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The Age of Dominion

IN THE BEGINNING, God created the heavens and the earth. On the sixth day He got around to man. “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.’”

The creation story in Genesis chapter 1 was a new thing under the

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