Did Eve really eat an Apple? or is the Apple just used as a Symbol?
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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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The Hebrew word "tap·pu´ach" which is usually translated to English as translated “apple,” appears a number of times in the Bible but it does not appear in the account of Adam, Eve, and the tree of good and bad.   The idea of an apple probably came from Medieval and Renaissance artists who painted apples in Garden of Eden scenes.  Some of these artists include Peter Paul Ruben and German court painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.  John Milton was probably the first person to put the idea into writing in Paradise Lost.  \n\nSo, what was the fruit.  It does not say in the Bible.  God probably didn't feel this detail was important when he inspired Moses to write down the account.
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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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Yes, but i'm surprised by the anger and angst of some of your answersers. The Devil told the very first lie to Eve when he told her she wouldn't die from eating the fruit. \nJesus was just telling Pharisees and hypocrites that they copy the Devil and thus make him their father.
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Lucifer did not cause Eve to eat the fruit.  She chose to eat the fruit herself.  Satan lied to Eve and misquoted what God had told Adam and Eve about eating the fruit.  She just blamed it on the serpent (Satan).  Then Adam blamed Eve (the woman Thou gavest me Lord).  Not one took credit for the action that they had just done.  Many scholars believe that Adam loved Eve so much he ate of the fruit so that he wouldn't be without her.  \n\nIf you read the passages in context, you will see that Satan misquoted what God had told Adam and Eve about the fruit.
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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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Definately Adam!  At least when Eve ate the fruit of the forbidden tree she had a valid reason.  Satan had disquised himself as a serpent and TRICKED her.  However, Adam ate it because his wife said so?! Typical!!
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Yes she was, regardless what so called enlightened people say about Lilith. Eve means, "Mother of all living." All living what? After her kind, Humans, of course. Genesis means "Beginning" it shows the beginning of humans, first sin, first murder and so forth. Don't be led astray by "Gnostic" ideas. Pray for God's guidance.
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The fable of Adam and Eve and the apple comes from Pandora's Box.  The virgin birth comes from Zeus' amorous adventures such as impregnating someone when he turned himself into a shower of gold.  Those are just a couple of them.  Read some of the myths and you will start to recognize them.
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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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I would say yes.  According to Genisis, he spoke to Eve in the form aof a serpent.  So maybe not a lisp exactly but more of a hhhiiiiisssssssssssp.
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Atalanta. she wasnt actaully a god or goddess, but she was in the mythology for being the fastest runner. her dad said that anyman who could catch her/beat her in a race could marry her [she was very pretty]. no one ever even had a chance to beat her w/o cheating, so one guy that i forgot his name got 3 golden apples that were enchanted/ legendary to attract people's attention. they started the race, and he threw one apple to the side, she went to get it, then caught up, he threw another farther away, she went to get it, caught up again, he chucked another, she went to get it, came back, caught up, but by then the dude had won. I dont know how this is relevent to your question, but i just thought i'd let you know.
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Thanks to Eve, humanity got the opportunity to leave its childhood home, to explore and discover and learn and invent, to do the things that no other species can do.  Like any good mother, Eve made sure that we grew up.  \n\nOf course she's just a myth; but if she were real, we would all be forever in her debt.
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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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First of all, we don't know what fruit it was.  The Bible never says an apple.  Second of all, if Adam and Eve hadn't eaten of the forbidden fruit they would have never become mortal and had children.  We would not even be here today, only Adam and Eve would still be livingin the Garden of Eden.  So Eve's partaking of the forbidden fruit, from the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the most wonderful thing that could have ever taken place.  Without Eve's actions you wouldn't be sitting in front of a computer terminal asking this question.
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I believe the fig tree represents the Pharisees, or possibly the temple.\n\nIf you read the context around it, this happened soon before Jesus' crucifixion.  He knew His time was at hand.  He went to the temple the day before and drove out the moneychangers.  (Matthew 21:12)  Then in verses 13-17:\n\nThen the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”\nAnd Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read,\n ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants\n You have perfected praise’?”\nThen He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.\n\nThe Chief priests and Scribes should have recognized Him.  They should have worshipped Him.  They should have been preparing for Him and leading others to Him.  Instead they denied Him and tried to have Him killed.\n\nVerses 18-19\n\nNow in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away.\n\nIf you look at Mark's account, he points out that it wasn't the time for figs:\n\nNow the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.”\nAnd His disciples heard it.  Mark 11:12-14\n\nWe are to hunger and thirst for righteousness.  The Old Law couldn't provide righteousness for us, but it was the tree through which Righteousness was to come.  (In this sense, it was not the season for figs - Christianity had not officially come yet.)  But Israel was happy being a fruitless tree, no longer looking for a Messiah.  The Pharisees were turning people away from God rather than to Him.  Christ fulfilled the law of Moses.  No fruit grew from it again.  Jesus is the vine through Whom we are now sustained.
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Adam and Eve were obsolutly not the first people on the earth!\n\n Any Bible scholar with half a brain would be able to decipher that GODS WORD ( bible ) alone makes that claim!\n\nAnyone who makes the claim that all people come from Adam and Eve are simply dispelling Judaisms greatest hoax upon the body of Christ!\n\nIt is true that God stated that HE made Adam and Eve in His "own likeness" and  That He created them "for His own purpose." Remember that as we go along!\n\nWe all know the story of Adam and Eve and the alleged apple incident . Which ,, BTW is nothing more than a Judaeo incert into our bibles. There is no such thing as an apple leading any of GODS people astray. In the garden we see that GOD upon calling Adam and Eve HE noticed that they were aware of their nakedness. God asked them  how they knew and Adam right away blamed it on Eve . Eve in turn stated that the "SERPENT HAD BEGUILD ME." The word " beguiled" means to SEDUCE and the intention here is meant to be seduced sexually.\n\nWas ADAM really blaming EVE? Obsulutely not! the fact that Eve first had sex with the serpent ( satan) was the great sin. Upon knowing of this great thing called sex Eve then consumated with ADAM and ADAM hade thought that he had sinned.\n\n     Not so, for GOD after creating Adam and Eve had told them they may partake of any fruit in the garden ( which there were only ADAM and Eve) but they are not to partake of the evil fruit of knowledge . God refers to all things as Fruit, Be fruitfull and multiply, thy fruit of thy womb, thy fruit of thy loins ect, ect. The evil fruit whom had all knowledge was in fact Satan and it was satan that had "beguild" or suduced Eve. Then eve seduced Adam which was a perfect suduction as planned by God. It is scientifically proven that a woman can have sex with one man and hours or days later have sex with another man and become pregnant with twins by two diferent biological fathers.\n\nIn this case one father was Adam and the other father was Satan or later known as the CANNITES.\n\nWAIT ! IT GETS BETTER AND THEN YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENNED!\n\nWhen cain slew ABLE God called to CAIN. CAIN WERE IS THEY BROTHER? Cain answered " Am I my brothers keeper? God reasoned and said "YOUR BROTHERS BLOOd HAS CRIED OUT TO ME" meaing that blood has a voice that only GOD can hear!\n\nFor this abomination God told Cain that He will CURSE AND DRIVE him out of the garden for killing the son of man. God knew good and well that CAIN and thusly the CANNITES were not of the son of man.\n\n\nIn the fourth chapter of GENISIS Cain makes this statement to GOD: \n   " I shall be a vagabond on the earth: IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT EVERY ONE THAT FINDETH ME SHALL SLAY ME."\n\nIf only Adam and Eve existed ,then  WHO was Cain afraid of that would kill him? Who was it that he would be a fugitive from? It is quite clear that the "everyone ' that Cain was refering to could not be Adam and Eve. Who was Cain refering to?\n\nCain was well aware ( more than some bible readers who could not see this truth) that many people existed in the lands around them. This fact is VERIFIED BY GOD in HIS response to Cain in verse 15:\n\nGod told Cain that " WHOSOEVER OF THE "OTHER" PEOPLE THAT MIGHT SLAY YOU, VENGENEANCE SHALL BE ON THAT PERSON."\n\nWhy did God give Cain and identifying "MARK" if Adam and EVE were the only people who knew him very well and were the only "other " alleged people alive? Why would they need a "mark " to identify Their son Cain?\n\nIf Adam and Eve were the FIRST and ONlY PEOPLE at this time, then from were did Cain find a wife? Not only was he able to find a wife , but there were obviously enough people to be part of the city built by Cain after his expulsion from the garden. Cains marriage, the birth of his son Seth, all these circumstances thus point to the existance of men independent of Adam