(The dominion of) The Earth Belongs to the Children of Men

Psalm 115:16
"The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's, but the earth hath He given to the children of men."

My last post confirmed this with the scriptures from Genesis 1: 26 & 28.

So we have the testimony of God two times, stating that God had given the earth to man to rule over.

Now can we agree that God gave dominion to man over the earth and all creation therein?

But what happened to man's dominion? 

Genesis 2: 15--17" And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.       And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

Genesis 3:1-6

 "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  And the eyes of them both were opened,"Notice that the  word says Adam was with Eve.  Adam watched the serpent (whom satan inhabited)  and heard his words and Eve's, knowing that  God had said to them both not  to eat of the tree. He had authority over the serpent, but instead of rebuking it with God's own words as Christ did when satan tempted Him in the desert, he just watched, listened and disobeyed God by eating the fruit.Now what did God do when they disobeyed Him?
 Genesis Chapter 3

14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.  (Here God was speaking about Jesus and satan)

The punishment God promises for mankind

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Here God is speaking to Jesus and He had to keep man from eating of the tree of life, because if man did eat of that tree man would live forever in sin. Can you imagine the world would be like if man lived forever in sin and the world was full of evil.23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.When Adam gave satan power over man, he let satan bring evil into the world, which gave satan power to bring evil and destruction into the world. Satan then ruled the spiritual world and made havoc with the perfect creation that God had made.  It would be about 4000 years before that authority would be reclaimed by God through Christ Jesus and given to the body of Christ, His Church.