‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’

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‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’

President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.

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Genesis 2:19 (BSB)

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Who names the world

The story is about human authority reshaping what a place is called, a small echo of humanity's given task to name creation. It is worth remembering that ultimate meaning and permanence rest with God, not with shifting human decrees.

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Genesis 2:19 (BSB)

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Ecclesiastes 1:4 (BSB)

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Names and borders shift by human decree, but the land and its Maker remain, a small reminder that lasting identity rests in God, not politics.

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Themes · naming and authority · local identity · political symbolism

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Genesis 2:19 (BSB)

OUR NOTE

Naming as an act given to humanity, here echoed in a modern political renaming.

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Romans 13:1 (BSB)

OUR NOTE

Civil authority to issue such orders is part of the God-ordained structure of governance, even in trivial matters.

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