Can anyone show me in the Bible where it is said an Apple was the forbidden fruit?
2006-07-12 08:24:38 · 16 answers · asked by Savage 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i have always heard it was an apple as I think most have but I have been re-studying the bible and although I know that it does not really matter I think in a way it does for when asked to have my facts right.
2006-07-12 08:33:04 · update #1
No one can show you where in the Bible that an Apple was the forbidden fruit.
The Bible says the fruit that Eve gave to Adam was a "forbidden fruit", but it does not specify the variety of fruit.
2006-07-12 08:33:24 · answer #1 · answered by ijcoffin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
theres only mention in the Bible of the apple just being a fruit not a forbidden fruit, but a wasted fruit, like I think what was being said is that like a fruit we can become abundent, and prosperous,Joel, Capt1verse12, waste not want not as the saying goes.
2006-07-12 15:38:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not so important what the exact fruit was as is the overall premise that it was disobedience that God told them not to eat of the fruit of that particular tree. It could have been an apple, could have been just about any fruit that grows on a tree. Any particular reason you feel it should or should not have been an apple?
2006-07-12 15:30:42 · answer #3 · answered by kothuroti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The apple is simply iconic. It's only used to represent the forbidden fruit. No one knows what it's really supposed to be.
2006-07-12 15:35:11 · answer #4 · answered by Erin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't find "apple" in the book of Genesis because the fruit is never specified in the text. It's an allegory anyway, even though your average literalist will insist the fruit was either an apple, or (if slightly more hip) a pomegranate.
2006-07-12 15:29:22 · answer #5 · answered by trident_of_paracelsus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The forbidden fruit was sex.
The church made it into an apple to put down the pagan idea that the apple symbolizes love.
2006-07-12 15:29:32 · answer #6 · answered by mynx326 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can you make a pie from scratch out of forbidden fruit? Ha! Didn't think so!
2006-07-12 15:27:25 · answer #7 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not say what kind of fruit it was. People assume it was an apple.
2006-07-12 15:28:11 · answer #8 · answered by stick man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. That is some strange tradition. The tree and its fruit were fairly unique, it seems... Apples have less of a tang.
2006-07-12 15:31:49 · answer #9 · answered by zeropluslessthan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't an apple. That is just one of the many false traditions of the fathers.
2006-07-12 15:31:39 · answer #10 · answered by Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋