Did God think mustard seed is the smallest seed[or the people who wrote the bible misquoted God]see below?

Matthew 13:31-32 states that %26quot;The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed... is the smallest of all seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree.%26quot;











there are smaller seeds eg orchid seeds

Did God think mustard seed is the smallest seed[or the people who wrote the bible misquoted God]see below?
Either option is bad news for christianity





The first option means God was wrong. Which means that God isn%26#039;t infallable.





The first option means the God can%26#039;t control what%26#039;s happening to the bible, which means the bible is unreliable.
Reply:Bah, yes, I made a mistake. It should read





%26quot;The second option means that God can%26#039;t control...%26quot;





I was in a hurry Report It

Reply:Jesus was merely using the example of the mustard seed because it was what the people he was speaking to could relate to. It was the smallest seed they had ever dealt with.
Reply:At that time and place, the mustard was the smallest known to those people, and the smallest that grows into something great! He was using a metaphor for those people to understand! They understood that a musterd seed was small, and that it became something big! Just like eve if their faith is small, God will make it into something big!!! Reading into things a bit much. That was ment to be a metaphor for those people to understand! they understood that quite well!!!
Reply:I think Jesus chose this particular seed for a reason because he was very careful with his choice of words. I%26#039;m not familiar with the seed or the plant, but I guess it was less to do with the seed and more to do with visible smallness of the seed and how large a plant it grows into. I%26#039;m sure there are even smaller seeds than orchid seeds, some of which would be invisible to the naked eye. In theory you could have nearly single cell seeds (but I guess that depends on what you define a seed is), so the actual size isn%26#039;t important.
Reply:I think you%26#039;re being a bit literal. Whatever Jesus was supposed to be saying, I don%26#039;t think it was a botany lesson.
Reply:Of the trees that were native to that region at the time of his ministry, it was the smallest seed. Orchids are not trees; full grown orchids are quite small next to mustard trees.





Context, my friend, context.
Reply:The Greatest of Shrubs, that sounds like a Pokémon.





%26quot;The Greatest of Shrubs! Sudowoodo, I choose you!%26quot;
Reply:Hmmm you cut out %26quot;it is the smallest of all YOUR seeds%26quot;... Maybe the people did not have orchid seeds so they couldn%26#039;t relate with it. Parables were always meant to have a relative meaning for the listener.
Reply:The other option, is that Jesus was just this guy, see?
Reply:It says least not smallest. Jesus talks about least as poor or not powerful when he refers to people, it isnt necessarily the size.
Reply:This is a comparison of small seed in comparison with the outgrowth.
Reply:ya...its all cult bs