most of the writers interpret the fruit bearing tree in the middle of the garden of eve an apple tree... and it is a common knowledge to us what is the story behind it. I am just wondering what an apple really symbolizes? Is it sin or wisdom? or is it freedom?
2007-07-15 19:41:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It symbolizes good health and the quest for favoritism.
2007-07-15 19:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the apple is a symbol of the knowledge of good and evil. So after eating the fruit Adam and Eve could make choices. Before they ate the fruit they were just like they were before they came to earth, innocent, incapable of sin. Because they were now capable of sinning they couldn't be in the presence of God all the time anymore and that is why they were cast out of the garden.
2007-07-16 02:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Laura S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An apple is the universal symbol for wisdom. Avalon was covered in apple trees, sacred to the goddess. They're also too healthy not to have an apple a day. No pun intended here. Ha.
2007-07-16 02:46:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apple (Earth elements)
Prior to taking earths elements Adam and Eve were beings of light. An apple as an example used to describe the beings sent to earth first taking on human form, by taking earths elements into them. Becoming physical beings! The knowledge of the human form!
2007-07-16 03:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, an apple has been used to highlight education. Have you not seen picture of an apple and a ruler on a teacher's desk.
It symbolizes the teacher and the classroom setting.
2007-07-16 02:47:02 · answer #5 · answered by Richard S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wisdom, but the kind that leads everyone to bash each other on this site and everyone else; which leads to bondage for millions, which is the opposite of freedom, which is sin. There's no peace in the kind of wisdom we found
2007-07-16 02:48:41 · answer #6 · answered by Numen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is supposed to be wisdom but because eve tempted adam with it, the word became synonymous with temptation/sin...
here's wikipedia's elaborate discussion regarding the symbolism of an apple:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(symbolism)
2007-07-16 03:00:24 · answer #7 · answered by kahlan nynaeve® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not wisdom or sin - but knowledge - wisdom and sin are judgements - what we do with our knowledge determines whether we are wise or sinful.
Knowledge offers choices -
2007-07-16 02:45:51 · answer #8 · answered by jdancy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think an apple represents a way to calm a growling stomach. *goes to eat an apple*
2007-07-16 02:45:39 · answer #9 · answered by Jon P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An apple is not mentioned anywhere. IT SAYS FRUIT. GET IT. NOT APPLE. FRUIT, FRUIT, FRUIT, FRUIT.
Apple is from someones imagination.
2007-07-16 02:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by shovelead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋