Please give a specific verse in the bible where god reversed his position regarding apples.
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The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad is not known, and besides, it wasn't the fruit itself that was the problem...it was Adam and Eve's obedience that was the issue!
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It's more poetic junk in the Bible that you can really interpret to whatever you want it to be.  This bit seems to be more threats of hellfire for those outside the group.  Religion likes to use the carrot and stick approach to gaining and keeping converts.  This is one example of a stick.  On the carrot side of it, they'll talk about "God's love" and such (ignoring, of course, such contradictions as this).
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Wow I never knew that- are you sure about that? That is pretty awesome if that is true....God works in WONDROUS ways! And that verse is so good- I love it.
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Here are some other gems for you(posted these in another thread) \n\nProof of the 'love' of God in the bible\n\n"God" slaughtered innocent babies because of Pharaoh's stubbornness: "At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.” (Exod. 12:29)\n\n"God" had babies dashed to pieces and pregnant women ripped open: "The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open." (Hosea 13:16)\n\n"God" wanted children to be murdered as human sacrifices: "I let them become defiled through their gifts - the sacrifice of every firstborn - that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.” (Ezek. 20:26)\n\n"God" threatened to have innocent children be devoured by wild animals: “I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.” (Lev. 26:22)\n\n"God" threatened to have children cannibalized: "If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.” (Lev. 26:27-29)\n\n"God" ordered the genocide of women, children and babies: "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”” (1 Sam. 15:2-3)\n\n"God" aborted fetuses and murdered children in answer to the prophet Hosea's prayer: "Give them, O Lord – what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry .... Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring." (Hosea 9:14-16)\n\n"God" murdered a baby because of David's adultery: “Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan replied, "The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt, the son born to you will die." (2 Sam. 12:13-14)\n\n"God" ordered people to kill their brothers, friends and neighbors: “Then he said to them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.'" (Exod. 32:27
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This is a very good question indeed. Well, according to my source, which is the King James Version of the Holy Bible, (I choose this version because most people are familiar with it). There were man before Adam and Eve, the two of them were only the first of their own kind or tribe, as well as being the first servants of God. Genesis Chapter 1 versus 26-28 read: (*my own emphasis are added to the text)\n\n26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let THEM* have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.\n\n27 So God created man in his OWN* image, in the image of God created he him; MALE* and FEMALE* created he them.\n\n28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.\n\nSo here in the Bible tells of creation of man and woman. THIS man and woman were created simultaneously, not one then the other.  AND this man and woman or race of men and women were on the earth and had habitated the Earth as instructed by God, long before the creation of Adam and Eve. This is where in the Bible we find the story of the original people. The one's whom were given the dominion of the land as a gift of God. HOW do we know that these were not the same as Adam and Eve? That is told in verse 29 which reads:\n\n29 And God said,"See, I have given you EVERY* herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and EVERY* tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.\n\nTo these first inhabitants of the Earth, there was no forbidden fruit, as there was for Adam and Eve. The first people were given full dominion and full reign and EVERY tree as food.  As we see in this, King James Version of the Holy Bible, Adam and Eve came along later, long after the seventh day of creation. And also we see that they were a creation of the Lord God, who created them to be servants in the garden, because "there was no man to till the ground" (GEN 2:5). Genesis Chapter 2 tells of the creation of Adam:\n\n7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into him the breath of life; and the man became a living being.\n\nThen the Lord God gave Adam his rules:\n\n15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden *TO TEND AND KEEP IT*. \n\n16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;\n\n17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."\n\nThen Lord God noticed Adam was lonely:\n\n18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."\n\nThen Eve was created:\n\n21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.\n22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.\n\nAnd they were good until the "serpent" went and pointed out to them that they were the only ones in the garden who couldn't eat from every tree... and as they say, the rest was history.
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my bible verses are rusty but...there is a verse where god lays out a spread of pork and tells someone to eat it...and the dude is like "no"..and god is like "go ahead...that's what it's for"....and the dude was like.."will you pass me the ketchup"...\nI'm going to Hell...aren't I....
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In Zechariah 2:8 there's a passage which says, "Israel is the apple of my eye and whoever touches Israel I will deal with them.\n\n" Now, what's the apple of your eye? The "apple" is the very center of the eye; it's the pupil. It is the most sensitive \npart of the body. So, God says, "When you touch the \nmost sensitive part of my body, you are touching me \nand I'm going to deal with you." \n\nPeople ought to learn that from history; Egypt had to learn it; the \nAmalekites had to learn it. The Romans, Greeks, \nSyrians, Babylonians, the Ottoman Empire, the \nCrusaders, Spain, Germany and England and many more \nhad to learn it. \n\nIsrael is the apple of God's eye; not that \nthey're perfect because there are inequities in some \nof the things that Israel does and has done. I'm not \nsaying everything is right in Israel, but God has made \na covenant promise to the nation of Israel and God \nsays, "Whoever curses Israel, I will curse; whoever \nblesses Israel," He says, "I will bless." \n\n\nGenesis 12:1-3\n\nIn these three verses we find three of the most important promises ever given to a man. They were given to Abram or Abraham, as he would later be called. In this passage God promised Abraham three things:\n\na. That out of his loins would come the greatest nation on earth, a people so great in multitude that they could not be numbered by the stars or the sand of the sea: In Genesis 22:17, God said, "That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore." \n\nb. God promised Abraham a land--a land "flowing with milk and honey." It is the land the Bible refers to as the Land of Israel. Israel was the name God gave to Jacob, the son of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham. God repeated these promises both to Isaac, and to Jacob. And let me add; God has never rescinded His promise concerning the Land He gave to Israel--it has always been the Land of Israel and will always remain the Land of Israel.\n\nQUOTE: During the hearing of the British Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937, David Ben Gurion, chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish agency for Palestine, affirmed: "The Bible is our mandate. The mandate of the League is only recognition of this right and does not establish new things." The land has always belonged to Israel.
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And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. \nNoah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. \n Make thee an ark \nthou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. \nOf every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. \n And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.  And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. \n And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. \nAnd the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. \n And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:  All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. \n And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. \n And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. \nGen 8:5  And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. \nGen 8:6  And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: \nGen 8:7  And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. \nGen 8:8  Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; \nGen 8:9  But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. \nGen 8:10  And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; \nGen 8:11  And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. \nGen 8:12  And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.\n \nGen 8:13  And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. \n\nthey were in the ark a year noah was 600 when he went in and 601 when he came out.
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The Lost Chapter of Genesis\n \nAdam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling very lonely. \n\nSo God asked him, "What's wrong with you?" \n\nAdam said he didn't have anyone to talk to. \n\nGod said that He was going to make Adam a companion and that it would be a woman. \nHe said, "This pretty lady will gather food for you, she will cook for you, and when you discover clothing, she will wash it for you. \n"She will always agree with every decision you make and she will not nag you and will always be the first to admit she was wrong when you've had a disagreement. She will praise you!  "She will bear your children and never ask you to get up in the middle of the night to take care of them. \n"She will never have a headache and will freely give you love and passion whenever you need it." \n\nAdam asked God, "What will a woman like this cost?" \n\nGod replied, "An arm and a leg." \n\nSo Adam asked, "What can I get for a rib?" \n\nThe rest is history....
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Yes when I was younger. I was in bible class and we were discussing things that wasn't to do with religion and this number from Psalms came to me and I opened the bible and part of the verse said" Do not turn away from me" I think God was telling me to get back to his work
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ok, im not a a genius, but i do read the bible daily..everyone gets something different out if the verses they read, just so it can touch them..thats whats so wonderful about it..secondly, he was talking about the evil right before he floods the earth..god cannot look upon sin..thats why jesus came and died on the cross for us and he washed away our sins..god was talking about sodomy and stealing and lying and sex and all the sins he could not look upon, he was upset that he made man and they turned around and disrespected him the way they did..i would be too you know..thats just what i believe
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Actually the Bible only condemns certain foods for Jewish people, later in the New Testament it says that all things are cleansed by God's grace with the giving of thanks. Basically the premeal prayer
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Church fathers changed the Scriptural mandate for traditions of men. Nowadays folks blindly follow instead of obeying the Bible.
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It was the fruits and vegetables that he had grown. \n\nIt displeased the god of the bible because it was not a sacrifice of blood.
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Excellent quote to use.  And yes, I agree with it.  As the saying goes, "The apple rots from within."
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We had this read at our wedding. It's from Genisis, chapter 2\n\n 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." \n\n 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. \n      But for Adam [h] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [i] and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [j] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. \n\n 23 The man said, \n       "This is now bone of my bones \n       and flesh of my flesh; \n       she shall be called 'woman, [k] ' \n       for she was taken out of man." \n\n 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. \n\n \nI think verse 24 is what you're looking for.
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Matthew\n\nThose who bear bad fruit will be cut down and burned "with unquenchable fire." 3:10, 12