Sentences with phrase «over all other creatures»

Human beings are to rule over the 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.

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.»

We have arrogantly assumed control over other creatures, deluding ourselves with the notion that we know best what is good for the earth and ourselves.

This nonfiction book by the author of When Elephants Weep — which I initially picked up, full disclosure, because he used to be my mother's boyfriend, but I subsequently grew to love on its own merits — is an accessible, intriguing survey of the ways we elevate the human race over other creatures.

After a confrontation aboard Bowser's flying ship, Mario gets knocked out and falls down to the surface of the Cap Kingdom where he meets Cappy, a ghost - like hat that is able to transform and help Mario take over other creatures» minds and bodies.

Because man, and man alone, has been created in the image of God, and for communion with the Creator, therefore he may and should make the earth subject to himself, and should have dominion over all other creatures... Man is only capable of realizing his divine destiny when be rises above Nature and looks at it from a distance [emphasis added] 5

Religious folks recoil at such notions because it goes against their belief that God created them alone to rule over all other creatures.

In fact, the passage in the Bible (Genesis 1:28) where roughly that phrase appears is cited in the encyclical in order to refute the widely held view that the Christian creation account justifies «absolute domination over other creatures,» which is presumably what the author in Nature had in mind with «fill and subdue.»

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.

Over other creatures he can speak the word of blessing, «Be fruitful and multiply,» but to the human creation he first says «you» (in the plural, Gen. 1:29).