In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God gave man dominion over all the earth. This man of God's creating lives by divine authority. He expresses the infinite power and intelligence of all-inclusive Mind. He has no mind separate from God, but forever manifests the boundless individuality which only God's infinitude can image forth. He is not a sinning mortal, depending upon belief for authority, but he is the forever-unfolding idea in the one divine Mind, expressing the intelligence, power, and dominion of Mind.
In the struggle for human power mankind lose sight of the fact that all power belongs to God. The human trend toward aggression, oppression, pride of power, and struggle for human domination does not express God, but is the counterfeit objective of the so-called mortal mind leading to its own destruction. This carnal mind, which Paul tells us "is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:7), would have us believe in laws of sin and destruction, when in reality error has no power except the deceptive power which false belief bestows upon it.
If mortal mind argues that we are not good enough to claim dominion, that we are sinful, cursed, and unworthy, we must silence these lies. If, in the guise of humility, error suggests that we can never merit direct communion with God but that we should let someone else do our thinking and praying for us, we must realize that these arguments are spurious and deceptive. They exist only as beliefs of the carnal mind, which, as Paul further says, "is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."
