Why is it that we can eat apples freely now?? If they were the forbidden fruit, why aren't they poison or something??
2007-02-17 04:02:45 · 8 answers · asked by Ma'iingan 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to jewish tradition (which is, after all, where the christians get this story from), the fruit is a citron and not an apple. It wasn't commonly believed to be an apple until the Catholic church set out on the crusades and inquisition to wipe out all other faiths.. when they came across the pagans who held the apple in high esteem (if you cut it crosswise, you find a pentacle) they demonized the apple to make all things pagan less palatable.
2007-02-17 04:08:30 · answer #1 · answered by Kallan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was forbidden for them to eat the fruit because God told them not to. In general, eating fruit is not a bad thing.
2007-02-17 12:11:56 · answer #2 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the Garden of Eden, God designates one tree off limits, and he warns man never to touch its fruit on pain of death. The forbiden fruit is that of the of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The Hebrew word for knowledge, "da'at", means sexual knowledge. "To know" is the biblical verb that implies more than the sexual act alone. It is an elegant euphemism for the intimate and sensitive understanding that evolves over time within a sexual relationship.
2007-02-17 12:06:33 · answer #3 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God Created men in Paradise, but God doesn't want to give to men the animal's instinct of the sexuality( that was way they was not free to eat from the apple tree.)
2007-02-17 13:12:10 · answer #4 · answered by mirna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u r miss understanding the whole story
its NOT about apples or fruits
Its all about destiny that God created
Adam's destiny (which was created by God) was to eat the apple from the tree that God forbidden him to eat from, so God can punish him by sending him to Earth to make humanity after Adam live on it (destiny of humanity)
i hope u got it NOW
2007-02-17 12:16:50 · answer #5 · answered by Kevin 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was NOT an apple; it was the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It does NOT refer soley to sexual knowledge.
2007-02-17 12:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nowhere in the Bible dies it say that the forbidden fruit was an apple----this is still yet another fairytale.
2007-02-17 12:06:49 · answer #7 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't wrong to eat apples in Adam and Eve's time. It was wrong to disobey God. Just as it's wrong to disobey God now.
2007-02-17 12:07:39 · answer #8 · answered by The Last Good Man 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋