The First Principle: Participate in life increasing and filling the earth
The first principle we see:
“Let the land produce vegetation”
“Let the water teem with living creatures, and the birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” “Let the land produce living creatures.”
“Let us make man in our image in our likeness and let them rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air over the livestock over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.”
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
The first principle (first in order of appearance, anyway): When we function as we should in God’s image we care for life we participate in life increasing and filling the earth.
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