“Being born again, not of corruptible ‘seed [Gk. sperma],’ but of incorruptible [seed], by ‘the Word of God,’ which liveth and abideth forever” (1Peter1:23 (KJV)

The “Word” seen above corresponds to Peter’s words below.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² (For the life [Gk. Zoë, the God Spirit’s life] was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) ³  That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. ⁴ And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” (1 John 1:2-4 (KJV)

Peter, by divine inspiration, says men must be “born,” a second time, spiritually, and he goes on to explain why. Below Peter essentially says man’s human life is like “grass” that “withereth” away, he dies; and by contrast, “the Word” (Jesus Christ) as the “seed [Greek, ‘sperma’]” of God, endures or lives forever.

“All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth and the flower [ with its seed of the life] thereof falleth away: But the Word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you” (1Peter 1:24-25).

Paul wrote of God the Father’s “Seed which is Christ”

“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one [seed], And to thy [God’s] seed [Grk. sperma], which is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16 (KJV)

This newly Seeded life in believers is a spiritual rebirth that was necessitated by the fact that all men are born into this world “dead in trespasses and sins” (Eph. 2:1). Thus, believers are not born-again in the same way as they were first born, but are born again — given new life, by believing (trusting in) the Word of God, which is Christ as Savior and as the Father’s “life-seed.”

As we will now see, Christ as the “Word of life” is ‘the Seed of life,’ who is freely offered to men by the preaching of “the gospel of the grace of God.”

Abraham had an important role in the transmission of ‘the Christ-seed’ to all who would believe of all ages. It was through Abraham’s lineage (cf. Matt. 1:1) that Jesus of Nazareth was born. Jesus came to die and then become the resurrected life-giving “Seed” of the Father … by which men may be regenerated (born-again) of His “Seed which is Christ.”

“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises [of God] made. He saith not, And to seeds [not plural, as of many; but as of one [seed], And to thy [the Father’s] Seed, Which Is Christ.” (Galatians 3:16)

Clearly, Jesus Christ is “the Son of God” and He is the “Seed” of Father-God. He was sent of the Father via the line of Abraham to bring redemption to Israel and all mankind. With that, Jesus as the Father’s resurrected Christ-Seed brings His resurrected eternal life... to be seeded into every believing person who will receive Him as Savior. God’s “Word,” in 1Peter 1:23 passage, is called “incorruptible [never-dying] seed”– this is God’s eternal “Seed” that cannot decay or die.

Scripture clearly declares that Jesus Christ is “the Word of God.” Note below how that “the Word” of verse 1 is also the eternal “life” of the Godhead in verse 4.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life [Greek, Zoë, the eternal life of the Spirit of God]; and “the life [Zoë]” was the light of men. (John 1:1-4)

The word “life” here above is not the physical life or the psychological life, but rather the Greek word is “Zoë,” meaning “the eternal Spirit- life of God.”

So, we’ve seen that;

• “the Word” of God in John 1:1 is Jesus of Nazareth who also is “the Christ” (Messiah/Savior) ...
• and in Galatians 3:16 “the Word” is also the “Seed” of the Father...
• and that “the Seed” is the very “life” of the Godhead ...
• given to us freely in the form of “the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:2).

Once “the Word,” which is the resurrected “Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” as the Father’s “Seed,” is received and implanted into the womb of a new believer’s human “spirit of man” (Zech. 12:1), its recipient is eternal,  never to die in his spirit… and he is fully equipped to dwell “eternal in the heavens” (2Cor 5:1b).

The “Seed, which is Christ” is the everlasting resurrection life of Jesus Christ... bearing with it all the Spirit-DNA of the fullness of the Godhead. We can metaphorically use the acronym “DNA” of God because the word “seed” is the Greek word “sperma.” Thus, believers become God’s literal children, born of His Spirit-loins by His “Seed [sperma], which is Christ” (Gal 3:16).

“The Word [the Christ-Seed] of the Lord endureth [lives] forever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you” (1Peter 1:25).

The “Word of God [Christ]” initially takes root in one’s own spirit as soon as one first believes the gospel. The good news of the gospel is about Christ’s redemptive work by the Cross and also the ‘Seeded life’ that He brings to believers.

Peter goes on to proclaim this wonderful gospel for believing Israel to whom Peter was sent. Peter was sent to preach “the gospel of (for) the circumcision” (Gal 2:7) as “the Apostle to the circumcision” (Gal 2:8)... in his ministry to Israel (cf., Matt 10:5-6).

“…ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold…but with the precious blood of Christ…” (1Pet.1:18-19).

“(Christ) Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree…” (1Pet 2:24).

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to [union with] God…” (1Pet 3:18).

It is only by believing the good news of today’s “gospel of the grace of God,” that dead sinners may be “regenerated [born again]” in their “spirit of man” of the “Seed” of God.

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;” (Titus 3:5 (KJV)

Peter later tells us where he got the information about redemption in the cross of Jesus Christ and Christ as the “seed” of the eternal life. It was from Paul, “the Apostle to the Gentiles,” (Rom. 11:13).

“... beloved brother Paul ... according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (Twist), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” (2 Peter 3:15-16)