Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
So God created humans in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
What I see here, is dominion over the living/creeping/crawling/flying things on the earth. Not the earth itself. We can raise goats, pigs, cows, horses, gerbils and gold fish. But I don't see where it says the Earth is our responsibility.
Gen 7:4; "For after seven more days,
I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
1Kin 17:14; "For thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that
the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.'"
1Kin 18:1; Now it happened after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, show yourself to Ahab, and
I will send rain on the face of the earth."
Jer 10:13; When He utters His voice,
there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain, And brings out the wind from His storehouses.
Luke 8:25; And He said to them, "
Where is your faith?" They were fearful and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that
He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him?"
In fact quite to the contrary, I see it is God who controls the weather, and heals the land. Not us. If God can heal cancer, diabetes, HIV, or cause a fig tree to wither. He can surely heal the Earth, the weather,
and control the rivers and lakes.
Isa 42:15; "I will lay waste the mountains and hills And
wither all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands And
dry up the ponds.
I suspect peoples morals have much more to do with the weather, than our environmental habits.
2Chron 7:14; and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then
I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and
will heal their land.
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