What is the relationship between the creation/cultural mandate in Genesis and God’s intended role for his redeemed people in the new covenant?
In Genesis 1, God creates humanity in his image and gives them a task to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion” (1:28). In Genesis 2, he places them in a garden he designed and gives them the task of stewarding the garden, of cultivating and protecting it (2:15). Combining these two images gives us humanity’s original creation mandate: to cultivate and expand God’s garden-temple to bring God’s creative glory to the ends of the earth.
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