Life # 15 - Life Began as a Chicken

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Every living seed carries within itself a blueprint of its fully mature form. In the natural, seed’s fully mature form is a flower, a plant, or a tree. In the spiritual, sin has a fully mature form. It begins with lust, which births sin; when sin is full grown, its fully mature form is death (James 1:14, 15 KJV and NIV). Even the incorruptible seed from which we have been born again, must develop into its fully mature form (1 Peter 1:23). But what form could that be?

Christians are exhorted to 1) get rid of our corrupt self, 2) put on the “new creature” which is created to be like God in holiness and righteousness, and 3) grow up into him, the Head, who is Christ (Ephesians 4:15 NIV). Isn’t it strange that the church stagnates at his “body”, failing to grow up into him, “the Head”? His image is our incorruptible seed’s fully mature form (2 Corinthians 3:18).

As sons, huiŏs, all he accomplished for us—his transfiguration, his death, resurrection, his everlasting zoe-life and incorruption (2 Tim 1:10 NIV)—are ours!

As for the chicken and the egg. The Adamic race began life fully grown. They were not embryos. Not until after sin entered, did Adam and Eve begin their “begetting”—and by implication, so did the rest of God’s original creation. The chicken, and not the egg, redirects us to our fully mature form.

“And God said, Let us make man in our image…” (Genesis 1:26).

Scripture quotations from New King James Version (NKJV) unless otherwise noted; this blog addresses Life #4 – To Live is Christ, item 7; excerpts from our book to be released next year.