We just began reading The Poisonwood Bible. My assignment was to:
1.Interpret the quote
2.What does it imply about how people should behave?
3.How might this frame chpt.1?
My direct interpretation of the translation is:
God told them,
Be effective make progress and expand your population (bearing children etc.),
and revitalize the earth,
And push it down: and have domination
over the fish in the ocean, and over the birds in the sky,
and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
This quote, though I do not agree, seems to be suggesting that we as people should dominate the earth and everything on it. We should multiply and spread throughout. We should strive for profit and be effective. I think that because the quote sets up such a strong moral code and foundation for how people "should" act, in the rest of the book people will probably act accordingly with this Genesis, or try. Also, because we already know that this book is about missionaries who go to Africa, the missionaries are probably attempting to force this Christian foundation onto the natives whether they will have it or not.
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