Was it a metaphor or literal? or symbolizing something?
2006-12-25 13:28:41 · 17 answers · asked by Mark 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it symbolised trust and acknowledgement of gods authority
2006-12-25 13:30:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No pricey, there is more desirable to it than meets the interest! The tree of recognize-how of solid and evil refers back to the actual realm that's ruled through the dimensions of Time and area. ultimately we are able to bypass previous those obstacles into larger and better vibrations so as that aspect ceases to exist and the know-how of the guy expands into the All. party, close your eyes, now do you spot any "up" or "down"? there is an life that surpasses our constrained actual international. On yet another aspect the forged and evil refers back to the relative international the position we basically recognize reason and result, the international of opposites alongside with action and reaction, correct as against incorrect. you'll opt to imagine of those as being at opposite ends and halfway is the balancing aspect. that's the Tree of existence, the religious centre, which is conscious no reaction. Fruit - there are various descriptions for this. interior the Ethiopian historic past it really is a pomegranate, basically an emblem.
2016-10-16 21:38:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tree is metaphor for desire, the story is an allegory of how mankind forgot their oneness with God in spirit (ethereal) and became more dense, being "clothed" in skin. Adam and eve are metaphors for all humanity. Knowledge of good and evil, is metaphor for experiencing duality. All this because they needed the gross body and a sense of duality to express Gods vision of himself. The body is but a space suit & the brain an emotions are but a very sophisticated computer. As in the star trek holodeck.
2006-12-25 14:17:00 · answer #3 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve is about how innocence and ignorance are lost at the same time. They start out as two carefree humans who know nothing and are essentially children until one day they eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. They grow up like when children learn to be ashamed of their naked bodies. Anyone who is old can understand the more you know about people and the world, the more you will be hurt by it. Losing your childhood is learning despair as Adam and Eve are cast out of their sheltered world of frivolity. The reality of life is much suffering. The outside world of pain and misery that they never cared about is now their home. God represents life, and life is unfair.
2006-12-25 13:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by This Virus Called Language 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pretty easy question. It was a fig. Genesis 3.6-7.
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. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized they were naked so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves."
It is clear that they immediately gained wisdom and immediately made clothing from fig leaves. Their desire to hide their nakedness was immediate so they would have used that which was in the immediate vicinity. Had they been standing in front of an apple tree, they would have used apple leaves, in front of an orange tree, orange leaves. But since they used fig leaves, they were in front of a fig tree, therefore the fruit they ate came from that tree.
It was a fig.
2006-12-25 13:48:53 · answer #5 · answered by forgivebutdonotforget911 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You miss the point. God did not forbid the eating of the fruit from that tree because of something about the fruit.
God gave a LAW not to eat of that tree. That law was disobeyed. Death was the outcome God forewarned when He gave that LAW. We inherit that outcome. Christ paid that outcome on the cross with His death, paying substitutionally the price for our disobedience.
That's the answer from God.
2006-12-25 13:37:05 · answer #6 · answered by Piguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the Tree of Knowledge, no Good and Evil.
2006-12-25 13:31:46 · answer #7 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i thnk your a little confused. the tree of knowledge and the tree of good and evil were completely different trees....the metaphors pretty literal in both counts....
2006-12-25 13:31:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Metaphor for wisdom, the knowledge of all things good and evil. They wanted to know how they, too, could be like God and he told them with great power comes great responsibility, and so they must have wisdom first.
"All who learn must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon our hearts. And in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
They had it so good in the garden, and God explained to them that suffering was really, really bad. In the end, Lucifer managed to convince them that wisdom was worth it, and so they convinced God they would not be happy until they had wisdom.
2006-12-25 13:30:15 · answer #9 · answered by Atlas 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Bible doesn't say. Some people say the Apple, but if you read Genesis, it doesn't say. So, therefore we cannot add to what the Bible say. The answer is: We don't know what type of fruit it was. P.S. It's literal. A real fruit.
2006-12-25 13:31:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
THE ANSWER IS KNOWLEDGE
They ate (assimilated or consumed knowledge) from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Satan).
That's why God said;
Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
We all must eat (assimilate or consume knowledge) of the tree of life (Jesus Christ), to live for ever.
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2006-12-25 13:30:49 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋