Seed Sowing Analogy 1 Cor 15:36

Seed Sowing Analogy 1 Cor 15 vs 36 demonstrates clearly the difference between the IBV (Individual Body View and the CBV (Covenant Body View). The seed analogy shows that sowing is rooted in Christ, the Messiah, in fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets of Hos. 2:23, and not in one's natural birth as proposed by leading IBV proponent.

The fallacies of IBV's use of the seed analogy of Paul is clearly demonstrated. Natural birth is not the sowing of 1 Corinthians 15. The ramification of that view turns every man who produces children into a Sower. This is in direct contradiction to the word of God in the gospels. The seed sown is not a natural seed, but an imperishable or incorruptible seed. How does a human being produce such?

The timing of the sowing is of paramount importance. It only occurred in the last days! Therefore, it was not in Genesis, the Exodus or any time before. In other words, apart from Christ, the Son of Man, no one could be sown into the cosmos or age in the last days with one exception. All the rest were sown by the deceiver, i.e. the devil. That also shows the doctrine of "sowing at natural birth" is not of God.

There can be no immortal germ of life in man any more than there is an immortal germ of life in a grain of wheat. The Bible shows that immortality comes through the gospel message which reveals the only one who alone has immortality.

The message also discusses the discontinuity and continuity of the body that dies versus the new body into which the saints are raised. There is an important continuity of time involved with no break once the seed is sown. Therefore, a natural birth, from thousands of years ago, cannot be the sowing of 1 Corinthians 15. The break between that time and the resurrection makes rising from the dead impossible. It destroys the seed analogy. The verb tenses Paul used show that sowing was a present ongoing reality when Corinthians was written, and so was the process of rising. Note carefully the use of the present active, the present passive, and the aorist subjunctive all in verse 36.