"In a world filled with grocery stores, pollution, birthcontrol, and debates about the definition of marriage, it is challenging to apply God's mandate to humanity: 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth' (Gen. 1:28). This verse clearly outlines God-given roles put forth to humankind. But how are we to understand God's mandates in modern society? In order to consider this question, we must understand to whom this mandate was given. The church is divided over this issue: does the mandate in Genesis 1:28 apply mainly to men, or all humans? Ada Besanon Spencer points out in her article that God did not divide this command: he did not tell Eve to be fruitful and Adam to rule. Nor should we assume the male was the only one who received this command..."