Sentences with phrase «has dominion over earth»

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.

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.

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

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.

(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.»)

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.

GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Men and women are made for one another, to be fruitful and replenish the earth, and to have dominion over it.

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.).

Satan had wanted to be like God, and in gaining dominion over the earth, he became a god.

In documenting the first indictment authors often cite Genesis 1:26: «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.»

Some also quote Genesis 1:29: «Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.»

Tracing the roots of this false reality principle to the Hebrew Bible itself, Roszak, among others, considered the heart of the ecological crisis to be the biblical injunction to conquer and subdue the earth and have dominion over it.

The sensual one will not slip past death, who has dominion over what belongs to the earth and who will change into nothing the one thing which the sensual person desires.

And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.»

In seeking to root out man's claim to a special status in the universe, deep ecologists are pagan pantheists who reject biblical religion, especially the injunction of Genesis 1:28 to «Fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the seas, the birds of the sky, and all the living beings that move on this earth.»

And God blessed them, and God said to them, «Be fruitful and multiply, and till the earth and subdue it; and have dominion... over every living thing that...

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

Now that Pentecost has come, the primal divine command to have dominion over creation requires the church to get on with good stewardship of the earth.

Why couldn't there have been a Native American tribal leader to whom God whispered truth about His creative power and His dominion over all the earth?

Then God said, «Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.»

«And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let THEM have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.»

26Then God [Elohim] said, «Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon 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.

God commands us to «be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over... every living thing that moveth upon the earth.»

NewYorkGal12, Also... «And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.»

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

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 for Toller, the faith of those early founders, who once used their chapel to shelter slaves fleeing north along the Underground Railroad, stands in stark contrast to the slick, corporatized hypocrisy of the modern American church — an institution that has betrayed its believers, its mission and, above all, the Earth over which God decreed that man should have dominion.

Our great country was founded by Christians and the Constitution was written by Christians who followed the teachings of a religion which says, 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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.

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.

Does man have dominion over all that is created on Earth?