Original sentence: "But are Christians supposed to be taking dominion at all."It is remarkable how much emphasis is placed on Genesis 1:26-28 as being a mandate to rule over cultures and human institutions in a fallen world when at the time that Adam was given this mandate, no such cultures existed and the world was not fallen."There is certainly no explicit connection made in Matthew 28 between the Great Commission and the Dominion Mandate of Genesis 1:28.A careful reading of the Bible indicates otherwise.A search for such a mandate proves fruitless.CRI argues the Great Commission found in Matthew, Chapter 28:18-20, does not provide any sort of "Dominion Mandate" as argued by Gary North, R.Dominionist or Christian Reconstructionist theology's belief that the penalties of the Levitical law remain binding upon Christians under the New Covenant is controversial among many conservative Evangelicals.Granted that there is some confusion among American Christians as to what taking dominion would mean, is there a sense in which this really is the mission of the church.It also denies that Christians have a "general mandate from Christ to seek or achieve worldwide or even nationwide political dominion before His return.It is most often used to describe politically active conservative Christians, mostly Calvinist in orientation, with a specific agenda.Likewise, Bob DeWaay, a conservative Evangelical preacher from Minneapolis, argues the Dominionists strain to make biblical passages conform with their theology.Nor are the commands to disciple, baptize, and teach somehow equivalent to 'take dominion.Rushdoony or other Dominionists.Simply put, the Bible never commands Christians to take dominion.The Bible never even hints that this is to be a responsibility of the church between Christ's first and second comings.The Christian Research Institute, a noted conservative Evangelical apologetics ministry, takes the Dominionists to task for what it sees as a misunderstanding of the Bible.The text says nothing about cultures or subjugating other people
Edited sentence: It is most often used to describe politically active conservative Christians with a specific agenda