Genesis 1 1:26

 The editors of the New American Bible wrote this foottnote on 1:26: "Man is here presented as the climax of God's creative activity; he resembles God primarily because of the dominion that God gives him over the rest of creation."

Humans are God's stewards on earth, and they wield dominion and stewardship over the rest of creation. They have a right and a duty to mine and harvest from nature to support their lives and needs but their must be responsible for its faun, flora and environment too. Humans live in the world, but are not part of the natural world. Humans are part of the creator class that made the world, and rule it.

This apartness from nature and overseer role that humans have towards nature are two of the most important influences that the Hebrews gave to Western culture. Humans are of the creator class like the Divine Couple are. So in individuating, the faithful individual is creating and bring aetshetic worth for the world.

Hoffer defines freedom is human escape from nature into the city and the secular, worldly, urban world of humankind.

If we build a life for ourselves apart from nature, then we are free, and to love at all, let alone love God is to commune with God, living an authentic lfie of libety and truth.

Here is the line from the New American Bible: "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.  Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.'"

Here is that passage from the Holy Bible, KJV: "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."