Was it a sin to eat the fruit?

Question

Or did they learn sin from eating the fruit?

((Adam and Eve in Eden))

Answer 1

It was a sin. They were told not to and they disobeyed.

Answer 2

Sin to eat the fruit - God told Adam and Eve they could eat anything in the garden of Eden but the fruit from this tree - so the original sin was eating the fruit from the forbidden tree!@~

Answer 3

I have always had a problem with this one.

Here it goes. Ok, say they are told not to eat from the fruit off the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Then serpent comes along and tells Eve to eat the fruit. She does. But here's the thing, people say she sinned because she disobeyed god. But how could she know that it was a sin and that it was wrong to disobey if she didn't have prior knowledge of what she was doing was bad. She only gained that knowledge after she ate the fruit. So, how can you punish somebody if they honestly didn't know before had that what they were doing was going to wrong. They didn't know it was bad to obey god because they had no knowledge of what was bad. It's a stupid story.

Answer 4

First of all, it was not fruit like an apple or a pear. Fruit is also the result of something. When I was a kid there was a radio program that had as part of it's opening sentenses, " Crime bears bitter fruit." Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the "knowledge of good and evil". They suffered the consequences of believing that they could decide what was good and what was evil.

First, to answer your question, it was a sin for them because God commanded them not to do it and they did it anyway. Second, it brought sin into the world because of what the fruit is. The fruit of the "knowledge of good and evil" is the negative consequences that come from believing the idea that we can tell by ourselves what is good and what is evil and that we don't have to obey Gods commandments!

God loved Adam and Eve and his commandment was for their protection; If you eat of this fruit you will surely die! Satan lied to Eve; told her that God lied to her and that she wouldn't die if she ate the fruit, told her God didn't love her, was jealous of her, and if she ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that she would be like God.

Satan is still telling the same lies and still deceiving many people. Many people believe that; the Bible is not true (God lied to us), we don't have to obey God's commandment's ( that God doesn't love us and that the commandments aren't for our protection), and that God gave us "free will" so that we can decide for ourselves what is good or evil instead of obeying God's teaching ( that we can be like God).

Answer 5

God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit from one particular tree only. And when they disobeyed God by eating the fruit they sinned.

Answer 6

They Disobeyed God...

and Knowing that they were not to eat the Fruit They bit and Eve Blamed the serpant and Adam Blamed God when he said the woman that YOU gave me...

So ever since then, there have been certain religions that are still deceived by the serpant thinking they will become "as gods"
...you know who you are. Stop being deceived.

Answer 7

Sin is the transgression of God's law. He had told them not to eat of the fruit, they did anyway so by eating the fruit, they sinned.

Answer 8

Genesis 3:1-3

Answer 9

It's an analogy.

No 'fruit', awareness of the illusion of 'good' and 'evil'. There never was a 'Dark Side' until we started believing that there was. It was just an excuse for blaming results that we didn't find desirable on something/someone else.

The 'cure' will be returning to the truth that we, ourselves, are responsible for everything that 'happens'to us, not some outside agency, good or bad. That is how we return to a state of 'grace'.

The illusion is that we never actually left that state, we just imagined that we did.

Answer 10

It was a transgression.

And by eating the fruit, they then knew sin and pain and sadness, therefore they also knew good and pleasure and happiness.

You can't know something without knowing the opposite as well.

Answer 11

It was a sin to disobey God. They sinned when they ate the fruit, but fruit-eating wasn't a sin, disobedience was.