Jiang explains that God creates the seeds and the laws of the universe rather than directly micromanaging every stone, plant, or table.
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Seeds
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"...and it became a big tree, right? So God created the seeds."
"...of the universe is, is what gives rise to plants where seeds like become trees, right? That's following the law. Of the universe, but..."
"...i remember there was a line where it said that the seed was more than the plant that grows in the end yes and..."
"...and usually refers to family so when he says plant and seed it means just because you're born as family does that does not..."
"...fruit and flower for every plant is known by what it seeds within the light is one who ent wiggle then one is courageous..."
"...maker. From this you see that, of necessity, love is the seed in you of every virtue and of all acts deserving punishment."
"...sea sponge. And then it starts to organize the powers that seed it. At this point, son, the power that had come from the..."
"...brings Poully and Provence distress. The plant is lesser than its seed, just as the man whom Beatrice and Margaret wed is lesser than..."
"...you last? Why not decree yourself incineration since you surpass your seed and wickedness? Throughout the shadowed circles of deep hell, I saw no..."
"...fraud that caused a breach, the gait that let Rome's noble seed escape. There they regret the guile that makes the dead Didymia still..."
"...said alas what's done is at an end which was the seed of evil for the tuscans i added and brought death to your..."
"...the certain truth those ancient peoples received their health again through seed of ants then i felt when i saw in that dark valley..."
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