I believe Adam is a real man and Eve is a real woman. Is the tree of Knowledge an actual tree or a symbol. If it's a symbol what does it symbolize?
2006-08-19 14:59:26 · 17 answers · asked by t_mundell 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
its a real tree.
2006-08-19 15:06:02 · answer #1 · answered by Lfeata 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If u believe in Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, then the answer is really simple. The Tree of Knowledge would have been an actual tree inside of the Garden of Eden according to the Bible. A tree that bared apples that could be eating to obtain knowledge of God and is essence.
2006-08-19 22:08:06 · answer #2 · answered by vedderemg 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A variation of the word for "tree" in the original Hebrew may also refer to an individual.
In some cases, and even in other languages, it still does:
Mar 8:22 And they came to Bethsaida: and they bring to him a blind man. And they besought him that he would touch him.
Mar 8:23 And taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town. And spitting upon his eyes, laying his hands on him, he asked him if he saw any thing.
Mar 8:24 And looking up, he said: I see men, as it were TREES, walking.
It unlikely that anyone knows for sure exactly what happened in the garden.
God is saving all details for judgment day.
2006-08-19 23:19:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tree, the snake and Eve are all symbols of life and nature.
People a long time ago interpreted these symbols as being 'evil' and that is how Christianity separated itself from life and nature.
2006-08-19 22:14:48 · answer #4 · answered by Bad Buddhist 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is an actual tree. It is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It symbolizes mans choice of free will. He knew of the tree, what it meant, what it stood for, he even knew what would happen if he chose to disobey God and eat the fruit any way.
The tree symbolizes mans choice of freewill.
2006-08-19 22:19:44 · answer #5 · answered by creeklops 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Two reasonable answers out of that whole mess. It absolutely amazes me that so many people today have been infected with some sort of insidious mental virus that leads them to the insane certainty that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant bunch of Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about fundamental matters of existence and reality. A universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven, solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth), talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, shepherd staff turning into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, conception by a ghost, people rising from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting seas, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from dust bunnies and ribs, magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush, ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.
In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of this crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free looney pass.
2006-08-19 22:56:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a literal tree and the name if the tree is in the Bible.The tree had
fruit on it and Adam ate the fruit.[FIG]
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
They just had eaten the fruit and took leaves to make a covering for
their sin.I don't believe a apple leaf is big enough to cover you with.
In Christ in Love,
TJ57
2006-08-19 22:14:32 · answer #7 · answered by TJ 57 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Real tree. If Adam and Eve are real, so are the trees.
2006-08-19 22:04:27 · answer #8 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think the tree of knowledge was really a learning experience for adam and eve...and they ate of the forbidden fruit after eve being tempted by the devil....a snake in the bible....but it also was the tree of life with beautiful apples that was tempting to adam and eve just as things today are tempting to us but we should not indulge in them any way....
2006-08-19 22:07:46 · answer #9 · answered by sanangel 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
t_mundell,
I think that it is real. there was something about it that was evil. It simply wasn't fruit. I guess you can say that the fruit was poisonous.
By the way, I am so sick of seeing people use apples to portray it.
On kind of interesting thing on that is, the Genus of apple is Malus. Pronounced the same as Malice.
2006-08-19 22:10:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it was an actual tree-- but there isn't anyone today to really verify that, so an argument can be made either way.
2006-08-19 22:05:15 · answer #11 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋