2007-11-24 11:14:01 · 30 answers · asked by chellebell93 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Where does it say an apple.
2007-11-24 11:17:43 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just who said it is an apple? The fruit they ate only lived on one special tree in the Garden of Eden God prepared for Adam and Eve. It was not outside the garden. It was not an apple as we know apples.
People today receive the result of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, whatever it was. We naturally have a sense of good and evil as the result of their eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.
2007-11-24 11:19:25 · answer #2 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fruit in question was the knowledge of... not an actual fruit. It is a metaphor. However there is a fruit that grew in that region called "pyrus cydonia" or golden apple. Perhaps thats where this whole 'apple' thing came from. SaintBirgitta.com made an interesting (a little far off) connection between Cydonia and the apple. You can find it on youtube. And the other responses here are correct. Father gave them a choice rather than create robots. If you made a tape of you saying "I love you, you're beautiful" and played it over and over would you find that appealing? God made us to find the love that He loves us with and return it in kind. We are referred to as his children. He and the heavenly host made us see Genesis 1
2007-11-24 11:28:38 · answer #3 · answered by metalsoft@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't an apple, it was just a piece of fruit that was hanging off of a certain tree.
The sin itself wasn't the act of eating the fruit, the sin was a sin of disbelief. God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit or they would die. The reason they ate the fruit was NOT because they wanted to be knowledgeable like God, but because they didn't BELIEVE that they would die like God said they would. Sure, she may have decided that God was hiding information from her and she wanted to know what it was, but the fruit -- or even the name of the tree -- is a far smaller issue than the main issue of the story. The main issue is she didn't believe God, and that's ultimately what led her to do what she did.
This is why the ONLY requirement to receive God's mercy and Salvation is to BELIEVE, believe that Jesus is who He says He is, what God says about Him, and believe that God will do as He says He will do.
2007-11-24 11:27:58 · answer #4 · answered by Rebecca 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you read in Genesis chapter 3. There is nowhere in the bible that says the forbidden fruit was an apple. It just says do not eat fruit from the tree in middle of the garden.
2007-11-24 11:21:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem in the Garden of Eden was not an Apple in a tree but the Pair on the ground.
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2007-11-24 11:28:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It just says fruit, in the medieval days Michel Angelo Paited Eve givin Adam an apple so thats where that idea comes from.
2007-11-24 11:19:13 · answer #7 · answered by Redneck gall from Oregon 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's often depicted as an apple, but the text of Genesis doesn't specify what the fruit looked like.
2007-11-24 11:20:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't, in Latin, Evil and Apple were the same word, so an apple was wrongly associated with it. If it was a literal fruit, it probably was a fig because figs are quite common in Mesopotamia, and apples don't exist there.
2007-11-24 11:21:13 · answer #9 · answered by ? and ?: The Light of the World 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible never says that it was an apple. It was just a fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God did not want us to know evil.
2007-11-24 11:21:34 · answer #10 · answered by man_of_faith 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Apple trees need colder weather to fruit properly.
The story originated in a rather warm climate.
Some people think it was a pomegranate. Which has all sorts of fertility and aphrodisiac associations....
You do the maths.
2007-11-24 11:24:33 · answer #11 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋