THESIS 2: THE DOMINION MANDATE

Man was created to exercise "dominion" over the earth.[2] This mandate is sometimes called "The Cultural Mandate," both to signify its comprehensive scope (#64) and to distinguish a Godly stewardship from an unGodly and selfish domination of the creation.[3]

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

The Dominion Mandate

Prooftexts

2. Genesis 1:26-28; 9:1-3,7,10; Psalm 8:5-8

3. Deuteronomy 20:19; 25:4; Proverbs 12:10

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