*****Does anyone /really/ know what the forbidden fruit was?****?

Question

And please don't say apple, because I want to know if you think that the phrase "forbidden fruit" can possibly represent something else.

Answer 1

*****Does anyone /really/ know what the forbidden fruit was?****?

if your looking for a literal fruit? the Bible does not say.

what the Bible does say is it was of the Tree of Good & Evil.

Answer 2

The "forbiden fruit" was purely symbolic. Here is the breakdown of the symbolism. Adam and Eve represented Man in the early stages of awareness, naive and childlike. The Tree in the center of the garden is the tree of life which produced the "forbidden fruit" of Knowledge. The serpent represents Mans curiosity and the need for knowledge. The fruit gave adam and eve godlike knowledge. The conversation in Genisis went something like this:

God: I give you man dominion of all you see except the tree in the center of the garden. Do not eat of the fruit or you will die.

Serpent to Eve: Eat of the fruit of the tree, you will not die but you will know good and evil and will have knowledge like god.

We all know what happens after that. Although they did not die, instead they lived for a very looooooooooooooong time and had 3 children. Cain, Abel and Seth. They are made aware of their nakedness ect, ect. It is symbolic of forbidden knowledge that god did not want us to know.

There was no real actual fruit to be eaten. Although through the ages it is depicted as a red fruit, mistaken as the apple. The apple was chosed since it was the easiest one for an artist to paint or draw.

By the way I am not a christian but a witch. I doubt that you will get an answer like mine from a fundie. They usually spout scripture and no meaning.

Answer 3

The scriptures do not specifiy a fruit by name. Tradition among the Jews holds that it was a citron, while Christians tend to think of it as an apple and have represented it thus in works of art, further adding to the misconception that we have knowledge of what fruit was picked by Eve. We simply do not know because we are not told by the person who wrote the story. The fruit is merely symbolic of something that is attractive and pleasing to us, creating within us a sense of hunger and desire. In many ways, we are like Eve, always reaching out for fruit that looks good to us, in a society that is increasinly material and consumer oriented. So, while it's an old and strange tale, it isn't hard to imagine ourselves in Eve's position, desiring something that she probably doesn't need, but just wants to have. Bible stories are often like this, analogies or allegories, in which we can try to situate ourselves in aspects of modern life. So, the story of Eve and the apple is not a historical account, but more of a universal story that we might read and see if there are parts of it with which we identify.

Answer 4

If it was sex, they should have just said sex. No babies without it though. Something has to be forbidden or else no guilt and not much money to the church to absolve it either then.

I like the add in which a cute mostly nude woman is offered an apple by a snake. She says, "if I take it we will have parking ickets and all sorts of bad things." Then she throws the apple at the large snake.

Answer 5

First off, most theologians say that the fruit of the "forbidden fruit" was the pomegranate. They also say that the "forbidden fruit" was the actual act of eating the pomegranate from the Tree of Knowledge.
The apple itself is a fairly new fruit...and some experts say the the pomegranate is the oldest.

Answer 6

well it is apple really but in the way that your asking the apple is a symbol and its a symbol of knowledge. apples have always been synonimous with teachers and knowledge it was a apple that is concerned with newton and gravity. it is this knowledge of judgement that the bible is really talking about. how after we ate the apple we knew good and evil. but really that is the key isnt it? actually its the key that keeps the truth of power of personal spirituality from the masses of sheep that are the believers of the bible. and the keepers of the bible have fought tooth and nail for more then a thousand years to keep that knowledge out of the hands of its sheep. from the dawn of christianity the church and its people have fought against every single knowledge advance that humans have come across. even today they make it seem like genetic engineering is satans way for making life out of gods hands. when a genetically grown heart or liver or kidney would save millions of people and it would be a cure for organ problems because since its grown from your own dna it wont be rejected by the body! galileo suffered, christopher columbus suffered, copernicus suffered, and the people who have explored magick spirit and witchcraft have suffered seriously at the hands of the church that knows that as soon as the sheep get the truth they are seriously out of business!!

Answer 7

forbidden fruit

The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, often pictured as an apple, which God forbade Adam and Eve to eat. Their disobedience brought about the Fall of Man.


“Forbidden fruit” is used commonly to refer to anything that is tempting but potentially dangerous. It is often associated with sexuality.

Answer 8

That first answer is funny!

Nope. Nobody knows. It could be a really common fruit, because once we had the knowledge of good and evil through Adam and Eve, it wouldn't make any difference to have more.

What's the yummiest fruit in the world to you? I love peaches - they would be a temptation to me. Or maybe it was a tree that died after its purpose was fulfilled.

Answer 9

First off, it absolutely wasn't apple because there weren't apples in that area of the world at that time. Some say pomegranates or figs.
However, you have to realize that whole thing is allegorical and written down from fables passed on verbally from generation to generation.

Answer 10

The Bible doesn't indicate what kind of fruit it was, it just says that it was "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Bad". It was one tree among many that the Bible describes as 'desirable to one's sight and good for food.'

The Tree of Knowledge represented God's "right to rule" to decide what was good and bad. But Eve,when tempted by the Devil, decided to take the fruit and eat. She then took it to her husband, who knew what he was doing when he ate the fruit. Then they began to see things in a different way. Satan had slandered God, called him a liar saying Adam and Eve wouldn't die if they ate the fruit. Since God is a God of Justice, he knew it would take time to prove that mankind did need him to rule them, so he has allowed all of this time for humans to try every form of government to prove that we can't do it w/o him.

Adam and Eve did begin to die that day. Not only were they dead spiritually to God, no longer having the close relationship to him, they also began to die physically. Because they were so close to perfection, it took them longer to die than by today's standards, but they died within 1000 years and 2 Peter 3:8 says a day to God is like a thousand years to us.