2006-06-16 15:33:14 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-06-16 15:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alot of Pagan rituals deal with the apple. If you cut an apple open, just split it right down the middle, and look at it (the way the seeds are layed out) then you will see it is in the shape of a star/pentagram.
The Wiccan religion uses the pentagram and more often the pentacle as their religious symbol. As many Pagans do also.
Seeing as the apple is associated with these religious beliefs the Christian community decided that apples were the forbidden fruit.
There were even nut job people running around at one point in time telling us all that we should not be eating apples because they are from Satan.
Silly people. See what happens when you think too much.
~Gypsy~
2006-06-16 15:45:37 · answer #2 · answered by Gypsy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The forbidden fruit was never described more than that it provided the knowledge of good and evil. Americans are most familiar with the apple; therefore they associate the apple with the forbidden fruit. In societies where the apple is rare they may envision the forbidden fruit to be a mango, or a date, or a plum.
The forbidden fruit is whatever causes one to disobey God.
2006-06-16 15:43:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Milton would have chosen it for different causes, even if it sprang into pop custom because the Latin note malus can propose both "evil" (via the indisputable fact that is used in Lat. Vul. of Gen. 2:17) or "apple tree." for that reason, human beings got here to believe, through complicated the meaning, that the forbidden fruit became the apple.
2016-11-14 21:23:52 · answer #4 · answered by weagraff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible doesn't call it an apple. It calls it a fruit just as the Bible says that Jonah was swallowed by a big fish and it does not say a whale.
Eden was not in Israel. It was in Africa as far as the researchers can figure.
People just like to say apple and they like to call the lump in a man's throat where his vocal cords are located the Adam's apple.
2006-06-16 15:38:55 · answer #5 · answered by fingerpicknboys 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Apple Trees, I believe. :) It was just a forbidden fruit. But, apples are associated with knowledge by many, many, MANY different religions.
- 16 yo Pagan
2006-06-16 15:35:29 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Myrkr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calling it an apple is according to traditions. There's alot of fig trees in Israel.
2006-06-16 16:06:00 · answer #7 · answered by Jeff B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Genesis is not meant to be taken literaly.
2) Theologists think the Garden of Eden was in Iraq.
3) The tree in all actuality was probably a fig tree.
2006-06-16 15:41:38 · answer #8 · answered by Zara 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 'forbidden fruit' is symbolism in Christianity and in Judiasm, it stands for what the first woman did wrong- it's a farcity, it's a man made misconception to make sure that women feel like lesser beings... Which obviously, we are not!!!
2006-06-16 15:40:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Garden of Eden isn't in Israel.
2) It wasn't an apple tree.
2006-06-16 15:34:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
apples were only considered the forbidden fruit recently. the original fruit most associated with the forbidden fruit was the quince.
2006-06-16 15:39:32 · answer #11 · answered by PETER P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋