I have never heard anyone make this connection before, but when thinking about Acts 7:28, my thoughts somehow lead me to Genesis 1:11 where it says that a thing’s ‘seed is in itself.‘ Although Genesis 1:11 mostly refers to plants, trees, and other vegetation, it also applies to all living things. So, if as it says in Acts: 7:28 ‘For in Him we live, and move, and have our being’, then we can infer that all creature life exists inside God. The child in the picture of Mary and Jesus symbolizes a system existing within a larger System - a world within a World or life inside Life. Why do I think this?
Well, I have lived on this earth for several decades now and have made some observations that most people do not give much thought to even though they are instructively profound. One such observation is that every day the sun rises, it grows in strength, it peaks, it wanes, and then sets. When the sun sets it is as if it dies. It is the same for a year. There is birth (first green or spring), growth (as the sun waxes through spring and part of summer), maturity (the sun’s zenith), decline (when the sun wanes in the later part of summer going into the fall) and then death (when during winter everything seems to die). So, in thinking about these phenomena, I could not help but wonder - Does every organism that exists follow the same five stages of birth, growth, maturity, decline, and death? Yes. I think so. Except there is no death. Death is a finality illusion. The fact is that the five-stage pattern does not end in death but in rebirth.