Sentences with phrase «dominion over all other creatures»

Human beings, made in the likeness of God, have tended to understand their dominion over other creatures in terms of such unilateral control.

Following the biblical injunction, we have felt that we have dominion over all other creatures and indeed that the whole created universe exists simply to serve our own needs.

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By contrast, the Genesis injunction to man to have «dominion» over the other creatures does actually mean «domination»» hence it should be «retired.»

Adam and Eve are diferent from the other creatures, being made in God's own image, an extraordinary claim, and having dominion over the world.

To some degree it must do, since it is improbable that any writer would make God give even a shadow of his own unique likeness to a Creature that had nothing in common with him; and this common - sense conclusion is confirmed by the fact that God entrusts to man dominion over his new and wonderful earth and its other inhabitants.