Friday, September 9, 2011

Dominion



I've been staring at this photo of Charles Darwin, thinking it one of the most incredible photos I've ever seen. Staring at it, I remember a thought I had a few weeks ago when I walked around the glorious woods and fields of Yosemite National Park, here in California. I was reminded of the Biblical verses below:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26

I'm not so sure about that and at risk of sounding heretical, I'd venture to say that statement is a colossal joke.


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8 comments:

  1. Ms. MoonSeptember 9, 2011 at 7:23 AM

    1. Thank you for that photo. Unbelievably beautiful.

    2. Yep.

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  2. Phil DzialoSeptember 9, 2011 at 8:29 AM

    Not quite sure we should have been given dominion over anything....

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  3. T. September 9, 2011 at 8:46 AM

    Yes, it is a joke.

    This statement, for me, outlines where we've gone wrong as a culture. No dominion-over, but rather participation-in. We are one being.

    xo

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2011 at 9:41 AM

    Um, to whom was God speaking? "Let us make man in our image..." Who is the us? And the our? Never thought of that before.

    I'm beginning to wonder about the veracity of the bible:)

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  5. Denise Emanuel ClemenSeptember 9, 2011 at 11:50 AM

    I always wonder about translation. What were the other possible choices of meaning and nuance?

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  6. karioSeptember 9, 2011 at 12:54 PM

    Dominion. Hmmm, sounds like "responsibility" to me. Nah, I'd rather sit and eat ice cream and watch the flowers grow. Someone (or something) else can have dominion. ;-)

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  7. blogzillySeptember 10, 2011 at 6:14 AM

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure it refers to responsibility, and we've SO blown it.

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  8. UnknownSeptember 10, 2011 at 7:11 AM

    I'm not sure, but I've always thought of that as meaning "take care of." And if that's true, it says more about our response to God's plan than about God's plan. Just put a big fat L on our foreheads .......

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