Man was to be special, more important than everything else that God had created because he was going to be made in the image of God, which even the angels in heaven do not have that privilege. So we read here in Genesis 1:26"And God said, Let us make man to our image and likeness:" And when man lives according to that, reflecting God's image, he has authority. "Let him have dominion". Think of that phrase. "Let him," that is man, was created by God to be kings, to rule, to rule over their passions, to rule over everything on this earth. They were to be kings. But see what happens in Genesis chapter three when man sins, he immediately becomes a slave.