2007-08-14 15:56:37 · 9 answers · asked by Pisces 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
apple of idun?
2007-08-14 15:57:05 · update #1
"In esoteric cults and white magic the apple is the femine symbol par excellence, associated with Venus. If you cut an apple vertically into two exact halves you can in fact see some resemblance to the female genital system. Alternatively, if you cut it in half horizontally, you could, like the Pythagoreans, see it as a perfect five-pointed star, the pentagram, a key to the occult sciences, in that it reveals the secret of the knowledge of good and evil (and here the Eve legend surfaces again)." History of Food, Maguellone Toussaint-Samat
2007-08-14 16:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by dreamed1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The forbidden tree was never classed as 'bad'.
All the trees in the garden of Eden were good.
It was really a matter of obedience.
Adam and Eve were told not not to touch the tree. It could just as easily have been a hot stove.
But the bible states it was a tree.
the fruit is not specified.
They disobeyed and the punishment was to [eventually] die.
It was not part of God's original plan for anyone to die.
So the sacrifice that jesus made by his death was to buy back for us the right to again live without death
(Revelation 21:4) And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.
2007-08-15 00:05:24 · answer #2 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If I remember my Latin correctly the whole idea of the "apple" being the "forbidden fruit" is a mistranslation from the Latin Vulgate (Bible) into English. In Latin "malus" means "bad" while "malum" mean "apple". The person who translated the Latin just used the wrong word since the two have similar spellings.
Hope this helps.
John
2007-08-14 23:17:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Flemish Artist who's name escapes me painted a widely-copied depiction of the Trees in the 1700s. The idea that it was "apple" tree came from that. It, of course, has no Biblical Basis.
2007-08-14 23:04:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Madison Avenue marketing campaigns.
Every Georgian knows it was a peach.
2007-08-14 23:05:06 · answer #5 · answered by TEK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who wrote it didn't like apples?
2007-08-14 23:01:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lionheart ® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it was an 'apple' tree that Adam & Eve took a bite from how much clearer can it get?
2007-08-14 23:05:51 · answer #7 · answered by meister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it was the apple. I think it was the fig. They clothed themselves with fig leaves.
2007-08-14 23:05:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard it was a fruit called a quince.
2007-08-14 23:02:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋