I think that issue – the severance of nature and the supernatural – is particularly a western one. a minor one until the fervid imaginings of the later middle ages; added to by a general anti-nature stance of the (so-called) Enlightenment, which saw nature as a wanton female in need of taming under the new sciences brought to the fore by men, and then added to (I am informed) largely in the North American denominations.
I do think that is one thing I politely disagree with most of the Protestants of my acquaintance, is the part in Genesis telling Adam he would have "dominion" over nature becoming interpreted as "do as I please" callous use of nature....I always thought, from the first time I read that, "dominion" should be interpreted or understood more like "steward," or "caretaker." Something like that.
Genesis 1:26-31 The first creation of humans, male and female
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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
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This is the first creation of humans, Adam without the article.
The Seventh Day, G!d "rested," and declared the Sabbath.
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The eighth day, G!d created ha-Adam, with the article. Genesis 2:7-8:
7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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G!d spent the preceding 6 verses of chapter two building the Garden of Eden, before creating the man we typically understand as the man Adam. There are two Adams in Genesis. Some human teaching suggest possibly even more, and genetically we already know Neandertal shares genes with some modern humans, one theory is that they mated out of existence.
After Caine was banished, he went to dwell in the land of Nod, and there he took a wife.
Genesis 4:16-17
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16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived,...
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...and the verse goes on to list the descendants of Cain who was outcast.
So the whole "dominion" thing is for the "pre-"Adam.
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