The Cultural Mandate

The so-called Cultural Mandate can be found in Genesis 2:28, “And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. The mandate is twofold: to multiply and to dominate creation. This “ mandate, given to Adam in paradise, is a command of God. It, therefore, is not something which may or may not be observed; it...