In the biblical view God made us with the intelligence and capacity to exercise faith, to serve a God we can't see based on the evidence we see of His existence, to think about and live for the future instead of only the present, and to have dominion over all other creatures. But that dominion was held under the law of God and exercised according to the character of God, with love as the rule for everything. but sin messed up the whole scene of harmony and threw nearly everything out of balance. Caused evil to come into man's nature as well as into a good share of nature. It is to restore that balance that Jesus came. And while the job of restoration is only begun, it will be completed in time. Ultimately God owns everything by right of creation, and again by right of redemption, so it's His right to do with us and it anything He pleases. Fortunately He rules with love as the foundation of all he does, and so if we choose His side of things he'll make us extremely happy in time and restore all nature to perfection. The evidence I see in favor of it all is so massive and so conclusive, I can't help but believe and love Him.

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I am a believer too. In the account where dominion is mentioned, when was that? It was only when there was the creation in perfect goodness, with no sin, no suffering, no death, and no killing. I am not arguing against dominion continuing, but biblically what does that mean? Dominion has the same meaning as God's dominion over us, in the context of where it is mentioned it cannot be meaning it is for killing with having any suffering. It is about responsibility, we have stewardship we are to be responsible with, in this world toward it. Failing that is not being in the image of God.

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