2006-09-07 05:09:09 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where
art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou
shouldest not eat?
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me,
she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
2006-09-07 05:20:58 · update #1
No, it hasn't. I'll bet you think that about everything..
2006-09-07 05:11:47 · answer #1 · answered by yahoohoo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The forbidden fruit is the metaphor for knowledge. So in essence it could be anything the knowledge of one's own sexuality and the desires we possess. But think of it more like this. Im sure you have seen the movie the matrix. Would it be better to know or not to know ?how far down the tunnel would you chase the rabbit? You see god knew that once adam and eve had the knowledge of good and evil their perception would change and therefore change their experience and the vision of their world, internally and externally. It was deemed the forbidden fruit because knowldege is only attained through suffering and tribulation. God is merely just a parent he created us but we still choose our own paths.
2006-09-07 05:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by fryedaddy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fruit of the "Tree of Life" gave them knowledge. See, before Adam and Eve ate of the fruit, they were naked, but did not know that their nakedness was something to hide or be ashamed of. Once they ate the fruit, they knew they were naked and thought maybe they should cover themselves because they were embarassed to suddenly be naked before God. Too me, Eden was innocence, a place where everything was perfect because they knew of nothing else. Once they ate of the fruit, their minds were awakened to other possibilities, they lost their innocence because they started to think about things. Look at children, when they are young, they are innocent and happy because they do not know of the hurt that people commit in this world. As they become older and acquire more knowledge that innocence and many times carefree happiness is lost. That is what I believe happened to Adam and Eve. Instead of them losing it after years of exposure to society, they lost it in an instant, the second they broke God's law.
2006-09-07 05:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by novella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. The forbidden fruit is the apple That God forbid Adam and Eve to eat. The snake in the Garden of Eden (Satin) convinces Eve to eat the fruit and She convinced Adam to eat it. They were banished from the garden and given a mortals life.Thus giving them the ability to produce children.
So the forbidden fruit is actually temptation, but because it allowed us to procreate it is thought of as sex.
2006-09-07 05:15:09 · answer #4 · answered by momof2borninmarch 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe this is why "blind faith" supersedes everything in Christianity: The Bible is the only book that can be interpreted to serve any purpose you want. Christians use it to love, accept, condemn, judge -- and opposing religions use it to shove right back in their faces and call them hypocrites. I vote that any contradicting verses in the Bible should cancel each other out. Then what would they base their "faith" on? There is no other best-selling book that is so subjective to individual interpretation. Don't you think that God would want his message to be clear, and not dependent on Man's delivery and interpretation? If God answers prayer in clear message, why couldn't He write a comprehensible Book? Seems like a cruel joke to me (or a sure way to make the masses dependent on a church), not a gift from a loving Father.
2006-09-07 05:22:24 · answer #5 · answered by georgia b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I thought the forbidden fruit simply represented anything that was a temptation but "forbidden". Eve eating the forbidden fruit was ancient man's explanation for how we opened "Pandora's Box" and allowed evil into the world. Because it was a patriarchal society, we had to make woman to blame.
2006-09-07 05:16:34 · answer #6 · answered by kathy s 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it is literally the FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Sex came AFTER they ate it. Read the Genisis account again in chapter 2:15-23. Adam was told not to eat it BEFORE Eve was even created!
2006-09-07 05:20:41 · answer #7 · answered by dooder 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not always although it is seen as such. It's more of a catch all phrase for something you want but probably shouldn't have.
For kerilyn, you poor thing, what happened to you that you think sex is somehow dirty.
2006-09-07 05:14:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
All of man's knowledge like "breaking the ten commandments is good." Such knowledge belongs to man only in man's own evil mind.
God's knowledge of keeping the ten commandments and loving God and the neighbor is much better and leads to life.
2006-09-07 05:12:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm thinking no, because sex in and of itself, is not bad. I can understand where you got the question though. the term forbidden fruit is used that way in romance novels, movies, etc.
2006-09-07 05:15:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh… no. The point of the story is that God gave us everything we needed to live comfortably and happily with only one very simple rule. And, of course, we broke this rule because we felt like doing our own thing.
2006-09-07 05:12:13 · answer #11 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋