![]() ![]() That, of course, is merely part one of the Edenic plotline. Human authority is a vehicle for the proper exercise of stewardship. Instead, human authority is always marked by responsibility and a participant in Divine Law. Human beings were never meant to simply lord over creation and to bend it arbitrarily toward their will. Some of it, however, is quite plain and can be found in the clause that immediately follows: “Let us make mankind in our image and let him have dominion over all the earth.” Dominion is not domination. God says to Himself, “Let us make mankind in our image.” Precisely what this means is multi-faceted and complex. We see this at the very beginning, in the cradle garden. The previous essay on proper authority took its bearings from the fact that human beings, as human beings, have a divinely appointed responsibility to care about order and justice. ![]()
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