in the garden of Eden was an APPLE. The bible just says "fruit" not an apple. It coulda been guava for all we know. :o)
2006-10-12 05:27:17 · 10 answers · asked by Light 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't know what bible you're reading, but there is NO mention of an apple... not that it matters though. :o) Thanks!
For your reading pleasure:
Genesis 3:2-6
The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
2006-10-12 05:52:52 · update #1
I do not know does it matter
2006-10-12 05:32:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason they assume that the Ark (which means a box) was a boat; that the original sin was sex, and not the eating of the fruit from the tree of knowledge; that Christ died on branchless tree, instead of a cross; and that modern Christians (New Israelites) didn't just start turning away from the teachings of Christ, they started doing that in the time of the Apostle Paul, when he said he felt as if he had worked for nothing, because they had turned back to the rituals, holidays, and observances of man.
2006-10-12 13:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have four different Bibles, and all of them say Apple. Does it really make that much difference, though, what kind of fruit it was? There's much more symbolism there than what meets the eye, and so it's irrelevant whether the fruit was apple, guava, pear, or pomegranate.
2006-10-12 12:35:58 · answer #3 · answered by gldjns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was actually a quince. But adam(pbuh) is more important than that tree and a fruit. We all ate some kind of fruit that was not permitted in our life. For analogy sake. But we judge him as if we are that much better than him. Ascribing false doctrines to his name with no fear of recompse to the action thereof.
2006-10-12 13:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by Mitchell B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mmmm...guava....
I don't know. But supposing the whole garden of eden thing is true, when/if I get to heaven, I'm gonna kick Eve's @ss. Damnit, she's got a lot to answer for. Just because the ho got hungry, I've got to suffer raging cramps and bleeding every month. And don't even get me started on that whole pain in childbirth thing...
2006-10-12 12:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Latin word for "evil" is "malum" whereas the word for apple is "malus"... the two words are so similiar that 'apple' was unintentionally associated with the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.
2006-10-12 12:33:36 · answer #6 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably something to do with apples in the dark ages. Or they were the easiest things to paint.
2006-10-12 12:30:46 · answer #7 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is one of those things that are amusing... but its just... bizzarely hilarious how some people seem so confident it was an APPLE!!! not some other fruit, but an APPLE!
2006-10-12 12:31:06 · answer #8 · answered by RW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was probably a passion fruit.
2006-10-12 12:30:49 · answer #9 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they assume lots of other things to... whatever makes them happy.
2006-10-12 12:29:29 · answer #10 · answered by Sunseaandair 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋