My sons friend just gave me a fresh fig off their fig tree. I have only eaten dried figs in my lifetime and have never even seen a fresh fig before....I peeled it and ate it...sooo very sweet and good tasting! I began to think of Bible account of Adam and Eve covering themselves with the leaves of a fig tree. Could a fig be the forbidden fruit the bible speaks of? Where the idea of it being an apple come from?
2006-08-20 08:09:02 · 10 answers · asked by sweet rosie 66 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well theres a theory that its actualy sex
2006-08-20 08:19:29 · answer #1 · answered by melfina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fresh figs are my favorite fruit. No way are they the forbidden fruit.
The forbidden fruit is really more about trying to put yourself on an equal footing with God. Most of the time we do that by considering our own knowledge to be a substitute for God. That's some pretty rotten fruit. Don't be tempted!
2006-08-20 08:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by anabasisx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fruit is never actually named in the Bible, but the apple idea has been around since at least the Middle Ages.
2006-08-20 08:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by staubfinger 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is generally considered to be an apple.
Like the rest of Genesis, this seems to be copied from other pagan myths. The magic apple in the garden guarded by a snake bears strange similarity to the Greek myth of the Garden of the Hesperides and the tree of the golden apples.
2006-08-20 08:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
There is also a Tree of Life. If Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit of the Tree of Life they would live forever.
They had to leave the garden because they were no longer innocent. They would have to learn to choose between good and evil. Life is long and hard and each of us learns to make right choices or wrong choices. In Jesus Christ our relationship with God can be restored and to God we will again be innocent.
Who wouldn't want that? I want to be innocent, blameless in Christ and to eat of the Tree of Life and live forever.
2006-08-20 09:21:37 · answer #5 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fruit itself is not really important, it is the act. But it is highly probable that whatever fruit it was, does no longer exist on the face of the earth, since the Garden of Eden was closed to mankind
2006-08-20 08:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by Schuyler 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's ever said in the Bible so no one really knows for sure.
2006-08-20 08:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the forbben fruit was the apple
2006-08-20 08:15:05 · answer #8 · answered by traveller 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think its apple and i dont know why so
2006-08-20 08:14:20 · answer #9 · answered by Rane Flare 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she gave him a banana
2006-08-20 08:15:23 · answer #10 · answered by jay 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋