Oppenheimer: Knowledge, Responsibility, and the Weight of Creation (Genesis 1:26-28)

In Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a brilliant scientist is given dominion over the atom—and the power to unmake worlds. "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," he quotes from the Bhagavad Gita after Trinity. Genesis 1:26-28 grants humanity dominion over creation, but dominion was meant for cultivation, not destruction. Oppenheimer's tragedy is the tragedy of dominion divorced from wisdom, of knowledge without the humility to ask whether we should. The film asks: What does it mean to bear God's image when our creations can end all life? True dominion requires the wisdom to steward, not merely the power to control.