Does The Seed Dies or Doesn't Die?

Does the seed dies or doesn't die? Our biology teacher taught us the most interesting lesson of my high school times when he talked about the death of the seeds. He talked about the position of science on what Jesus said about the seeds. Jesus said that if the seed doesn't die, doesn't produce new life and science has long debated on the veracity and validity of that assertion. The issue is in the concept of death. If the concept of death is anihilation and disappearance, the seed doesn't die. But if the concept of death is transformation, the seed dies . Science, through the studies of Lavoisier, Lomonosov and more recently Einstein, has found that the total of material mass and energy never disappears or get destroyed, but it's transformed and preserved. The seed sacrifices itself and ceases to be a seed, to be transformed into a plant. The seed dies. The egg sacrifices itself and ceases to be an egg to be transformed into a chicken. The egg dies. The caterpillar sacrifices itself and forms the chrysalis to be transformed into a butterfly. The caterpillar dies. Similarly, our body sacrifices itself and ceases to be a physical body to be transformed into the spiritual being that God created. The body dies. Death is not anihilation or disappearance, but transformation. Additionally, this process of transformation is applied to our daily living because we must "die" to our old way of living , thinking and acting, to be transformed by the power of God. Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun.