At the end of the creation account, God
gives dominion over the earth to mankind — the pinnacle of His creation.
Finally, God creates male and female human beings in God's image and
gives them dominion over the earth.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
There are so many contradictions in the bible, not only to what science has proven... (Adam was not created first and
given dominion over the creatures of the
earth as Genesis states) Dinosaurs inhabited
earth for millions of years, millions of years before the first bipeds roamed.
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.»
Christianity has been subject to much recent criticism for its acquiescence — even encouragement — of the exploitation of nature, said to be based on the verse in Genesis where God
gave man «
dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle and
over all the
earth» (Genesis 1, 26 AV.).
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).
Man is
given dominion over all things on the
earth (Genesis 1:28) and science may be thought of as one form of such
dominion.
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.
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.
The hotly anticipated film is the culmination of a thread that's run through much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the end of 2012's The Avengers, with Thanos and his minions the Black Order arriving on
Earth in a quest for the remaining Infinity Stones, powerful cosmic artifacts that, when assembled as part of the Infinity Gauntlet, will
give him
dominion over the universe.