Saturday, May 18, 2013

Animal Abuse


Many people are confused as to what the roles of animals are in this God created world. It says in Genesis that we will have power over all the creatures that crawl about the earth. Some people use this as an excuse to abuse animals. However a further examination of scripture will prove that not only is this not the case, but it is our responsibility to take care of the world which God created.
Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them. And God said to them ‘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 heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
A further examination of the original text will tell us that the word thought to mean dominion, meant steward. A steward is care taker, of which we all are for the world around us. We must care for it and nurture it as God entrusted to us.

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