Ummmmm.........it is called a field, just like farmers today use................
2007-08-31 01:06:06
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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It is a parable. The physical location is the Mid-East. But the seeds the bible is really talking about are when Christians tell people about Christ. Sometimes the "seeds" will fall upon deaf ears and not even take root but will wither and die(non believer atheist). Sometimes the "seeds" will land in a spot where the plant will start to grow but gets choked out by weeds. (A new believer not strong enough to keep the faith going to college for example.) Lastly, the "seeds" may land in good soil and take root and grow a bountiful harvest. (a person who possibly has had some belief in God, and now accepts Christ, keeps the faith and spreads more "seeds").
2007-08-31 01:11:37
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answer #2
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answered by Timothy B 4
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I Corinthians 15:36,37
"Thou fool, (in other words you foolish individual) that which thou sowest is not quickened, (or made alive) except it die. And that which thou sowest, (in agriculture, a grain crop) thou sowest not that body that shall be, but (what shall ye sow?) bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:"
Paul had to make it simple here so that people without a shadow of doubt can get things straight. In other words Paul is saying that when you plant something you don't plant the whole stalk of wheat, but rather the seeds. Now it stands to reason if you're going to plant the seed then you don't expect the seed to suddenly come up above the ground. What's going to come up first? The stalk. Paul is using that as a total illustration of our own resurrection experience.
I Corinthians 15:38
"But God giveth it (this grain) a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body."
Now of course that goes all the way back to Genesis where everything is confined to its own species. There is no such thing as crossing over from one totally different specie into another. Now we know we can hybridize but so far as sowing the seed of an apple and expecting to get an orange tree, that is just not going to happen. Now Paul say, "It's the same way in the flesh," as we see in verse 39.
2007-08-31 01:09:34
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answer #3
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answered by Gerry 7
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