Why is an Adam's Apple called such?
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Just below the epiglottis is the angular thyroid cartilage, composed of two vertical plates that join in the front of the neck. The junction of these plates causes the projection commonly known as the Adam's apple, so called because of the legend, referred to in Genesis 3:6, of the apple that lodged in Adam's throat.
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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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Adam was created by God on this earth. God took dust from the ground, formed him and breathed life into him so Adam was of the earth. Jesus was from heaven. He came down to earth and took the form of a man but because he is from above He exceeds and excells the one who is of the earth.
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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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Its generally contended that "Adam" was a symbol for the "adamantic" race, not an individual man. When taken literally, any story can lead you to obvious logical errors. But when taken as a story that conveys an idea or lesson, you realize that the nuts and bolts of the story don't matter as much as the point its trying to make.
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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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"No - Adam didn't. Neither did Eve."\n\nWhy? Because your belly-button (navel), or tummy-button as it's sometimes called, is a sign that you were once attached to your mother. You depended on that life-line - the umbilical cord - for your nourishment from her body as you developed inside her.\n\nBut our first parents, Adam and Eve, didn't develop that way. I believe that God would not have planted on them a false indication that they had developed in a mother's womb.\n\nWhen God created Adam and Eve in mature form, the day they were created they might have appeared to be, say, 30 years old. But God wouldn't want or need to create the appearance of a false history, any more than the mature trees created by God would have had growth rings initially. Those are things which would develop in their offspring as a result of processes later on.
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The Book of Enoch 31:4, purporting to be written by the antediluvian prophet Enoch, describes the tree of knowledge as follows:\n\n"It was like a species of the tamarind tree, bearing fruit which resembled grapes extremely fine; and its fragrance extended to a considerable distance. I exclaimed, How beautiful is this tree, and how delightful is its appearance!" \nIn western art, the fruit is most commonly depicted as an apple. One possible reason for this arises from a medieval pun. It was a source of humor to monks that the Latin term for evil (malus) was similar to the word of apple (malum). Thus it was often said that by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted malus (evil). There is, however, no textual or historical evidence by which to argue the literalness of this image.\n\nJewish thought contains additional options. Rabbi Meir says: "The fruit of (the Tree of Knowledge of Good-and-Evil) was a grape..."; Rabbi Nechemia says: "It was a fig..."; Rabbi Yehuda says: "It was wheat..." Talmud, Brachot 40a\n\nThe reason it is sometimes surmised to have been a fig is that they used fig leaves to cover themself after eating it, either because the leaves were nearby, or because God creates the cure before the illness, and the same tree that caused the problem is also used to remedy it. Another explanation lies within the "fruit" of the fig tree, the fig itself, which is not actually a fruit but rather a flower of sorts, serving as the tree's genitalia. It is said that when they bit into the fig, they saw that what appeared to be a fruit on the outside had concealed the reproductive organs within itself. Adam and Eve then looked at each other and felt ashamed that their reproductive organs were simply exposed, and covered them with the large leaves from the same tree. Some commentators hold that it might have been a grape, and that Eve actually made, and drank, wine.\n\nEthno-botanists have proposed the iboga plant (Tabernanthe iboga) as the Tree of Knowledge. The ground up bark contains a dissociative substance, ibogaine, which has been traditionally used in Bwiti religious ceremony in Central Africa. Other hallucinogens, in particular the Fly agaric mushroom, have also been proposed as the Tree.\n\nChristian sects like the Coptics of Jamaica, and other peoples of faith, especially the Rastafarians believe it to be the Marijuana plant.
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i've seen paintings of biblical scenes.... why does adam have nipples, and why do adam and eve both have belly buttons? if you believe the bible is word for word correct, (and i dont see how anyone can think that every single word in there is perfect) that alone proves that god must have a sense of humor.
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The area in a man's throat called the Adam's Apple is in fact a piece of cartilege. In technical terms, it's called the laryngeal prominence and forms part of the protective catrilege surrounding not only the thyroid gland but also your larynx, or voice box. Women, too, have this cartilege structure, but it is less prominent in their throats. This is because the angles at which the two sides of the cartilege meet is sharper in men than in women.\n\nThe wikipedia article below will give you more detail, including why we refer to it as an Adam's Apple.\n\nGood luck with your studies!
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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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Popularly, the fruit has been identified as an apple (perhaps as a Latin pun of 'malus' sounding like 'evil' and 'apple'), although the Bible does not identify the fruit as an apple. Judaism teaches that the fruit may have been either grape, fig, wheat, or citron.\n\nIn the philosophical novel Ishmael, the story of eating the forbidden fruit is described as a metaphor for the loss of quality of life caused by the change from hunter-gatherer culture to an agriculture-based society.\n\nThe term "forbidden fruit" is a popular metaphor that describes any object of desire whose appeal is a direct result of the knowledge that it cannot or should not be obtained. The phrase comes from the Bible, where it is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. According to the narrative, as a result of eating this fruit, Adam and Eve lost their innocence, began to know good and evil, and were exiled from the garden where they were forced to adopt agriculture for a living. The concept of "knowing" good and evil can be best understood as being emotionally entangled with the struggle of determing the difference.
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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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Well, I think because this phenomena is against : \n\nReligions .\n\nHuman nature .\n\nIt is also one of diseases transmission .\n\nIt's disgusting...\n\nGod Punishment... because he created Eve for Adam, not for another Eve...and Adam for Eve not for another man...
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A fun question, but there is no way to know the answer, nor does the answer ultimately matter.  \n\nNevertheless, I'll admit it would be a fun after-dinner conversation starter. <grin>  \n\nPerhaps the better question, if you assume that they DID have belly buttons, is this -- would Adam have collected lint in his belly button prior to taking a bite from the apple or would he only have collected lint after taking the bite?
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Wow, your question was confusing, I had to re-read it a few times. But, it's not a dumb question and I dont think it was a mean spirited question. Adam was the first man, fashioned from the dust and the breath of God in the image of God. Eve was the first woman made of Adams rib and the breath of God. They had children, namely 3 sons, Cain, Able, and Seth. So if you keep reading the bible from there, there are geneologies and you can see who begat whom on down the line. Long after Adam and many of his descendants had died, from the lineage of King David, a woman named Mary was bethrothed to a man named Joseph. Mary was indeed a virgin as she was not yet married. The Angel of the Lord came to her and told her that she was pregnant with our Savior, the Son of God.  What a daunting message, but God prepared for her just the right fiance, who loved her enough that at this seemingly crazy tale that he decided to preserve her life, her honor and put her away in secret. Well, the Angel of the Lord came to Joseph too, and told him that it is true, the baby is God's and your fiance's still a virgin (to paraphrase) If you read the Bible you'll get a more detailed version of this piece of History. The Baby Jesus grew to be a Man, all His life Jesus was close to God, His Father and prayed to him, because God is 3 persons, The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. So, although Jesus is very much God, He is the Son of the Father. So, that is why Jesus is completely perfect and had no sin, and was able to sacrifice himself for us. At that moment when Jesus asked the Father "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" He was extending that same grace to us too, even now. Jesus did not escape crucifixion, he did not escape death. He conquered death, he conquered the old law of the old testament that said there must be a sacrifice, a blood atonement for all sins. We were all born into sin because of Adam and Eve chosing to follow thier flesh and give in to temptation. We were permanantly severed from God, and still are if we dont believe that Jesus is God made flesh, and is God's Son. We must believe that and believe that Jesus did die that day on the cross, that he laid in a tomb dead, but was resurrected on the 3rd Day and that he ascended into heaven very much alive and there he sits at the right hand of the father, leaving The Holy Spirit ever interceding for us. That is the truth and the only way to be allowed into God's presence upon our death here on Earth. There is no blaspemy in that. Jesus was brought to trial for that, because he in no uncertain terms claimed his rightful title as The Son of God. He was found faultless by Pilate, however, the crowd shouted "Crucify Him" and took a foul murderer to be released and the mob sentanced thier own King thier own Savior to die. But, it was what had to be done. Jesus said before his crucifixion, "No one takes my life, I willingly lay it down".
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that's how you say "apple" in my native language, why?