The dominion mandate flies in the face of our culture. We’re constantly told that humans are a blight on the planet. There are too many of us, and we need to limit the population.

This is Ken Ham, heading up the ministry that’s built a 510-foot-long Noah’s Ark.

This week we’re looking at a biblical view of dominion … and caring for God’s creation. Now, as we talked about yesterday, we’re to care for creation, for God’s glory and our good.

The dominion mandate flies in the face of our culture. We’re constantly told that humans are a blight on the planet. There are too many of us, and we need to limit the population. But that’s not how the Bible talks about us.

Only humans are made in God’s image. We have unique value that the rest of creation doesn’t have. Now, that doesn’t mean everything else God made isn’t important—it is. But it does mean we have a unique value that animals and plants don’t have.

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Is There a Dominion Mandate? Is There a Dominion Mandate? Discussion: In Defense of Human Dominion