1 Corinthians 15:45-49 (ESV Strong's)
45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
This prefigures, or depicts, what can take place within each of us. We arrive through the seed of man and will return to the dust of the earth as a natural man unless we call on the Lord. We can leave through the seed of God, which is His word, who is the Son of God. We must choose to be reborn and to bear His image.
The seed of God is planted in the earth of man. The growing conditions of that soil varies from one person to another. What grows will be harvested or discarded by the one who plants the seed for the bearing of good fruit.
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