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| Nepenthes attenboroughii, |
THE MORPHOLOGY OF SIN-Part 3
'The juice of the plant covers the soft parts of the prey,
and generally, only the bones of the prey remain.'
Mr. McPherson said pitchers were usually colourful,
attractive, seductive, ensnaring to attract prey, especially insects, which
they needed to survive.
'All pitcher plants are carnivorous plants. They need to get hold of nutrients by ensnaring and digesting animals (mainly insects) because they grow in really difficult surfaces where nutrients are little in the soil,' he said.
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| Can swallow mice like its cousin the Nepenthes northiana |
Giant 'meat-eating' plant found
An excerpt from BBC News
Matt Walker
Editor, Earth New |
A new species of giant carnivorous plant has been discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines.
The pitcher plant is among the largest of all pitchers and is so big that it can catch rats as well as insects in its leafy trap.
During the same expedition, botanists also came across strange pink ferns and blue mushrooms they could not identify.
The botanists have named the pitcher plant after British natural history broadcaster David Attenborough.
They published details of the discovery in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society earlier this year.
Word that this new species of pitcher plant existed initially came from two Christian missionaries who in 2000 attempted to scale Mount Victoria, a rarely visited peak in central Palawan in the Philippines.
From the above illustration it is evident that the external morphology of sin is identical with this insectivarious plants. People are attracted to sin and its external characteristics like the creatures and fall prey .Just imagine how devastating it is to have even a look with our eyes towards sin.
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THE INTERNAL MORPHOLOGY OF SIN:
The characteristics of the internal morphology of sin is death.
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| Wages of sin |
“For the wages of sin
is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-(Rom
6:23).
“When tempted, no one
should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does
he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is
dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to
sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death” ( James 1:15).
The consequences of sin
is death.
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| Consequences of sinful life and the holy life in Jesus brings resurrection from all unrighteousness |
Death means both
physical death accumulated from our forefather Adam and Eve and our spiritual
death eternal separation from God. We are born into this world physically alive
but spiritually dead irrespective of our culture, Religions and ethnicity. We
are genetically transmitted of the sin nature (rebellion against God) in our
cell structure. So mankind is doomed of eternal separation from God. Further
continuation of sin in the life of mankind brings destruction, harm, to self
and others and complete alienation from the grace of God after death. Thus sin
ultimately takes mankind to physical death and spiritual death of spending
eternity in the lake of fire.
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| Error to the mirror of word of God |
So, how attractive and
charming the sin may be but the consequences will be death.
The Bible says: “My
brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring
him back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will
save him from death and cover over a multitude of sins”(James 5:20).
So dear reader keep away from sin and escape death.
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Bibliography:
1.
Morphology by Wikipedia-free encyclopedia
3. Papam yokka swarupam by C K Kumar (Botany lecturer) –Meeru jaya
jeevitham pondhagalaru, Pg 8-9 (Translated and expanded by the author sreedhar
Jeshurun).
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