When God said, “Let us make man…and let them have dominion”, the only understanding the first two humans could possibly have had of how to have dominion like God would have been how he handled the adversary’s daily destruction of his work of creation.
Anyone who God entrusts with dominion have proven themselves capable by their obedience to his basic instructions to the first human. It is not until we accomplish all of these that we can in reality have dominion in any arena, as small as our body and as large as the universe.
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1) Be fruitful, i.e. be productive. Be a good worker. Make good things happen, in both the earthly and the heavenly/spiritual domains. Interestingly, God gave this same instruction to animals.
“And God created…every living creature that moveth…and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful..
Life on earth is interconnected in what is called the biosphere. We all depend on every species being fruitful in good works in their particular niche such as trees producing oxygen and flowers, and bees pollinating flowers and making honey, and bears breathing oxygen and eating honey, and microorganisms aiding digestion in intestinal tracts and…
“brethren, be not weary in well doing. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed…admonish him as a brother.” (II Thessalonians 3:7-15)


