General Promise

The work of Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance painters has always appealed to me. What was the art world like before the Reformation? Was an exploration of spiritual, religious, and scientific ideas and their expression through art and writing? My interests have always lain in the earth sciences and literature. For this work, I explore of Creation and the idea that God’s "DNA" was in the first seeds (without reproduction, life could not evolve). I examine the Truth of God through nature, metaphors, and the parables that Jesus shared regarding seeds. God created seeds before animals and humans for provision, multiplication, regeneration, and propagation--this is a foundational truth. Seeds also require the right environment to grow, both soil and water. I chose from Scripture the following passages:

Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. – Genesis 1:11-12

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. – Genesis 1:29

 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer, and winter, day and night will never cease.”-- Genesis 8:22

These passages explain God’s promise of His faithfulness from generation to generation as long as the earth remains. I started by researching geological and anthropological historical evidence for this premise, finding evidence of fossil seeds. Scripture says, “nature declares His glory. For since the Creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”