why did  adam and eve  eat the fruit?
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If Adam and Eve hadn't sinned we would deffinantly still be living in a paradise. He told them to fill the earth and subdue it.  Because they sinned thats why we have the sickness, diease, poverty and things today. God purpose has and will never change he still gives us hope that we will end up their again one day as long as we obey his word the bible. We all however have free will and are prone to making mistakes and sinning
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There are many theories on that one.  It might be that Adam and Eve were created along with the dinosaurs, and they could have lived in the Garden of Eden for millions if not billions of years before they took the fruit, with animals evolving around them.  Or, the entire process of creation took billions of years, and the 7 days is just a symbol of time, and not an actual space of time, in which case it took the earth several billion years to be created, along with everyone and everything on it.
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I don't think that we "blame" anyone. Eve ate the fruit first and Adam later. They both sinned and that sin has been passed on to all the human race.No sence blaming anyone lets just learn how to rectify the situation through Jesus Christ.
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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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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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well mythology speaks of adam as the first human on this planet. hence the answer is man. eve was supposed to be fashioned from adam's rib. so probably she came later!
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She was in the Garden by the tree when the serpent came and tempted her to eat from it. It was Eve's fault that she ate from the tree, even though it was the devil who tempted her. God had plainly told them to eat from any tree from the garden, except for the tree of knowledge.
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When Adam and Eve sinned, the purpose for God's paradise on earth was put into haitus.   Adam and Eve sinned by deliberately breaking God's law. So Jehovah put them out of the garden of Eden. Paradise was lost. God immediatly told Adam that there would be salvation for the future generations by saying "And I will put emnisty between you and the women, you will bruise him in the heel but he will bruise you in the head(Genesis 3:1-6, 23) Jehovah has not forgotten his purpose for this earth. He promises to make it into a paradise, where humans will live forever. How will he do this?—Psalm 37:29. Abraham displayed great faith when we was willing to sacrafice his son to God he told him  "Because of your seed, many nations will be blessed".  I know this sounds confusing but I will get to my point.  The profecy in Genesis 3:15 meant that Jesus would come to be, a promised seed that would balance out what Adam had done for mankind.  He would be bruised in the heel as Satan tried to kill him and he was literaly dead for three days yet Satan will be bruised in the head when he is finally destroyed after his second comming.  Abraham's promised seed (Jesus) would come from  his lineage.  Of course since they themselves (The chosen nation) disobeyed him and did not have faith in him, God removed his favor from them and delivered it to all the nations and those who displayed true faith in him (Us, all human kind)
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Because someone told Adam and Eve they were naked!\n\nBereshit - Genesis vs.\n24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.\n\n25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.\n\nthen >>>\nBereshit - Genesis\nChapter 3\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which HaShem G-d had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath G-d said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'\n\n2 And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;\n\n3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, G-d hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'\n\n4 And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;\n\n5 for G-d doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as G-d, knowing good and evil.'\n\n6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.\n\n7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.\n\n8 And they heard the voice of HaShem G-d walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of HaShem G-d amongst the trees of the garden.\n\n9 And HaShem G-d called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'\n\n10 And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'\n\n11 And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
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1. What happened with Adam and Eve was necessary, but it was a transgression.  If Adam and Eve never would have eaten the forbidden fruit, none of us would be here. They would still remain there in the Garden of Eden in the innocent state that they were in, not knowing good or evil, joy or sorrow, etc.\nAdam and Eve did repent of their transgression, but that really doesn't effect us. God holds each one of us responsible for our own sins, and not for what Adam or Eve did.\n\n2.  Newborns are born pure and innocent.  Until they grow and learn right from wrong they don't have the capacity to commit sin.  But once they are at the age where thy can tell right from wrong, they are accountable for their own sins.
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The tree did not give us free will, we already had it, otherwise Eve would not have been able to make the choice of disobeying and eating from it in the first place. We were given free will so that we could love God by choice. Love by force would not really be love. Every time I see this question, though, the tree is almost always called "The Tree of Knowledge" rather than by its actual name. This is an important oversight if you are to understand.\n\nIt's the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil - a specific kind of knowledge, not ALL knowledge (something I think we can agree we do not have). Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they knew nothing but good because that is how they were originally created. When Eve ate of the tree, she had already sinned by disobeying God. Then, on top of that she introduced a knowledge of evil into her mind (as did Adam). As humans we are not able to resist evil completely. This is why God told them not to eat of the tree, because He knew that if they did, they would be tempted for the rest of their lives by the evil thoughts, ideas, and so forth that would be introduced by eating the fruit. He knew that we would not be able to resist evil all the time. So, He told them not to eat, but created them with the ability to make the choice themselves.\n\nWhen Adam and Eve ate of the tree, their minds were corrupted. This was passed on to their children and all other descendents in their blood and by their influence. \n\nHad they chose not to eat, they would still have had the knowledge of all that was good. God talked and walked in the garden with them, wanting to be close to them. They chose to try to "know as much as God", which was nothing more than the deception of the devil.
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God created the Garden of Eden for Adam and Eve. He strictly told them not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. A serpant (the devil) came and decieved Eve into eating from the tree which God forbade her and Adam NOT to eat from, then Eve decieved Adam into doing the same.
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Adam and Eve in the garden..Eve picked the apple and sin became known..That is how work was invented..
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Fruit is attractive to some animals.  An animal eats the fruit and wanders off.  Later the undigestible seeds pass out of its digestive tract.  Voila; the seeds have been distributed away from the parent plant, so they have a better chance of survival (less competition for resources like light and nutrients) than they would if they were dropped off next to the parent.
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Satan told Eve, if you eat of this fruit you shall not surely die.\nWhen man starts playing God, God will show just how fragile we really are.\nYes we can take an egg, take all the life from it. Replace it with adult DNA. Place in a dish and watch it grow. Why kill it at 5 days old? Why not 6 days, or 6 weeks or 6 months? Why not just let it mature? Does it have a soul? Sure it does. It couldn't live without one. After all it is still a human. Created from human DNA.\n\nWithout human DNA it would be an animal without a soul. Or a freak of nature without a soul.
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I agree. I have always had an answer that combines both.  When they( Adam and Eve) were banished from The Garden of Eden (punishment for eating the apple) they were told they would be amongst the lowest  life forms. Why could He not have sent them back as a bacterium, as part of punishment, with his divine plan to go through years (even millions of years) of evolution to finally be back to human form. If he is God, evolution could be part of his Divine Plan.