2. The portrait of the 16-th POTUS (in office 1861 – 1865) Abraham Lincoln symbolizes the Liberty, the Freedom. Standing fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free (Galatians, 5:1), Lincoln liberated the slaves, won the Civil War and prohibited the slavery in the USA with the 13-th Amendment of the US Constitution. He was murdered by the assassin, having become the true witness and martyr of Liberty. To understand the significance of Lincoln’s martyrhood it is necessary to remember the following points:

3. Liberty, according to the Roman Law, is the “original possibility to do, what one wants, if it is not restricted with law or violence”. Liberty is the public affair to defend which the state is established, while any duty or obligation is the private affair, put on oneself by a member of the society voluntarily.

4. The human society is the instrument to extract the material goods out of the nature. The state is the instrument to keep the society in the conditions of peace, to prevent the civil war inside the society.

5. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Corinthians, 3:17). According to this verse Lincoln, being the eagerly believing Bible Christian, did not register himself in any congregation. He was a “non-member Christian” to keep the religious freedom.

6. The Lincoln’s position demonstrates the development of the idea of liberty, which is the “true theodicy”: the primitive, primordial human being thought, that one was free; the antique man thought, that some were free; but only Christian understands, that liberty is the essence of human being as it is. Liberty is the gift of God; human being was created free.

7. Consequently, liberty is not a human act. Liberty is the hypostasis (the substance) of the Spirit, as weight is the hypostasis (the substance) of the matter. The same situation is with the religion: it is not the human act; religion is the self-conscience of the Spirit, thinking itself in the minds of the multitudes (“O Theos Avraam kai Isaak kai Iakoov” – Acts, Koine, 3:13; “The God Abraham” means hear “The God Multitudes”). “God is a Spirit” (John, 4:24). And the Spirit is the one to put in itself any concrete thing and to overcome it. The feeling of the concreteness is a suffering. The overcoming of the suffering is the attribute, the unalienatable feature of the Spirit. The same situation is with the faith. It is not the human act. It is the gift of God: “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians, 2:8). And “the faith is the substance of the things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen” (Hebrews, 11:1). According to the Koine text this thought is given more clear: “the faith (in Koine – “pistis”) is the hypostasis of the things hoped for, the practicing of the things not seen”.  

8. The God Almighty is the only source of freedom, religion and faith. He is the giver of freedom, religion and faith (pistis) from above – in Koine “Yperaspistaes” (LXX, Ps. 39:18). And these gifts are eternal; they are not the subjects of the time – in Koine “mae hronisaes” (LXX, Ps. 39:18). Time is the dynamic image of the eternity (watch “Darwin. Species. Bible.”, isaurian.blogspot.com, 23 March 2013). And the brevity of time is the possession of satan (Revelation, 12:12).

9. Peace unto you! (John, 20:19)

Stand fast in the liberty! (Galatians, 5:1)

Maranatha! (1 Corinthians, 16:22)

Professor   Nicholas Eugene Alyoshin

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