Was the Forbidden Fruit Eve ate REALLY an apple?

Question

For years I've heard people refer to the Forbidden Fruit Eve ate as an "apple."

Where is it written that the Forbidden Fruit was actually an apple? And if it wasn't an apple, why do people assume that the Forbidden Fruit was an apple?

Answer 1

People do not know what kind of forbidden fruit it was because the Bible does not say. Tradition has said it was an apple. That is why some people believe that is where we got the word Adam's apple. Adam ate an apple and it got caught in his throat, which is unbiblical.

Answer 2

The Forbidden Fruit was not identified as an apple in the Bible. Because some artist felt that apples could be that fruit and put it into his painting and the rest was history.

Answer 3

Read the story again...carefully. The forbidden fruit was the fruit of Knowlege. For if we ate of the fruit of knowlege, we could become as Gods. Apples just looked nice in paintings and were associated with many Pagan beliefs.

Answer 4

I have never seen the word "apple" in any translation. Apples are not a fruit that grows in the middle east, so it is unlikely that a biblical story would mention them.

I suspect the reason we in the west have associated the word "apple" with the garden of Eden is that we have confounded that story with another story. In Norse mythology, the world is surrounded by a vine-like "tree of life" . Every day, a goddess named Edun (how about that name?) carries a basket of apples from the tree of life and distributes them among the gods, each of whom must eat one daily in order to maintain his/her immortality ("if you eat, you will be like gods", says the serpent in the bible story).

I used to think the parallels in the two stories were uncanny, until I read that as ancient as the Norse myths are, they were not written down until after Christian missionaries came to the country and recorded them. So I suspect the form of the Norse story that has come down to us has been influenced by the Bible story. But similarly, the way we tell the Bible story might have become influenced by the Norse story, and hence we all grew up hearing about apples.

Answer 5

It has always been interpreted as an "apple" but, the bible refers to it as "fruit"......."fruit from the tree of knowledge". It could have very well been an orange as much as an apple. Man's translation has given us the image of Eve eating an apple. But the Bible does not actually makes the distinction.

Answer 6

Maybe, and maybe not. No one knows. People just say that because it fits the clues the bible holds. The only fruit that is big enough to take a bite out of (eg, grapes) and that you do not need to wash and won't make a mess is an apple or pear. Perhaps this sort of fruit doesn't exist anymore because the tree of life is opposite to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and what fruit gives you life? It obviously doesn't exist anymore. If that's true than the tree of the knowledge of good and evil wouldn't exist, because what sort of fruit gives you knowledge of good and evil. For more info email me at scientist_danny_fusion@ yahoo.com. I'll have all your questions answered. God bless you!

Answer 7

no my religous teache rsaid it was like a super fruit like not a normal apple it was more or like its own fruit

Answer 8

The Apple is Symbolic.

Answer 9

Many translation of the bible say its an apple. Depends on the translation. Honestly though does it really matter? Would it change christianity that much if it was really a tangerine or a watermelon? It wouldn't change my faith much.

Answer 10

no where.
the apple was introduced as the fruit when christians met wiccans. they use them in rituals because apples have a natural pentagram in it. it was to teach generations that they are evil because they aren't christians.