Sentences with phrase «dominion over the animal»

The moral law strictly limits our dominion over animal life.

He gave us dominion over animals; He gave people animals for food and gave us prayers to bless and sanctify what we eat.

Cared for by the angelic servants of God, Jesus simultaneously exercises Adam's dominion over the animals.

We must have dominion over the animals as God has dominion over the worlds.

They were to have perfect children, to extend the boundaries of their garden home earth wide, and to exercise loving dominion over the animals.

Doesn't Genesis 1:26 state that mankind has dominion over the animals?

Moreover, as the legendary «Lord of the Jungle,» he not only exercised dominion over the animal kingdom but over cannibalistic tribes eager to rape white women and to boil missionaries in a big pot.

Not exact matches

You assert that God gave humans dominion over all the plants and animals — therefore, Man is the predilect object of God's Creation.

Nor were animals and the forces of nature to be bowed down to by man as in pagan religion; rather man, as a rational being made in the image of God, was to exercise dominion over them.

The biblical understanding of having dominion over the earth is not rightly interpreted to mean that human beings are free to abuse animals.

«Let us make humankind in our image,» God says, «according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish,... birds, cattle,... all the wild animals... every creeping thing.»

alright - on the one hand, we have a group of good but insecure people who want to show that humankind has dominion over the earth and must therefore not do or show anything that relates us with animals - no skin, no cleavage, no suckling children, must stay clean and prim and proper (don't talk about bodily functions, either) so as to show how civilized and advanced we really are compared to the wild.

He doesn't want to be dogmatic, because the Bible doesn't explicitly say there aren't extraterrestrials... but it does say we supposedly have dominion over all the plants and animals... Genesis 1:26 would have to be dealt with, of course, if there were aliens... though perhaps not if the life - form were merely a form of moss or lichen... and there's no scriptural barrier to God's having designed a planet populated entirely by spatulas...

I'm sure there are many others who hold that view, and who'd point out that man — by virtue of that «dominion» he has over other animals, by virtue of being the superior, more developed being, by virtue of his position atop civilized society — has every right to chow down on his dog when trapped in the wilderness with no other options available.

Humans are any other animal and speaking of humans as if they are some outside force or thing that has dominion over earth is not only wrong, it's egotistical.

Our perceptions of a vast difference between the emotion experience of human and animals has afforded us the opportunity to presume dominion over them, limiting to what extent we will offer our sympathies and protection.