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Skye Jethani: The Two Creation Mandates

God gave man two mandates: one was marital—but the first one was cultural.

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When God created man, he ordered him to fill the earth and subdue it—to use his brain to help order happen. We were made to work, and work well—in fact, it was within the mandate of work that God gave us marriage.

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