If allegory, explain just what was eaten and why it aroused god's displeasure?
2006-10-28 13:31:26 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Real Fruit.
2006-10-28 13:33:18 · answer #1 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a real fruit.
For Adam and Eve to qualify as being created perfect, must all their decisions thereafter be right? That would be the same as saying that they had no choice. But God did not make them in such a way that their obedience would be automatic. God granted them the ability to choose, so that they could obey because they loved him. Or, if they allowed their hearts to become selfish, they would become disobedient. Which means more to you—when someone does something for you because he is forced to do it or because he wants to?—Compare Deuteronomy 11:1; 1 John 5:3.
2006-10-28 13:39:31 · answer #2 · answered by papavero 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, so for the 1st portion of your question, specific, Eve did understand with regard to the fruit; she knew precisely what might take place, and as a result it took distinctive persuasion from a snake to get her to devour it. God does no longer enable them to die interior the backyard of Eden; it quite is by potential of ingesting the fruit that they lost their immorality and doomed the human race. specific, she did think of the fruit might make her like God, through snake. besides the shown fact that, Adam and Eve lived very long. people lifestyles spans, after them, began to get steadily shorter and shorter till 40 replaced right into a lifestyles like lifestyles span. in the present day, individuals are as quickly as returned residing longer and longer, having standard the end results of temptation, and are actually striving to evade them. those clever individuals are those putting new age documents and not loss of lifestyles in intense-velocity vehicle crashes or OD'ing on drugs.
2016-12-28 07:25:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real fruit... no one knows what kind it was... it most likely, in my opinion, is a fruit no longer availabel to mankind...God did lock man out of the Garden... God made a rule and mankind broke that rule... just that simple... it was a simple thing for man to obay that rule... because man had the full run of all the rest of The Garden...for a simple thing man lost all that God had provided.
2006-10-28 13:35:27 · answer #4 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was real fruit as we know it. An apple, most likely not. if it is some kind of allegory, we can only speculate. In any case it really doesn't matter concern our own salvation.
2006-10-28 13:34:33 · answer #5 · answered by Coool 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the real literal fruit. The fruit with the power of the knowledge of good and evil.
2006-10-28 13:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by Levi G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a real fruit,I believe. Just maybe not an Apple.
2006-10-28 13:34:42 · answer #7 · answered by whataboutme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fruit of knowledge of good and evil fruit was knowing good and evil.Before they ate it they only knew to obey God and all things were good.
2006-10-28 13:42:00 · answer #8 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was real fruit...God told them not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil..but they did and that (disobedience) is sin..but the motive was to "be like God"..so it all comes down to power again and again.
2006-10-28 17:47:22 · answer #9 · answered by candi_k7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not a apple, the fact that it opened there eyes suggest to me a Strong hallucinogenic.
2006-10-28 13:36:00 · answer #10 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋