Could the forbidden fruit be the apple? Or is it just a myth?
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I cannot tell you what the Forbidden fruit exactly was, but nowhere in the Old Testament (which is where the story is from) is there any mention of it being an Apple.\n\nI think the idea of it being an apple came about due to paintings, usually from the renaissance, that depicted the scene and showed it as an apple. Why they chose to paint is as an apple, I don't know, but I am sure there are reasons, perhaps having to do with what fruit was availble in Europe. \n\nBut I could be wrong about the fruit in europe part :)\n\nOne last thing - I don't know what all the Christian denominations hold, but I think many religions view the forbidden fruit as a more spiritual entity then a physical one.
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flatlinzreborn is right. The first sin was disobeying God. Regardless of what that fruit was.
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Ooh, nice question.\n\nActually, I think you could make a strong case that they didn't have sex until after they left Eden. There's no mention of it, and I know they had no children when they left. \n\nIt was eating the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that made them realize they were naked; is it possible they were having sex prior to this, yet failing to notice this one detail? Which they then figured out from eating a piece of fruit? \n\nI could almost imagine them just not bothering to contemplate the fact that they had different genitals because the subject never "came up", as it were. But the whole Fig Leaf story just sounds absurd if they were copulating the whole time.\n\nAfter the Fall, of course, it wouldn't really matter if they sinned or not, having already been declared sinners.\n\nOn the other hand, if they weren't having sex prior to the Fall, and one assumes that God intended, or at least hoped, that they would not disobey Him and remain in Paradise forever, one has to wonder why He would give them genitals at all. I mean, seriously, what's the point? \n\nAgain, good question.
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WHAT was the original sin? “Sex,” many people will answer. They believe that the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden was a symbol of sexual relations and that Adam and Eve sinned by committing a sexual act.\n\nThe idea is not new. According to historian Elaine Pagels, “the claim that Adam and Eve’s sin was to engage in sexual intercourse” was “common among such [second-century] Christian teachers as Tatian the Syrian, who taught that the fruit of the tree of knowledge conveyed carnal knowledge.” Also, to Christendom’s Church (so-called Christians) Father Augustine of the fifth century C.E., sin had its beginnings in sexual desire on Adam’s part. In fact, Psychology Today said “Adam’s sin was carnal knowledge.”\n\nMany do not know that this interpretations flatly contradict the context of the Genesis account. The law in question is recorded at Genesis 2:16, 17: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.”\nWas that really a veiled reference to sex? Well, as recorded at Genesis 1:27, 28, God commanded the man and the woman to “be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.” How were Adam and Eve to obey that command without having sexual relations? Are we really to suppose that God gave them a command and then sentenced them to death for trying to obey it?\n\nBesides, the Genesis account shows that Adam and Eve sinned separately, not simultaneously. Chapter 3, verse 6, makes it clear that Eve was seduced to eat of the fruit first and that “afterward she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it.” So eating of the forbidden fruit would make an inept and farfetched symbol of sexual intercourse.\n\nWas it Knowledge:  What about the claim that the forbidden fruit was a symbol of all knowledge? Actually, both Adam and Eve had already taken in plenty of knowledge before they disobeyed the law at Genesis 2:16, 17. Their Creator, Jehovah himself, was directly involved in their education. For instance, he brought all animals and birds to the man for him to name them. (Genesis 2:19, 20) \nNo doubt Adam would have had to study each one carefully in order to give it an appropriate name. What an education in zoology! Eve, although created later, was also not ignorant. When questioned by the serpent, she showed that she had been educated in God’s law. She knew the difference between right and wrong, and she even knew the consequences of wrong actions.—Genesis 3:2, 3.\nInterpretation of original sin as either sex or knowledge is just that—human interpretation, nothing more. Its weakness is shown up by the question of the faithful man Joseph: “Do not interpretations belong to God?” (Genesis 40:8) The Bible is much easier to understand when we do not impose human ideas on it but, rather, let it interpret itself. \n\nWas It Disobedience?   By eating of that fruit, what were they doing? The New Catholic Encyclopedia timidly suggests: “It could have been, simply, an open defiance of God, an insolent refusal to obey Him.” Is that not what Genesis clearly says? Romans 5:19 confirms the point: “By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners.” (The New Jerusalem Bible) The original sin was an act of disobedience.\nA footnote in The New Jerusalem Bible puts it this way: “It [the knowledge of good and bad] is the power of deciding for himself what is good and what is evil and of acting accordingly, a claim to complete moral independence . . . The first sin was an attack on God’s sovereignty.” \n\nprerogative to set the standards for man as to what is approved or what is condemned. By refusing to obey God’s law, man was calling into question God’s very right to rule over him. Jehovah justly answered the challenge by allowing man to rule himself. Wouldn’t you agree that the results have been disastrous?
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No!!!! Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He is probably just like his brother..somewhere deep down inside... They are all the same...
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An apple, because it has a core.  You could show a half-eaten apple with the core showing.  Also since people generally associate apples with teaching and education, you could work with that image.
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Genesis 3:4-5  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.\n\nThis was before she ate the apple, therefore evil existed before.  \n\nThis brings about a question of what exactly is evil?  God told Eve not to eat the apple, and look above at what Satan tells her ... what was the lie?  She was already like a god - already knew good from evil - she knew she wasn't supposed to eat the apple, and she didn't die.  If Satan is the master of all lies, then what was the lie?  Tell me, and you'll know what evil is.
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It's not, because the story of Adam and Eve is just that...a story.  A story meant to teach that has become twisted and turned around to sickening points.  In fact, it has been twisted so much that in many early religions, women were not allowed to speak in church because of Eve's supposed wrong doings.
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The apple story is an exaggeration at best, a myth at worst.  I don't know too much about it, but my understanding is that Kepler had made three assertations concerning the motion of heavenly bodies and Newton found the mathematics that fit the results.  Everyone knew the moon hung in the sky, circling the Earth forever, but no one knew why.  On Earth (where people draw most of their experiences and intuition), it seemed that objects wouldn't accelerate on their own accord unless they were in contact with something.  Newton's insight was that objects can accelerate without contact, and the same force that pulls objects (like apples) towards the ground is the force that "holds" the moon in its orbit.
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Jonathan is the varietal name of an apple. Maybe it was fate.
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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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first of all, judaism rejects that the serpent was anything more than a serpent, so thats out. G-d of course said "or you shall die" - thats a generic biblical term for, "I'll be really mad if you do this" and is meant more as a scare tactic than to be taken literally. obviously adam and eve knew this and didn't take it literally either or they would not have eaten the apple with as little hesitation as they did.\n\nthe serpent did tell the partial truth - that they would be able to discern between good and evil. he appealed to their arrogant side by saying they would be like G-d if they ate it, which of course is not true since nobody could be like G-d and the tree didn't grant the power for that either. it wasn't the tree of G-dliness, it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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Temptation is the forbidden fruit.
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Simply there is no money in suggesting apples so their schools wouldn't teach that! :)\n\nGreat tip on the apples by the way!
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If Eve didn't eat the fruit, Adam would have done it eventually anyway. \n\nBut suppose neither of them did. Humanity would still live in Eden, and be free of self-consciousness, shame, and sin. In that case, the need for Christ on Earth would have never existed, thus eliminating the development of the Christian religion.
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The bible usually states it as the "forbidden fruit".  Different versions of the bible present it as an apple, but the Hebrew translation is simply "forbidden fruit".
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yes, according to the original text, it had a lot to do with sex. caine was eve's first born but was not adams son.\ncaine,says the bible, was the son of satan. I think the forbidden fruit actually means a forbidden act. adam/eve were put together for the purpose of procreation.