He said Christians should «forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God's image and
given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.»
Now the aliens
hold dominion over the Earth, building shining cities that promise a brilliant future for humanity on the surface, while hiding a sinister intent below and eliminating all who don't fall in like with their new order.
Claude Pascal is said to have chosen words; Armand Fernandez
took dominion over earth; Yves Klein selected for himself «the void,» what we would now call «dark matter,» the empty — yet not empty — space that surrounds the planet.
While those efforts are relatively recent, Konisky said there is a historical divide in how Christians view their relationship to the planet: «Some believe in the importance of stewardship and practice an ethic of «creation care,» while others believe in
human dominion over the Earth, a belief that undermines any obligation to protect the environment.»
God gave
humanity dominion over the earth, but that does not mean we have a right to abuse and exploit it: The main themes of Catholic social teaching are present throughout Laudato Si, but the last of them — care for God's creation — finally gets the comprehensive treatment it deserves.
Can you set up God's [e] dominion over the earth?
When God created the Earth in the Bible in six days and gave Man asnd
Women dominion over the Earth, God gave us a responsibility to take care of the Earth (i.e. the Environment).
In Part 1 of this short series called «Satan Casts out Satan» we saw that although Satan
stole dominion over the earth from Adam and Eve, Satan loves nothing more than to use violence to get rid of violence, and in so doing, consolidate and amplify his own power over the earth.
You lead the heads of twelve tribes of unruly demons through a post-apocalyptic hellscape, battling against aliens and their army of bio-robots
for dominion over the Earth.
«And since the very first page of the good book asks us to exercise
careful dominion over the earth, environmental stewardship is a key tenet of many synagogues, mosques, and churches.»
Although the Copenhagen conference could have been criticized on many fronts, it is hard to imagine that Palin's remarkable statement represents anything other than a misplaced religious end - of - days argument of the type that asserts confidence in
human dominion over the earth — and that God will ensure the planet remains fine in the face of human progress, until God decides to end it all and the worthy ascend to heaven.
But when Adam and Eve sinned, when they fell to the temptation of the serpent, they forfeited
their dominion over the earth, and gave that authority to a different «god of this world.»
The dominion over the earth is understood as the rulership, control, or authority over the earth.
The great victory of the cross is that in killing Jesus, Satan unwittingly handed
the dominion over the earth back to Jesus.
Finally, God creates male and female human beings in God's image and gives
them dominion over the earth.
I wasn't put here to have
dominion over the Earth; I was put here to be a part of it.
Humankind has established
its dominion over the earth.
When people ask how could God let this happen, they forget that most Christians also believe there is a devil and he has
dominion over the earth.
Can you set up God's
dominion over the earth?
In Christian teaching, not only were there no gods of nature to take vengeance on humans who interfered with their domain, but also humans already had
dominion over the earth, granted by the one and only God.
The same principle applies to
dominion over the earth; when God gave us dominion over the earth, he did not intend for us to destroy his creation.
He also gave the sun, moon, and stars to rule over the heavens, and gave Adam and Eve the responsibility to rule and have
dominion over the earth.
We have
dominion over the earth but with an ability to receive help from heaven.
In part yes, historically «royalty» and religion were a symbiotic relationship — they «ruled by the grace of god» and the bible says they have
dominion over the earth.
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.
A scientist's quest to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease unintentionally results in a highly intelligent chimpanzee, which may signal the end of man's
dominion over Earth.
The generations - old conflict between the two tribes is an age - old one: The posterity of Cain believes humankind holds
dominion over the Earth and its resources; the line of Seth believes they are stewards of creation.
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.
Even if you believe in Genesis 1:26, that we are given
dominion over the Earth, you've got to think that when the landlord comes back and looks around he's going to be really disappointed.
And if it's within our power to «get onto a path that stabilizes climate», kinda sounds like he thinks we have «
dominion over the earth».
(Santorum has also said, «We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have
dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit.»)
At the root of this cultural crisis is an «anthropocentric assumption» that human beings have been given
dominion over the Earth.