Dominion
If we go under the dominion of others through contracts covenant and constitutions, to say nothing of covetous practices and the sloth of the foolish those who take dominion over us can sell us a slave to our own greed and avarice. The dominion of God through man is not men ruling over men but is from "generation to generation"[1] through the family.
Dominion
The word dominion is said to mean "Control or the exercise of control; sovereignty." and may include "A territory or sphere of influence or control; a realm." and also may be like, "A self-governing nation under the nominal rule" like "the British monarch"[2] or the kingdom of God.
Dominionism is "The theory or doctrine that Christians have a divine mandate to assume positions of power and influence over all aspects of society and government." and it may also be "The belief that God gave humans the right to exercise control over the natural world."[2] Dominion over the "natural world" is different than "power and influence over all aspects of society and government." Still there is "A tendency among some conservative Christians, especially in the USA, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action."[2]
Christian Dominionism is a political approach by some where what they call Christian faith is based on a literal interpretation of Genesis Chapter 1 verses 26 – 28 of the Christian Bible. [3]
Believers perceive themselves as the “chosen” or the “elect”, commanded by God to “subdue” the earth and “have dominion” over all living "creatures". But that biblical dominion did not include exercising authority over your fellowman.
Most of the articles talk about Christians as wanting to have dominion and are clearly designed to bash "Christians" as a threat to real freedom because they think that Christians are chosen to rule the world. Real Christians are not to be even "of the world" but that world was "an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government".
Many religions in one form or another have this same thought, from Jews to Muslims. Yes, some calling themselves Christians have thought that too. But if a Christian is a follower of Christ, then we would want to ask Christ and not just someone who claims to be a Christian.
Some think that the goal of Christian Dominionism in the United States is to abolish Separation of Church and State, establishing it as a distinctively Christian Nation based upon Old Testament Mosaic Law.
Most Christians do not believe in Old Testament Mosaic Law but Jesus did because he understood it as it was meant to be before the twisting interpretations of the Pharisees. Modern Christians do not understand the Old Testament Mosaic Law nor do they understand the "Kingdom of God".
Dominionism is a broad term that contains many divergent groups "claiming a foundation in Christianity”.
All Christians are NOT Dominionists in the same way or meaning because according to Christ who came to set men free from the rule of man over man.
It is a growing movement supported by political Christians who teach that America is a nation built on a singular religion, Christianity – and all citizens are to be subject to laws and rules that are in accordance with their Dominionist version of reality. But Pure Religion is not the same as Public religion, any more than fervent charity is not the same as Legal charity or the seeking the righteousness of God is not the same as the covetous practices of the world.
Political Dominionism can be an extreme version of false Christianity which has co-opted conservative politics in America which are in need of repentance.
Despise dominion
“8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.” Jude 1:8
God endowed man with the liberty to choose.
- “27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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.” Genesis 1:27-28
The Flesh pots of Egypt were political economic systems that formed collectives which were described as One purse. In these collectives there was little or no private ownership except as [[legal title]) which included no beneficial interest.
These civil societies were the cities of blood which were formed out of the city-states which make the masses of a nation a valley of Dry bones.
The Doctrine of Jesus opposed such systems because they weaken the people like Babylon, Sumer, and Sodom did.[4]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Kingdom from generation to generation
- Exodus 17:16 "For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn [that] the LORD [will have] war with Amalek from generation to generation."
- Isaiah 13:20 "It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there."
- Isaiah 34:10 "It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever."
- Isaiah 34:17 "And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein."
- Isaiah 51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
- Jeremiah 50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there], and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
- Lamentations 5:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:3 How great [are] his signs! and how mighty [are] his wonders! his kingdom [is] an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion [is] from generation to generation.
- Daniel 4:34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation:
- Joel 3:20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
- Luke 1:50 And his mercy [is] on them that fear him from generation to generation.
- Genesis 6:9 These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man [and] perfect in his generations, [and] Noah walked with God.
- Psalms 14:5 There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous.
- Leviticus 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family."
- Matthew 23:9 "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- ↑ Genesis 1:26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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 sin the Sodom
- Genesis 18:20 "And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;..."
- Genesis 13:13 “13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”
- Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
- Genesis 14:21-23 "And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 That I will not [take] from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that [is] thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
- Deuteronomy 32:31-33 “31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.”
- Isaiah 1:9-19 “9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”
- Isaiah 3:8-9 “8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. 9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.”
- Jeremiah 23:14 “14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.”
- Lamentations 4:5-10 “5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. 7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
- Jude 1:7-8 “7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.”