Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | Genesis 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth." |
Subject: Christian Ecology |
Bible Note: Gen. 1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." My wife and I were talking this morning. Depressed with all the murder and mayhem she saw on the news yesterday, she asked, “What would we be doing if there had been no Fall?” My thoughts jumped to the verse above, and then as thoughts go, it jumped to other things. Subdue God says, subdue the earth, not destroy it. Christian ecology: Francis A. Schaeffer has an easy read on the subject, Pollution and the Death of Man: The Christian View of Ecology. I recommend it to you. Peace, |