why is Adam's Apple called as such?
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Came from the koranic, biblical, belief. It wan't exactly apple as per the holy scriptures... it cam efrom there. People like to beleive that Adam really didn't swallow IT and IT is stuck in his throat.
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Most people think it was an apple, but that's a myth because apples didn't grow in England during the 17th century. It was actually a watermelon.
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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.
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Very good question!  Nowhere in the bible does it say that the tree of knowledge was an apple tree.  How rediculous does that sound?  The apple and the apple tree was simply an artists rendering of what s/he thought the event would have looked like.  The artwork was probably done sometime in the 8th century in Europe anyway.
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"hit the baseball"...real hard!! a baseball is often called an apple."chuck that apple in here".  one of the great things about baseball is its jargon, and colorfuull use of the engish language... not to mention its colorfull history and crazzy assortment of characters...an interesting subject even for those who dont know the game... see ken burns book or film.
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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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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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When God created Adam via whatever process He also defined the genetic make up of at least two other individuals.  A perfectly expressed genetic individual, and a perfectly recessed one as well. All other people fall somewhere in between these two extremes. I think that of course Jesus birth was the result of egg and sperm united, however his existence was defined by the creation of Adam.  And so was His exact opposite, who genetically speaking will be everything that Jesus wasn't.   You see humans have a fixed number of genes, Adam determined this.  However Adam being the first was not perfect genetically speaking.  Genes are made of four things that come together in two ways (cytosine-guanine, adenine-thymine).  Further a phenomenon called penatrance determines to what degree these genes will be expressed-recessed.  Most humans are a mixture of expressed and recessed genes.  Christ being perfect was either the perfect expression or recession. And was first and foremost the result of God's creation, and secondly the result of any physiologically based occurrence.  This justifies his title as God's son.  He was created by God when Adam was created.  He was born into this world by Mary.  Jesus is God, because God is perfect and asserts there shall be no other Gods before me.  Jesus was the first perfect extreme and therefore must be God.
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While I don't ever recall hearing this in church, it appears that it's actually a part of Mormon scripture:\n\n"And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel."\n(Doctrine & Covenants 107:54)\n\n\nWhat's interesting about this is that in the early church it was actually taught that Adam was *God*.  This doctrine has been abandoned and is no longer recognized by the church, however...
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Okay...so Adam was a disobient guy missing a rib, would couldn't control his wife, who went on to see his kids commit incest in order to procreate.   What's your point?\n\nOh, yes, and you forgot the fact that he was a liar claiming to be the first man when we all know he is a myth and that humankind is a product of evolution.
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Adam...who was the first man, was never considered by the Jewish or Christian faiths to be a prophet....( I never heard that one before,..... & I'm older than dirt )  He was created with smarts, but didn't always use them very well.....\n\n......when he fell from fellowship with his Creator....he blamed both God & Eve for his failure...\n\n"THIS WOMAN that YOU gave me, SHE gave me the fruit, and I did eat."\n\nkinda sounds just like us...huh, guys ?
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it's not explicitly mentioned in the bible, but it's believed to be the apple.  historians are now questioning that because there weren't apples were eden is claimed to exist. now the theory is pomegranates.
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Didn't some celeb name their kid Apple?
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In 1803 or 1804 a French woman named Evelyn Claudine de Saint-Évremond moved to New York. She is said to have been beautiful and quite respected among elite New York society. She was even supposed to marry John Hamilton, the son of famous lawyer and Revolutionary Alexander Hamilton. For some reason the marriage was called off, and Evelyn went into business. The women who worked for her, who were known for their elegance and beauty, were paid to entertain wealthy men. When New Yorkers shortened Evelyn's name to Eve (like Eve in the bible who ate the infamous apple), she started calling the women who worked for her "my irresistible apples." Soon, Eve's male customers started calling her employees "Eve's apples," and the phrase began to stick. A reference to New York women as apples was used publicly in an 1870 New York City "gentleman's directory," and again in a speech by lawyer William Jennings Bryan in 1892. Bryan called New York a "rotten apple," referring to the city's corruption. The phrase "big apple," or "the apple," was used again in a 1907 guidebook in a phrase "some may think the apple is losing some of its sap."\nJohn J. Fitz Gerald popularized the term Big Apple in the racing form that printed his column, and Barry Popik has no explanation as to the origin that the stable hands got this term from, so this is the story I’m gonna go with.
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"By the way, to name the animals, Adam must have been able to speak. He must have had a complex language right from the start. He did not even have to learn to speak as we have to. He was made as a mature human being.\n\nHow different it was for Adam. He awoke after his creation, a conscious being, fully formed, able to communicate and understand...\n  \nThe Bible, though, tells us that the first man Adam rebelled against God and sin came into the world. Ever since, the creation has been running down. Not only are there no perfect humans in the world now, but all humans have lots of mistakes on their genes (mutational defects or copying mistakes that slowly accumulate in the human race).\n\nThe first man had no mistakes when he was made - he was perfect.\n\nI think we can get a glimpse (looking through a glass dimly, so to speak) of what Adam was like by observing certain people today. I have met people who have photographic memories, others who are brilliant artists. I have read about people who can play musical instruments brilliantly from a very young age, such as Mozart. Others can do extremely complex mathematical computations in their head which even advanced computers take time to accomplish.\n\nIf we put all these talents, plus much more, into one person, I think we are getting close to what Adam was like. Almost makes you feel depressed, doesn't it?\n\nWe have to realize that Adam was so much more intelligent than we are. We are even told that we don't use much of our brain power. Imagine a human who could use all of his brain power. It was certainly no problem for Adam to name and remember animals on one day....."
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That lump on men's necks, the outer part of the voice box or larynx, is called an Adam's apple. Women have one too, but a man's Adam's apple is at a sharper angle and seen more easily. \n\nThe Adam's apple is named after Adam, who the Bible says was one of the first two people on the earth (along with Eve, his mate). The legend is that Adam ate some forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden and a piece of it got stuck in his throat. That throat bulge has been with men forever, supposedly to show that men can be weak and give in to temptation. \n\nThe medical explanation is that men have stronger larynx muscles, hence deeper voices, and the Adam's apple is where those muscles are stored.
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I think you are asking about what is called "ASCII ART"  To see a small collection of apples, click here: http://www.geocities.com/soho/7373/food.htm#apple