{"id":120108,"date":"2021-11-28T12:02:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120108"},"modified":"2021-11-28T12:02:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T17:02:42","slug":"be-fruitful-multiply-and-replenish-the-earth-our-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120108","title":{"rendered":"Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth-Our mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth, Genesis 1:28. This is not about breeding like rabbits and growing our population.<\/p>\n

It’s God ordering humanity to engage in work.<\/p>\n

To be fruitful\/fertile is to be productive. To multiply is to be productive to create abundance. To replenish and subdue the earth is to be productive to create abundance for the purposes of serving others. It’s about using the first two parts of the order to “subdue” via service to humanity.<\/p>\n

The next two verses, Genesis 1:29 (plant husbandry) and Genesis 1:30 (animal husbandry), expands on Genesis 1:28 to explain that humanity is being ordered to work.<\/p>\n

Creating abundance allows someone, good at a specific job, to provide a service to others. When two or more meet to carry out this order, they engage in capitalism, which creates societies and ultimately civilization.<\/p>\n

Humanity was placed in the Garden of Eden to do work God’s way (Genesis 2:15). Many think that Eden was a place of paradise, not a place of work and drudgery. However, paradise was meant to come in the form of work… As long as we do work God intends for us to do, guided by God’s definition of right:<\/p>\n

Of every tree in the garden, you may freely eat, but of the knowledge of good and evil you will not eat (Genesis 2:16-17).<\/p>\n

The fruits humanity was allowed to freely eat are symbolic of what God wants us to do. This is usually described as life, light, day, etc., throughout the Bible. God did his creation work in the “light”; we must do the same to continue God’s work. The forbidden fruit of the knowledge of good and evil represents our definition of right and wrong that contradicts God’s definition of right and wrong. The Bible describes this version as death, darkness, night, etc.<\/p>\n

This sets the tone for the rest of the Bible, and real life. Paradise is doing work that serves others, which is the paid and unpaid work that we do throughout our day. However, this work must be done guided by what is morally right, with time off (sabbath) incorporated on the seventh day after six days of work. Not only is this paradise, but it is freedom.<\/p>\n

The photo that came with this post is an example of what happens when “God’s will is done”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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