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| Creator Commandments Universal |
Apart from the commandments of God to a specific/limited audience
such as Israel in the Sinaitic code summarized in its Ten Commandments
there are commandments of God given in general and that therefore continue to have application today.
such as Israel in the Sinaitic code summarized in its Ten Commandments
there are commandments of God given in general and that therefore continue to have application today.
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planet |
| SET AS SEED-PLOT | ||
| OF THE UNIVERSE | ||
| Limited only by religious priority |
| "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth/land and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth/land" |
responsibility to fully populate and to control the life-forms of this planet.
There is no implication of a geographic limit, hence the Mars One colony on that planet is therefore within this mandate.
This responsibility well accords with human instincts to spread and conquer.
exception to the first part of this command is demonstrated for us in certain lives such as John the Baptist and especially of Jesus the Christ of God, who said –
| "Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs (castrated) by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it." |
| Limited only by health |
| "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood." |
freedom to eat by choice, except for blood.
Israel in His Sinai Code, God distinguished* between edible animals ('clean') and non-edible ('unclean') in building up a nation, in His faithfulness to Abraham, to become the primary propagators of His written Word (Romans 3:2), and so gave strict health regulations such as washing hands before eating (remember forks had not then been invented), and in the application of Egyptian puberty circumcision to infant boys as the seal of Abraham's conditional land covenant with God.
in the number of
animal pairs preserved
in Noah's Ark for
future breeding.
| Respect unlimited |
| "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in His own image." |
responsibility for the administration of justice based on the distinctive value of human life.
Before this command, administration of justice was directly in God's hands, such as after the murder of Abel by his brother's jealous rage. This shift of responsibility, after the year-long Global Tsunami which destroyed all except what Noah had put together in his 120-years of preparation for it, is here a very significant statement concerning the ambassadorial significance of human life in general.
value-basis of this command is carried through in God's special regulations to Israel on how to treat even the corpse of a criminal who had been sentenced to death. It was not to be left hanging up over night (as possible food for predators, Deuteronomy 21:23).
