Genesis 1:27-28, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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".
Dominion is the proper use of power with sovereignty and supremacy over something. Our understanding of man's place in the universe is rooted in the Genesis story. Created “in the image of God,” the parents of the human race were instructed to “fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over ...every living thing that moves upon the earth”. Two chapters later, their curiosity led to judgment and a world filled with sin and death. Domination is the abusive exercise of power in ruling over others or things. Dominion has been replaced by domination over the centuries until human wrongs were penned as rights. Animal rights of the very creation man is to dominate are being elevated above the genuine rights of minority races and tribes among men. The death of the Zimbabwean lion Cecil provoked a great outcry from all over the world while the world remains silent on the many that perish daily due to poor roads and driving in the same nation. Ironically the human domination masters are slaves themselves traumatized by fragile plants like marijuana and cocaine at an unprecedented level of drug abuse. It is humanistic science that enabled Western societies to amplify this domination with disastrous results. The gospel of stewardship lost by the Western world is at last to be appropriated by the vast populations of the non-Western world. Jesus Christ came as the last Adam to restore to man the dominion lost through the first Adam. We need to come back to the basics of the gospel and join Paul “in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God” (Romans 8:20–21). We need to get man reconciled to God together with his environment, and the liberty of all creation will become a manifest reality.
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