What Was the Forbidden Fruit?

Question

A mind expanding drug?

Answer 1

It is an idea. A concept so earth shattering, that one bite will change your life forever...I speak in the present tense because the Tree still is...

Answer 2

Yes, it had both the properties of poison to the eternal body and the flesh of an angel, but it also opened up the mind for previous knowledge of good and evil.
I think the book of genesis opens up after the resurrection of adams body, the same type of resurrection that mankind may find is the future of our existence as an eternal being.
however the tree might be a symbol of satan alone. and the two trees could represent both Jesus and lucifer. or satan. One wanted power and said can be god, the other said I will become god and sacrifice so that people can be saved.
God chose the plan of jesus and satan rebelled but God saw that it was right to let everyone choose for themselves andhoped that most people would choose right

Now, i used to believe that being taught that the apple was the forbidden fruit. but I rejected that theory almost immediately in my youth. the fruit had to be edible and had to be good for food. otherwise a straight symbolic interpretation cannot be true. . Ok some have thought that forbidden fruit was a mushroom that grew out of the pine tree. i began to believe it was a BUD from a marijuana plant because smoking it does alter the mind. But then someone told me that it was an exotic fruit that looks kinda purple. but that was too easy to reject. Finally someone said that it was a Fig, because the genesis story said adam and eve covered themselves with fig leaves.
i personally had a vision experience where a i found a tree that would never die even though it grew up in an urban place somewhere in the east, and the fruit dangled in front ofmy face until i woke up from the trance i was in. I also experienced a vision typ dream where I went to a tree with fruit that glowed like the tree of life. I believe i chose to partake of it. but my memory fails me on the specific details.

Answer 3

The term "forbidden fruit" is a popular metaphor that describes any object of desire whose appeal is a direct result of the knowledge that cannot or should not be obtained. The phrase refers to the Book of Genesis[1], where it is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. As a result of eating this fruit, Adam and Eve lost their innocence, began to know good and evil, and were exiled from the garden where they were forced to adopt agriculture under less than desirable circumstances for a living. The concept of "knowing" good and evil can be best understood as being emotionally entangled with the struggle of determining the difference.

Popularly, the fruit has been identified as an apple (perhaps as a Latin pun of 'malus' sounding like 'evil' and 'apple'), although the Bible does not identify the fruit as an apple. Judaism teaches that the fruit may have been either grape, fig, wheat, or citron. In recent years, some researchers are supporting the fact that the forbidden fruit is actually a pomegranate, from the supposed location of the Garden of Eden. However, as man was given permission to eat all the fruits of the garden, it has been proposed that the forbidden fruit was animal flesh, since this act introduced death into the Garden and, more importantly, breaks the second commandment[2] given to Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis, that is, to be vegetarian.

In the philosophical novel Ishmael, the story of eating the forbidden fruit is described as a metaphor for the loss of quality of life caused by the change from hunter-gatherer culture to an agriculture-based society.

The term most generally refers to any indulgence or pleasure that is considered illegal or immoral and potentially dangerous or harmful, particularly relating to such things as human sexuality (underage, extramarital, or otherwise), recreational drug use, and underage alcoholic beverage consumption.

In some biblical interpretations, the 'apple' was a metaphor for sexuality, 'the first sin' and so forth. This is heavily disputed, especially since the first commandment[3] given to Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis was to "be fruitful and multiply".

Answer 4

It wasn't the fruit it's self but what it represented.
Satan the Devil challenged God’s *sovereignty*. Satan charged God with lying and implied that Jehovah was unfair in not letting Adam and Eve decide for themselves what was right and what was wrong. By taking of the fruit of “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad,” Adam and Eve expressed their rebellion. The Creator, as Universal Sovereign, was acting wholly within his right in making the law regarding the tree, for Adam, being a created person, and not sovereign, had limitations, and he needed to acknowledge this fact. For universal peace and harmony, it would devolve upon all reasoning creatures to acknowledge and support the Creator’s sovereignty. Adam would demonstrate his recognition of this fact by refraining from eating the fruit of that tree. As father-to-be of an earth full of people, he must prove obedient and loyal, even in the smallest thing. The principle involved was: “The person faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and the person unrighteous in what is least is unrighteous also in much.” (Lu 16:10) Adam had the capability for such perfect obedience. There was evidently nothing bad intrinsically in the fruit of the tree itself. (The thing forbidden was not sex relations, for God had commanded the pair to “fill the earth.” (Ge 1:28), rather it was just an ordinary tree, no different from any other except that *represented* Gods right to rule over man. By refraining from touching that one tree Adam and Eve could have expressed their love and obedience for their creator.

Answer 5

Mankind has always said it was an apple and now-a-days the forbidden fruit is unknown to mankind.

Answer 6

as far as i know forbidden fruit in the story of creation is not an apple. if the tree is named as the tree of knowledge then the fruit is named as fruit of knowledge..

Answer 7

The Bible does not say what type of fruit it was as that is unimportant. The fruit of that tree was not one of a kind but the tree itself was as that tree belonged to God in that he was not allowing it's fruit to be eaten.

Answer 8

Intercourse with satan bringing forth Cain a demon-human hybrid.

Answer 9

I've been told it was an apple.

Answer 10

an apple