"There is no understanding of any domain or dominion without understanding its design and purpose before sin and the fall.  We were not made for sin.  Sin happened, so God must and we must deal with it.  But we do not have governance, science, education, family, business, beauty and the arts, communication because we are fallen from God’s ideal.  We do not have nations and cultures because, after sin, there was no other way we could be ruled.  We have all of these arenas of life because we are created in the image of God and they are all part of revealing Him.  They are all ways in which we know, see and worship God.  Our work, creating communities that reflect who God is, is our worship now and forever."

Landa L. Cope