I mean, if Adam had opened a strip joint and Eve smoked pot or something, then that would be kinda cool, right? But an apple? Don't you think this satan dude would have come up with something a little better than an apple? How about dirty magazines? Anything but a silly apple!
2007-01-22 10:48:05 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Omg, that's so funny. I soooooooo agree with you. I'm still laughing here. It would of been a lot more fun back in my Sunday School days too. Good question. !!!~~~~
2007-01-22 10:52:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
It could have been a little more fun, you're right. It doesn't
even have a good ending to the story, and probably
wasn't mean to.
Slight problem, though. Nothing in the story says that the fruit
was an apple.
I've read some pretty stupid attempts to explain the story.
Since I wasn't there when it happened, I'm not sure how
I could explain it either. Except to say that we are how
we are because we are all interested in ourselves.
We're not the way we are because of an apple, and an
atheist could tell you that. I have a friend who's an atheist.
It can't be "free will" either. I didn't ask to be born.
I didn't choose my job.
I didn't choose to get punished every time I did wrong,
but it was done any way. I'd like it better if we were all
in the garden of Eden, but we're not. That's how much
my "free will" and "free choice" matter.
That "satan dude" didn't even come up with the idea of a
fruit with the knowledge of evil in it. Whether I like it, or
don't, whether I'm happy with it or not, the book said that
the tree was God's idea.
I laugh that people blame Eve for that whole thing. The
new testament blames Adam.
2007-01-22 11:04:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Admittedly, at first blush, the taking of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad seems like a "little thing." But upon closer inspection, we see that it was not.
The fruit represented the right to determine the standard of good and bad. This was a right God reserved for himself and rightfully so inasmuch as he is the Creator who gave life to Adam and Eve. He created us and not we ourselves. Indeed, Satan's challenge was not silly at all; he was very smart to introduce such an issue, as a practical matter. Satan did not challenge the power or might of God. He did not challenge God’s strength. That is a question that could have been answered on the spot.
No, Satan chose an issue he KNEW would take time to answer. When he made his scandalous, slanderous charges, he accused God of withholding something from the couple to which they had a right. The implication, further, was that because God was being deceitful and selfish, He had no right to set the standard for them - they ought to set it for themselves. And so he encouraged them to take the fruit.
Satan slandered God and in the process raised the issue of the rightfulness and the righteousness of God's rule. These are not issues that can be settled in a moment. It would take time to play it out and see if Satan was right. After all, the entire heavenly family of angels was watching this whole affair. Hmm, IS God a liar? DID he withhold something to which man has a right? CAN man do a better job by exercising self-determination independent of Jehovah? WAS there something wrong with Jehovah's human creation?
Time has told the story. Look at the pitiful state in which we find ourselves. On the brink of nuclear war. Always inches away from self-destruction. Destroying the planet. Destroying our children. Destroying our economy. And this situation is worldwide.
No, there is nothing silly about these issues at all. There are profound. And as for "little things" - do we not recall the saying? Why there was even a song about it: little things mean a lot. Even to God little things mean a lot. Consider please Luke 16:10.
Hannah J Paul
2007-01-22 11:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was the disobedience not eating of the fruit itself. They had a whole garden full of fruit and they were told only not to eat from one. They couldn't even obey that simple command. Satan appealed to vanity and that is what tripped them up. Telling Adam and Eve in a since, that if they ate what they were told not to they would be as smart as God. They wanted to believe and disobeyed God. Oh...the Bible never says exactly what type of fruit it was...it may not have been an apple:)
2007-01-22 10:54:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not necessarily an apple. But, "Fruit" and the draw wasn't the fruit They were tempted with "Knowledge" of good and evil.
Kinda like now, with the quest for knowledge being the downfall of today society. Ya Think?
Don't you think we would be more united if we were happy to just take the knowledge from God and not try to find a reason to come into being without God.
The quest for knowledge has been a stumbling block to man from the beginning.
There is nothing wrong with looking at where we've been. But to use that information to eliminate God is a sin.
2007-01-22 10:58:38 · answer #5 · answered by L Strunk 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
symbolism...your q is wayyyyy too deep for this venue...an apple a day keeps the doctor away...apples are the symbol of life...at least now they are...i don't disagree, but hey, ya gotta go with the status quo. snakes and apples...evil and good...sin and holiness...obedience, chastity, yet we are all tempted to take a "bite" every now and then...i suppose the other symbol could have been a banana, but then, the puritans would have changed that due to likeness of the sin at hand...ya just gotta accept history and adapt to the products of it. sorry...wish i could have been of more help to you. blessed be.
2007-01-22 10:54:22 · answer #6 · answered by vrandolph62 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Besides, why would adam open a strip joint, they were already naked. They didnt even know what POT was then, and dirty magazines were not around until much later....That leaves what?
You got it.......
an apple
2007-01-22 10:53:19 · answer #7 · answered by Jack P 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
the apple is a symbol for knowledge... God didn't want man eating the fruit...or becoming knowledgeable..because then we would as it says in Genesis 3:5
"For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and (D)you will be like God,"
we would be like God
as we are now. with Knowledge and reason, so we can make our own moral decisions
2007-01-22 10:57:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, we don't know WHAT type of fruit they ate. The Bible never says apple. This was the tree of knowledge, it opened their eyes to all that was around them, including evil , so ya, it was about more than an apple. it was about disobedience and lying
2007-01-22 10:51:50 · answer #9 · answered by impishone 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe that the apple was sex. A lot of folks disagree but that is what I think it symbolizes.
2007-01-22 10:52:42 · answer #10 · answered by suzy-Q 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
lol.... come on laugh, okay now breathe.
It was about obedience, God was hinting to them, " Always do what I say,"
Gen2:16-17
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die,"
understand now, it's about Obedience.
2007-01-22 11:16:09 · answer #11 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋