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Don Ruhl 10:37 am on February 25, 2011 Reply  

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  J. Randal Matheny 10:49 am on February 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply

  Best I can do is John 12:24: ” I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.”

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    Don Ruhl 5:43 pm on February 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    Thanks, Randal.

    I asked because at a Creation Conference in Portland, Oregon last weekend, one of the speakers (Henry Morris III) said that the Bible never refers to plants as life, only humans and animals, because the life is in the blood. With the exception of the passage you had mentioned, I could not find anything to deny what he taught. The Bible does refer to plants as withering.

    Don

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  Stephen R. Bradd 12:01 pm on February 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply

  I think the strongest case can be made from Gen 1. God made grass, herbs, trees, etc. that bring forth “according to [their] kind.” The other creatures mentioned in Gen. 1 (which are certainly alive) also bring forth “according to [their] kind.” Unless plants are an exception, the only things in Gen. 1 that bring forth according to their kind are living things. By implication that which lives can also die.

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    Don Ruhl 5:43 pm on February 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    Thanks, Stephen.

    Don

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    J. Randal Matheny 7:19 pm on February 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    And there’s the comparison between plants and people, James 1, for example:

    9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

    And 1 Pet 1:24-25 quoting Isa 40:6, 8.

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      Don Ruhl 5:45 pm on March 1, 2011 Permalink

      Randal,

      The only thing about those passages is that they do not use the words, “living,” “alive,” “life,” “dead,” “died,” or anything similar, which is what Henry Morris III was arguing.

      Don

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