Babel

Man was created king, and he was endowed from the beginning with power to have dominion over the beasts of the field and over the fowls of the air and over the fish of the sea. His kingdom was not the heavenly but an earthly. Yet, being formed after the image of God, adopted to be the friend of God and to live in covenant communion with Him, as His servant he was also clothed with royal power and authority to rule. His nature is a king's nature. In his original state of righteousness he was...