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 | | From: | Thomas Hankin | | Subject: | The Seed-Then the Plant | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:17:58 GMT |
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 | The Seed-Then the Plant
You sow a seed by putting it into the ground. It must first die,
and then it rewards you with a living plant. How does this take place?
Can you or anyone else fully explain this philosophically, rationally?
Do you refuse to eat the fruit of this seed until you know in minutest
detail how it grows into a plant? Hardly. You accept the generating
power of nature. When you sow wheat, you expect the same kind of plant
to come up. But that plant does not contain every particle of matter
that was in the seed. It contains the identity of the seed, but not the
entire actual seed as it was put into the ground. Yet the plant
resulting from that seed will produce seeds corresponding to that
original seed, made of different and yet identical material particles.
The plant in reality is that same seed which was placed in the ground,
in different form. So will it be with your resurrection body. It will
be the same body in the sense that it is your own body -- yet no longer
in the seed, so to speak, but the plant. When your soul leaves your
body at death, that spiritless body is good for nothing but burial in
the ground. There it can die and return to dust; and through death it
will live again by God's power.
from "2000+ Bible Illustrations," Death.
"2000+ Bible Illustrations" is public domain.
God Bless.
Tom.
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