TWO GENES OF PEOPLE

JESUS ​​CHRIST’S PARABLE OF THE WHEAT AND THE TARES
MATTHEW 13: 3-9, 18-23 and 13:24-30, 36-43

Until now, many Christians have been confused about the meaning of the two parables that Jesus Christ taught long ago and were recorded in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 13.

The first example is that of a man going out to sow seeds and the seeds falling on different parts of the ground, from which different results arise.

The second example is that of a landowner who sowed wheat in his field, but when night came, the landowner’s enemy crept in and sowed weeds among the wheat, then went away.

These two parables of Jesus about sowing seeds are completely different in detail as well as in meaning, but for thousands of years the faith community (including both Protestants and Catholics) has interpreted both as having the same meaning.

Before going into the details of the parable of the wheat and the tares, let me present the fundamental differences in the two parables of Jesus Christ.

In the first parable, there was only one sower, and he sowed the same seed, but because the seeds fell on different grounds, the results were different. So the parable means that the same gospel was sown from the same Person, Jesus Christ, but because the hearts of the hearers were different, the spiritual results that came to each hearer were also different.

In the second parable, the sowers were two people, the first was the owner of the field, and the second was the owner’s enemy. The land was only one, and belonged to the owner, which Jesus Christ explained as the world or Earth. The seeds were also of two different kinds, one was the good seed, that was, wheat, and the other was the bad seed, that was, weeds. Because of this difference, these two parables have completely different meanings, but the faith communities of the two churches consider them to have the same meaning, that is, the result of hearing the Gospel.

Let me now address the error and contradiction in which many people take the second parable to mean the same as the first. Many people take the owner’s field to be the human heart in the world. Such an interpretation is inconsistent with the explanation given by Jesus Christ Himself. He never said that the owner’s field was the human heart. He clearly said that it was the world, or the Earth, as described in…

MATTHEW 13: 38 – The field is the world, the good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the weeds are the children of the evil one.

We may recall that in the first parable, Jesus Christ said that there are four different kinds of hearts in mankind. If in the second parable, He had taught that the hearts of all men in the world were the same, it would have been a contradiction to Himself. But all Christians know that there is no contradiction in Jesus Christ. He is the One who never changes, so when many people explain that the fields are the hearts of men in the world, they are wrong and contradict the words of God in the Bible.

There are many mistakes in such an explanation. First, if we say that the field is the heart of all people in the world, then how can there be equal good and evil in the heart at the same time? In reality, we can see that either a good person has a clearly good heart, or an evil person has a clearly evil heart. It is impossible that in one person there is equal good and evil mixed together to the point that even the angels cannot distinguish them, as is recorded in…

MATTHEW 13:28-29 – 28 He answered and said to them: An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him: Dost thou then want us to go and gather them up? 29 He said unto them: No, lest while ye gather the weeds, ye root up the wheat with them.

Moreover, the Bible never says that angels, that is, reapers, will remove evil from the hearts of men. That is the work of the Holy Spirit, and it is not something that angels, or reapers, can do, to pull the weeds out of the hearts of men.

However, many people still argue and reason that the wheat is the good people and the weeds are the bad people. When they say that, they are even more mistaken, thinking that the heart creates a person, that is, the good seed sown in the heart creates a good person, not that the heart is in the person. When they reason like this, they think that in the beginning there was a heart but no person, then when the seed of the Gospel was sown in it, that heart became a person.

Their mistake is even greater, because according to such reasoning, in the beginning there were only hearts, but no good or bad people. When the seed of the Gospel was sown, good people appeared, and then when the seed of evil was sown, bad people were born. Such reasoning is like saying that before the Gospel came to the world, there was no evil, no sinners. Such reasoning is completely contradictory to human history, because before the Gospel was preached, there were already people on earth and they already knew what was moral, what was good and what was bad, what was right and what was wrong, according to their beliefs and customs.

Such reasoning shows that they are very wrong because according to their explanation, before the Gospel came to the world, there was no sin, so could it be that Jesus Christ was born into the world when people were still innocent and then sin began to exist? Because it is clear that the tares were sown in the field after the wheat had been sown before.

Their next mistake is that if they think that the tares are evil hearts, then would God be willing to let people with such hearts live in sin until the end, as Jesus Christ said in…

MATTHEW 13:30 – Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.

If they reason like that, then did Jesus Christ come into the world to save only the good people, and leave the wicked until the end of the world? If so, then why do Christians preach to sinners? Their reasoning completely contradicts the Lord’s principle that He came into the world to save everyone, especially sinners.

Therefore, we can see that from ancient times until now, many people have interpreted this second parable very wrongly, thinking that its meaning is the same as the first parable and then trying to bend and manipulate God’s words to suit their personal ideas.

(to be continued)