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Comparison

Emphasizes the union and growth of divinity and humanity

Emphasizes God's building and settling in man

Explanation

Divinity as a seed sown in the soil of humanity, growing through the nutrients of human nature

The Triune God enters man, using Himself as the element and man's being as material, to build a home within man

Example

A farmer sowing seeds in soil, seeds absorbing nutrients from the soil to grow

Construction workers building a house on a plot of land, eventually becoming a dwelling place

Application

Believers need to provide good "soil" (thoughts, attitudes, etc.) for divinity to grow within

Believers need to be strengthened into their inner man, allowing Christ to make home in their hearts

Relevant Scriptures

Matthew 13:3-9

"A sower went out to sow.

And as he sowed,

some seeds fell along the path,

and

the birds came and devoured them.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground,

where they did not have much soil,

and immediately they sprang up...

 Other seeds fell on good soil

and

produced grain,

some a hundredfold,

some sixty, some thirty."

John 14:23 "Jesus answered him, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.'"

Ephesians 1:19-22 "And what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places... And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church."