Quote Originally Posted by mont974x4
Every reference to the word "possess" from Genesis until Job is the Hebrew word...yarash meanming to occupy by driving out, to seize. Beginning in Job there are a few instances where the original word is alah...meaning curse. The other word is nachal...talks more about an inheritance.

This has nothing to do with a new Eden.

No where are we told to be friends with the world. In fact, we supposed to be in the world...not of it. Otherwise, we are no diferent and nothing matters.

The people were punished for not trusting God and for not being obedient.


There is nothing worng with money, it's how we use it. When we make money, jobs, possessions, etc more imprtant than God then it is idolotry.
Well according to what I'm reading (New revised edition) God says he made Humankind (Adam and Eve) To be caretakers of the garden of Eden, Genesis 2:15.
Before Eve was made, Adam named all the creatures with God.
So Adam knew them, In Eden.
After being kicked out of Eden...Adam and Eve found the creatures different, wild, and God said Genesis 3:19 by the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken.
Thus we are now part of the ground...
To dust...what grows on the dust...plants.
So now we have a symbiotic relationships with plants!
We live off them, they live off Us.

Genesis 8:20-22, 9:8-11 god makes covenannts with every thing out of the ark.

Money starts out as a ingraven image, and then it is stamped onto paper, and coins...
It says not to have these things for they are Idols!
You CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS..."cannot" means what it says!
My Mother says the same thing, it's how you use it that matters...
I say if you hold this, and use it, you then believe in it...and give it power over you.
Now it is being placed over everything,,,everything is being reduced to it!
And this is where we are going too far with giving it power!
And subjecting our wills over the other life living here as our neighbors!
reducing them to a profit margin...

"Love thy neighbor as thy self." that would include them other life forms!

Christ says look at the birds of the air, they toil not, and herd no animals, and flock no sheep, but God loves them, and feeds them.
So I Believe we are to respect them other life forms, and honor God by keeping them with us in good order, healthy, and well fed.:rasta:
Now that Marijuana plant comes into play, with healthy seeds, to feed the birds, and the cattle, insects with...and some for us...