**11 **And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
**12 **And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good…/KJV
I was reading that and I noticed that it says that, God said let the earth bring forth grass and fruit trees and so forth. Now of course God did not go around planting seeds all over he merely spoke what was already in the earth to come together to make the vegetation.
So what are seeds for? If the Cherry tree is in the earth, everything it takes to make a cherry tree to grow is in the earth already. I always thought the cherry tree was in the pit/seed. I guess not now, huh?! So what do seeds really do? What is their function within the earth when we plant them? If the cherry tree is in the earth, then the most a seed could help is to…?? (That is the question.
I believe the seed specific to kind send a GPS type signal to the earth telling the earth to, grow a cherry tree right here!
I’m not being dogmatic and I was just wondering about the secrets of the Kingdom of God. I guess this means that scientists don’t even really know this. Ask any gardner, what’s in that seed? “Apple Tree”, “Fig Tree”, “Cherry tree”. But if we are to take Genesis 1 literally, then the tree is in the earth waiting on an instruction of where to grow…The seed doesn’t grow the tree, it tells the earth where to grow it.
I have never thought of the trees, grass, herb etc. already being in the earth, but that God in that moment created the tree, grass and herb. We learned earlier in Genesis that the earth was void and without form.
We know that God created man from the dust of the ground. In this sense, God took the dust that was already there and formed it into man. God didn’t say, ‘let the earth bring forth man’, but God took the dust and with it formed man.
The purpose of plant life yielding seed is to reproduce what God has created. Some call it co-creation. God created everything from nothing with the ability to reproduce.
At least, that’s how I see it
I always thought of it like that too. On that day God created the plant life. But it doesn’'t say that. It says God told the earth to bring it forth, so the earth did. WHen God created the earth all of the resources for the vegetative life has already been put into the earth. They are still in the earth, what will be needed for plant life for the rest of earths time.
God did make man from the dust of the ground, but He wanted to make man in God’s image, which the earth was unable to do without divine intervention, for the earth could only do what was put into it at it’s own creation.
Now man did not become a living soul until God breathed into him an ingrediant for man that was not in the earth and the dust thereof. Man needed that little bit of divine spark to make man complete and in God’s image. That’s how I see it now.
Now for man to reproduce the nice apple tree in his own yard just like his neighbors tree, since what it takes to get the earth to bring forth an apple tree in this yard, it would have to be told where to grow, in the mans yard? And that is what is in the seed? Right? Makes sense to me.
Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
bring forth - dawshaw = sprout, bring forth, show
Most of what a plant is made of is carbon from the air. Most plants are rooted in the ground from which they are able to draw the water they need for photosynthesis.