Idea Adam And Eve Ate An Apple
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Not an actual ciitrus fruit. From the tree that produces the fruit of knowledge of good & evil.
I dont fully understand about what it's saying introduction paragraph, regarding Jonah and the fish, " that's not biblical".
Jonah 1 v 17, a great fish (whale). |
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---Lawrence on 10/5/09 |
The apple was they key to our very existance. When Eve first tasted the apple and told Adam to eat it they were to become like God. In turn they were able to "as God" give life using there private parts that they now understood they were naked. This is why they covered themselves and felt unconfortable and exposed. This is also why God made the punishment upon Eve to feel extreme pain while giving birth to a child. This is when God commanded Adam and Eve to leave the Garden and populate the world. And every person brought into this world through them would be guilty of original sin. |
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---John on 9/23/09 |
I guess it's from people who pass on stories that they have heard but not read. Somewhere in the dim and distant past someone retold the bible story and, without realising that it was important, changed the word fruit to apple. That word has stuck, but only with people who don't read the bible. Many are quite shocked when they are told what the bible actually says just as some are surprised when they hear that phrases in common use come from the bible e.g. 'the apple of his eye'.Deut. 32:10 & Zech. 2:8. |
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---Xanthi on 9/21/08 |
That Idea came from Song of Solomon and it's
references to apples, But it would be more likely that it would have been a fig tree since God gives men over to their desires and they covered themselves with what they worshiped more than God. Many people cover themselves with what they believe is truth
and deny the covering of the blood. |
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---exzucuh on 6/16/07 |
What matters is that Adam and Eve disobeyed God. It does not matter if the fruit in question was an apple or some exotic magical creation found only in the Garded of Eden. They disobeyed God and for that, sin entered the world. |
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---lorra8574 on 6/16/07 |
While reading this post it is strange that the reason for Gods IRE was because A&E gave into temptation& DISOBEYED GODS WORD.Need we say more apples & pears have nothing to really do with the transgresion.It was their Pride To be like GOD same as satan. |
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---Emcee on 6/16/07 |
As with so many things religious.... tradition. It never ceases to amaze me how many people will take the traditions of a church over the authority of God's Word. |
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---Bruce5656 on 6/15/07 |
--Bob6749: So, your view is FIGurative, not literal? I know, bad joke. Forgive me. I couldn't resist. :-) |
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---Leon on 8/11/05 |
I've often heard the fruit was a fig, maybe because of the leaves used by Adam & Eve, maybe because of the way figs are used to portray spiritual truth's on some important scriptural subjects.
I'll take the fig leaves view! |
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---bob6749_[Elishama] on 8/5/05 |
Long ago, "apple" was frequently used as a synonym for "fruit" (and not just in English). When you said "apple" you might mean a literal apple, or you might mean just an unspecified fruit. That carries over today in the words pine-apple, horse-apple, earth-apple, and other such words in various languages. People are just misunderstanding what they're really saying. |
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---Billy on 7/14/05 |
Because apples are the most common fruit in Northern Europe, artists used apples as the depiction of the fruit.
Some say that because A&E covered themselves with figleaves, the fruit should be symbolized by figs.
DOES IT MATTER???????
There are more important things. |
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---Jack on 7/14/05 |
Willa8985: Are you suggesting there's a correlation between Gen. 3:6 and S.O.S. 2:3? |
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---Leon on 6/24/05 |
Song of Solomon 2 v 3 |
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---willa8985 on 6/24/05 |
Phila, is your blog directed to any other particular blog? |
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---NVBarbara on 6/23/05 |
I agree. Regardless of what the fruit was the bottomline is A&E willfully sinned (disobeyed God). The Bible does say they "literally" ate some kind of fruit. I tend to be very careful not to dismiss anything contained in the Bible as immaterial if God says it matters.
Sorry Fronie. I didn't mean to mislead you. I was just referencing a previous blog. Of course the Biblical account of Jonah...is real & relevant to our understanding of God's word. |
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---Leon on 6/21/05 |
A child's heart/faith is needed to appreciate the Bible's stories/events. When you analyze the Holy Writ using adult reasoning, God is reduced to man's level. An Infinite God of the Impossible does not explain everything (or He would cease being Infinite). The Divine Author has reasons that reason will never understand. Faith works through Love, not science. |
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---phila4543 on 6/21/05 |
Bruce, your blog brings up a pet peeve of mine concerning the Ark. Even children are taught a song about Noah bringing in the animals 'Two by Two' in many Sunday schools. Many adults don't bother to read how many of each animal was onboard the Ark!
I'm not telling, any of you who don't know need to read your bible! |
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---NVBarbara on 6/21/05 |
My educated guess would be the lump in mens throats is called, "Adam's apple"; or finding a worm in the apple you just bit into could cause death; else the fairy tale of sleeping beauty who ate the witches poison apple and fell asleep, when the prince kissed her she woke up. Anyhow, the forbidden fruit was the red sour grape. "The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge." Jeremiah 31:29-34; Ezekiel 18:1-4. |
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---Eloy on 6/21/05 |
Are we in danger of thinking that every word of the Bible has to be literally factual in our terms? Does it matter if they ate an actual fruit, or just sought and found out more knowledge than God? wanted them to have? |
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---Alan_of_U.K. on 6/21/05 |
The apple is only a representation of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Eating from the tree was the sin...not the kind of fruit it bore. And where did anyone get the idea that Jonah and the fish 'isn't bibical'. It's even mentioned by Jesus!!!!!!!!!!! |
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---Fronie on 6/20/05 |
simple the old artists from the 15th and 16th century painted the tree of knowledge of good and evils fruit looking like apples they were big and red.
they looked like big apples so henceforth adam and eve ate apples. |
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---willow on 6/20/05 |
No an Apple is NOT biblical. The bible says they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. No apple involved that we know of. |
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---NVBarbara on 6/20/05 |
I don't know to me I could be wrong but it would make sense if it were an aprociot tree. Because it gives off a perfum, unlike the apple tree. I could be wrong the bible doesn't say what fruit it was. |
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---Rebecca_D on 6/20/05 |
Leon; Some believe it was Pomegranate ,because of the "seeds". The actual fruit is immaterial, it was the act of disobedience that caused the problem! |
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