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 | | From: | Thomas Hankin | | Subject: | Plant Corresponds to Seed | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:02:38 GMT |
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 | Plant Corresponds to Seed
In 1 Corinthians 15:36-38, we see that a seed must die in the
ground before God causes it to spring up into a plant; that this plant
will be consistent with the nature of the seed planted, yet different in
form and function. To emphasize this difference between the seed and
the plant is similar to the difference between the body that is laid in
the grave and the body that will one day be resurrected, Paul says in
verse thirty-seven, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that
body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some
other grain." The analogy is that of your dead body to a seed and of
your resurrection body to the plant. There is nothing in Scripture that
requires you to believe that the body you put into the ground is the
selfsame body that will rise in the resurrection. Paul says that, with
bodies as with plants, you don't bury that which is to be in the same
form that it will eventually assume. A bare grain of wheat will produce
a plant bearing many grains, but you don't sow the whole plant. You sow
a seed and you get a corresponding plant.
from "2000+ Bible Illustrations," Death.
"2000+ Bible Illustrations" is public domain.
God Bless.
Tom.
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