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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