...more impressive than eating an apple?
if eating an apple is a sin no wonder we all are sinners.
And if god didnt want adam and eve to eat the fruit, why did he create the garden?
do you put alcohol in your children hands and tell them not to drink??
2007-01-20 11:49:34 · 16 answers · asked by whoknows 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
so now the fruit is an analogy but when it serves you one has to take the bible literally. what a convenient religion you have (and consistent as well)
2007-01-20 12:00:26 · update #1
It's a stupid analogy for having sex.
2007-01-20 11:55:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
This is funny. If you had read the bible you would see that the fruit is not mentioned by name. And while we do not put alcohol in the hands of children it is never the less all around them in society. As children grow up they will exercise free will, just as Adam and Eve did, and make choices that will effect their lives. The story has and is repeated in all our lives today. It is the sow what you reap story, or simply stated there are inevitable consequences for every choice we make. Like Adam and Eve we learn through this and hopefully become better people.
2007-01-20 12:01:05 · answer #2 · answered by 6785bluerose 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ARe you taking that literally? Come on! Besides that it wasn't necessarily an apple. It was the fruit of the tree of good and evil. The tree of good and evil grows outside the womb. It is the world of opposites. The womb is the garden of Eden, a steady state environment where there are no opposites(perceived). Eve is the soul and Adam is the body. When developed to the appropriate degree the brain of the fetus pumps a hormone (pitosin) into the mothers blood which begins the birth process. The serpent itself is a symbol in many parts of the world for the intellect of man. Talking snakes? Well yeah, everytime you open your mouth it is your intellect on low, medium or high doing its thing.
When you leave the womb you die to that world and live in the next. So of course you die in a sense when you leave the womb and are born into the world of the knowledge of good and evil.
2007-01-20 11:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by regmor12 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is eating the "apple" the original sin? Face it up until eating of the tree of knowledge (good & evil) they would have no concept of sin anyway (adam eve) Or was the sin more likely afterwards after eating and gaining the knowledge.. that bit where they were Naked and ashamed before thier god.. and well told him so.. Hey GOD you didnt create us right... Now if i was gonna pick a sin.. Umm I think i'd pick that one.. at that point they knew right from wrong having gained said knowledge from eating of the tree LOL
Umm I also cant say as i find a reference to God telling EVE not to eat from the tree.. she came later...
(hey its ya'lls book i just happen to be some one whos actually read the damn thing...)
2007-01-20 12:00:48 · answer #4 · answered by darchangel_3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original sin was disobedience to God Almighty. God does not want robots to worship Him. If there was no "Tree of Life"
Adam and Eve would not have had a choice. God wants us to "Choose" him, not be programmed to follow Him. That is why God commanded them not to eat from the tree. Without a choice, there can be no true worship. We must all decide to either follow Christ Jesus, or reject Him. I believe God chose an apple to symbolize this, because an apple satisfies a basic need, Hunger. If they were hungry, God wanted them to rely on His provision for them. Instead, they sinned and rejected Gods provision for them. Even so, even after they sinned, the scriptures say that God clothed them with animal skin.
They rejected His provision and yet God still wanted fellowship with them and still wanted to supply their physical and spiritual needs. What a glorious God we have in heaven!!
God Bless You....Peace.
2007-01-20 14:01:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It definitely was not like putting alcohol in kids' hand. They were in a perfect place, with plenty to eat and enjoy,and the only thing that they had to do was not eat from one single tree, but they did. It shows people are very capable of committing sin, even for the simplest thing. Plus they were only two people, what other temptations were there?In Islam Adam and Eve asked for forgiveness from their Lord, and were forgiven, but sent down to earth, where we now face the same trial, except with different temptations.
2007-01-20 12:09:46 · answer #6 · answered by sam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says no where it was an APPLE, They ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil. Not the Tree of Life, as God wanted. The book of Genesis is a fine line between, metafors & symbolism, and was written in such a way that 1500 years ago it would have made sense to most everyone!
The forbidden fuit is not a metaor for sex... It is a metafor for being tempted & chosing something other than what God wants for you, because they thought Satan & themselves knew better than God!
2007-01-20 11:56:27 · answer #7 · answered by Boppysgirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The apple is just an analogy for forbidden fruit, meaning things which are off-limits. You know, temptations.
2007-01-20 11:58:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 11:32:19 · answer #9 · answered by riesgo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the first sin was the arrogant cocky attitude that we might know better than God, and that God isn't really interested or wise enough to determine what's in our best interest.
Sound familiar?
2007-01-20 11:56:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The forbidden fruit is not identified as an apple.
2007-01-20 11:55:39 · answer #11 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋