I like this.... much more presentable on a charcuterie board.
There are a couple of image/concepts that are helpful to get a better 'picture' of the principle of rebirth. For whatever reason, even though scripture is explicit in supplying the example of a seed that has life within it, falls, dies, is planted in the ground and lives again-- that's not the only illustration to point toward.
We have also the example recorded by Moses that comes in the form of the story of Jacob and that ladder he sees in spirit--- with the angels ascending and descending.
@QuantumBit wants to call this DNA, and I don't actually have a problem with that association in that you can make the connection he does between biology and this spiritual dimension, where one is an image of the other-- angels are messengers after all, and the seed is the word, is the spirit, the son, the logos--- made flesh.
In fact God says so, even in this specific example of the coming down and going up of these 'angels' that Jacob sees in his vision.... relating what Jacob sees to his seed.
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Of course our
physical DNA doesn't fall from above or ascend to the heavens when we die, and this is where Qbit's model breaks down immediately, but I applaud his observation here nonetheless. It's a worthy recognition of the image, much better than what Moses thought and the unauthorized copy he made of those spiritual things he saw.
A much simpler example is the process of rainfall. I won't bother explaining how evaporation and condensation work since we all covered that in grade school. Rain falls from above, runs it's course and eventually ascends again in a never-ending cycle. These cycles and circles of descending and ascending are examples and parallels of this principle of rebirth-- the continuation of life (life cycles) or life everlasting, which apart from interruption continues eternally-- by design. We even call 'our seed' -descendants. Our fruit, our family tree.
As Qbit says-- it's all VERY biblical.
