Dominion mandate

doctrine · 15 episodes

220Give Unto Caesar... 7 Jul 2025 27:56¶ 89 “Then eventually approaching the topic from a whole different direction, not planning on approaching it at all, I’m just doing stuff in Genesis where…” 28:36¶ 90 “We don’t know what that is. God has not told us, and any trip down 99 in California or any flight over the Great…” 29:40¶ 93 “They had hints. Israel is Jehovah’s wife, but you’re right, that wasn’t clear. And the same thing was hinted in the Sabbath day, actually.…”

201Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Ethics according to Plato 5 Aug 2024 20:15¶ 63 “Also it means that there’s no incentive to actually develop this creation and to make it better and to improve, because it’s the shadow,…” 30:29¶ 85 “Plato just wants us to get rid of our physical sensual entanglements, remember what we were, and then rise above this physical world. The…” 37:15¶ 112 “And replenish the earth. Have children, have children, have children, or to put it a little more roughly, “Have sex, have sex, have sex.…”

175Be Fruitful and Multiply 11 Jan 2024 3:16¶ 10 “First is the fact that God says, “Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth” three times – have children, have children, have children.…” 4:25¶ 11 “I think if you sat down with the average evangelical pastor/teacher/commentator and said, “Does God still want to fill the earth with his image?”…” 1:56¶ 7 “In discussing this difference, the speaker decided to draw on Genesis 1 and asked, “Why did God have to tell Adam and Eve to…”

174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 40:15¶ 136 “And the earth, what is its function? Well, God likes the earth. He made it. The emphasis on the dominion mandate actually came originally…” 45:00¶ 150 “And so is there a conflict between the dominion mandate and the Great Commission? No, they need each other. We’re making disciples, not just…” 45:49¶ 152 “That’s why we need the earth. That’s why we need to develop a planet. Yes, because it’s beautiful, but also so that we can…”

167Walls (Part 1) 3 Jul 2023 28:31¶ 92 “So from the beginning, God planted a garden and it became man’s first home and became God’s first sanctuary. It’s where God met with…” 29:24¶ 94 “If they had been faithful, if they had trusted God and relied on his grace and walked in faith, they would have told the…” 55:09¶ 163 “Or the Bible, or you don’t have time for prayer – “I’ll get to it. I’ll make time in a few months” – it’s…”

155The Lord is There 30 Jan 2023 50:00¶ 160 “They are beyond our control. Dogs are trainable, cats not so much, but it’s an interesting element to liven up things and to bring…” 51:37¶ 164 “And it’s good to bring the recommendation back to scripture. I mentioned the dominion mandate, but the living creatures as they appear in Ezekiel…” 52:08¶ 165 “Yeah. The phrase I’ve tried to use with my students when we talked about the dominion mandate was “taking care of” rather than “using,”…”

149The Peace of the City 19 Dec 2022 1:16¶ 5 “There’s also something just very – I don’t know what the adjective form of genesis is, but very back to the beginning. God is…” 1:43¶ 7 “Still dress and keep. I think of it that way because it’s essentially what we’re still doing today. We’re still dressing and keeping the…” 2:44¶ 11 “I’m just enjoying listening to you two talk here, and you’ve given me a really good idea of something I did not address at…”

143The Point of No Return 7 Nov 2022 1:00:20¶ 208 “And along with this goes having pets. That’s actually what I had thought about earlier. We’re told from the beginning to have dominion over…” 1:00:42¶ 209 “It’s one thing if you can’t make it work where you are, but to have the heart attitude that says, “Oh, plants are just…” 1:01:00¶ 210 “My wife was pointing out just yesterday that it’s a Gnostic heresy to say that there will be no animals in heaven. God made…”

90An Unlikely Hero - Throwing Out a Fleece 1 Nov 2021 20:05¶ 54 “He doesn’t exactly promise that all natural rates or natural constants will be forever constant, but they will continue in such a way that…” 20:49¶ 55 “Dominion implies predictability, a pattern of behavior on God’s side that we can trust, not because God is bound by any law of nature…” 36:40¶ 111 “Then there are movies like Runaway Bride. Until the ring is on the finger and the vow is said – in fact, you could…”

70Science and Wonder 23 May 2021 1:28:13¶ 270 “To look at it from a different direction, Reformed theology sometimes struggles with dominion mandate, cultural mandate, whatever you want to call it, and…” 1:28:45¶ 271 “As Reformers we should know this. You don’t become holy by going on a mountaintop and contemplating your navel. You do it by interacting…”

43The Secret Theology of Pets 25 Oct 2020 12:45¶ 51 “We don’t like the word ‘dominion,’ but what it means in a Christian context is stewardship. God has placed these creatures under your charge…” 12:06¶ 50 “So here we have the rest of God’s creatures, and here again God categorizes on his own terms. We have cattle, which would be…” 14:31¶ 57 “This is what God set before man, and there’s perfect harmony there but there’s not equality. The animals were not human, they were not…”

42The Metaphysics of Life 18 Oct 2020 38:42¶ 132 “We’ve spent a lot of time talking about what doesn’t work about trying to take care of the planet, or getting that out of…” 42:52¶ 143 “We don’t throw out the creation. One day God will redeem the whole of creation, so Christians are poised to be a voice for…” 43:19¶ 145 “It’s a responsibility. It’s not our job as superiors to destroy and trample under foot, but to love and to nurture, just as God…”

35Polytheism and Pluralism (part 1) 30 Aug 2020 21:41¶ 67 “Yes, indeed. One of the great struggles I think that’s appeared in Reformed theology over the cultural mandate or dominion mandate and this whole…” 22:39¶ 72 “Yeah. So in a sense you’re jumping to the end, but if we don’t jump to that end we may have no beginning anyhow.…” 22:55¶ 73 “Glory of God, granted. Beyond that we can talk about what the glory of God means, but I think the glory of God largely…”

12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress 22 Mar 2020 36:38¶ 125 “He’s producing a bride for his son, and that process will include creating a better place for her to live – the earth, a…” 36:16¶ 124 “And as we wrestle with the creation, we improve it. That’s what we’re called to do. And as I said in an earlier episode,…” 37:08¶ 126 “As Bryan just said, you don’t grow in Christ, you don’t grow in grace, you don’t become more and more the image of God…”

9Dominion 1 Mar 2020 5:43¶ 14 “When we look at the dominion mandate as it appears in Genesis, we think immediately of, “Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.…” 4:22¶ 11 “This is not to dismiss the wonderful work that writers in all kinds of traditions have contributed to this discussion, but I think it…” 1:10¶ 5 “The history of the discussion of the cultural mandate I suppose starts with Abraham Kuyper and his disciples. It was kind of a Dutch…”