an apple a day keeps the Dr. away when it was the culprit in our downfall? (I really do know what the culprit was besides the apple)
2007-06-21 10:53:54 · 10 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Constipation is a terrible thing. lol
2007-06-21 10:57:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Apple in the morning - Doctor's warning
Roast apple at night - starves the doctor outright
Eat an apple going to bed - knock the doctor on the head
Three each day, seven days a week - ruddy apple, ruddy cheek
Origins and history of the nursery rhyme
The simple history or meaning behind the words of this nursery rhyme lyrics is one to encourage the child or even baby of the family to eat healthily! Although perhaps 'Doctor' should be replaced with 'Dentist' in this modern day and age
2007-06-21 10:58:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The expression - an apple a day keeps the doctor away - is meant to get one point across: that apples are nutritious. This snappy phrase helps us remember that apples are nutritious.
As for the Bible, I've looked up the relevant passages in four different versions (Douay-Rheims, RSV-CE, NAB, and KJV) and none of them actually say "apple". It simply says forbidden "fruit". There is nothing that indicates that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was an apple tree.
Popular culture, aided artists' renderings of said event have used an apple tree as a stand-in for Forbidden Fruit Tree.
It's not necessarily important what kind of physical fruit this tree grew. "Fruit" as it is used in the context of Adam and Eve is a metaphore for spiritual fruit. That is why the Bible refers to this tree as the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.
2007-06-22 04:36:10 · answer #3 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mankind's downfall was because Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, not an apple. It is not defined in the Bible that it was an apple.
2007-06-21 11:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by judirose2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The culprit was the serpent/Satan. An apple a day refers to the recommendation that we have several servings of fruit a day to be healthy.
2007-06-21 10:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by LadyG 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The forbidden fruit was never defined in the bible.. But portrayed as an apple in the teaching only to make a visual of the scripture as defined by many artiest...
2007-06-21 10:58:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well first of all there's no mention of a "apple" in the Adam/Eve story in Genesis. But in fact they were allowed fruits, but just not the fruit of that one tree. (Who knows what the fruit was)
Secondly the phrase has legitimate medical reason, namely that apples contain alot of fiber that allows the digestive system to work more effeciently.
2007-06-21 11:16:48 · answer #7 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "forbidden fruit" in the Garden of Eden was not an apple.
The forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil are those acts we do once we know evil.
2007-06-21 11:04:54 · answer #8 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure we suffer from a downfall.
One of the perfect things about life,
is that it's not perfect.
2007-06-21 11:01:38 · answer #9 · answered by kyle.keyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dunno... i hope you're cute tho otherwise i'd prolly make fun of you. :P
2007-06-21 10:57:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋