Humans were created in God's image, with the ability to cultivate and manifest qualities that God possesses, such as love, empathy, and justice. That explains why humans can actually imitate God's personality.
"God said: 'Let us make man in our image.'" Before Jehovah God made anyone or anything else, he created a powerful spirit being who later became known as Jesus. By means of Jesus, "all other things were created in the heavens and on the earth." (Colossians 1:16) Jesus reflects Jehovah's personality-"he is the image of the invisible God." (Colossians 1:15) Fittingly, then, God could say to Jesus: "Let us make man in our image."
"Let them have in subjection . . .the domestic animal ad all the earth." Animals were not created in God's image. They were not designed to display distinctive human characteristics such a love or to possess a conscience. Still, God cares about the welfare of his animal creatures. That is why he declared that humans were to have the animals in "subjection, "a declaration that can be rendered "rule over" (New Comm0n International Version) or "or take charge of " (on English Bible). Jehovah was thus entrusting humans with the responsibility to care for the animals. (Psalm 8:6-8; Proverbs 12:10) Jehovah expects mankind to be good stewards of the earth and all things living on it.
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