By the way these are the same trappings of sin that we are faced with today more on that later. Because there are so many different types of fruit that grow on a tree, there really is no way of knowing what type of fruit it really was.
Sorry apples you have been blamed for something that you may have had nothing to do with. When you are reading the story, your focus should not be on what the forbidden fruit in Genesis was. It should be on the act of disobedience that Adam and Eve committed. When you read the creation story you discover from Genesis that there were plenty of trees in the garden. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. God put them in the garden and provided them with plenty of choices of food to eat.
I would imagine that every type of tree bearing fruit was probably represented in the garden. This is only my speculation, but I would say think of any fruit that grows on a tree and it was probably available in the garden.
There were however two important trees in the middle of the garden that were different from the rest. The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree of life as it states gave life, particularly eternal life.
The other tree would produce death. A question that often comes to mind is why was the tree of knowledge in the garden to begin with? For many Bible scholars the main answer is about free will. God created man for intimacy and fellowship with him, but from the very beginning this was not a forced fellowship, it is a chosen fellowship. From the beginning until today God gives every human the same free will. We can choose to follow and obey or we can choose to go our own way.
Eve fell victim to temptation in much the same way we do. I want to show you what happened to Eve because this still plagues us today.
To keep it simple, Eve rejected what God had provided in search of something else or something different. I want you to consider the similarities between the fruit on all the trees in the garden.
In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There were many trees in the garden, some were simply good for eating while two others had a purpose other than sustenance.
Though the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was the only tree in the garden that truly presented humanity with an option. To not eat of the tree meant that Adam and Eve were choosing not just obedience but also satisfaction. To not eat would mean that they were satisfied in God Himself and the life He had given them; it would be an acknowledgement that they had all they needed, what more could they want.
On the other hand, the option to eat the fruit meant not only were Adam and Eve disobeying a command from God, but they also wanted more than what God had given them. Living in the presence of God was not enough, they wanted to be the god of their own life. They wanted to know everything that God knew, and so they chose desire without care of the consequence that was sure to come.
They chose to trust the serpent and their own desire over God's words. We don't know what kind of fruit hung on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; what we know is that it looked like food and was pleasing to the sight, according to Genesis.
But the type of fruit, though many have symbolized it in art with an apple or pomegranate, is not important. Simply put, God forbid the fruit because He loved and cared for humanity. He knew the consequence of sin, should humanity choose it; He knew what would result in the human heart and across all of creation.
Eden in itself was designed for full relationship without separation from God. The Lord came and spoke with Adam, and He was present in the garden with the couple. God gave humanity the gift of free will, which is something true relationship requires. So Adam and Eve were given the choice to choose God, to love Him, to trust Him, and be satisfied in life with Him by refusing the fruit. It turns out this interpretation likely didn't originate in Jewish lore, Zibotofsky said.
Instead, the possible path from fruit to apple began in Rome in A. But it was a generic term [for fruit] as well," Appelbaum told Live Science. Apple had this generic meaning until the 17th century, according to the Online Etymological Dictionary. Jerome likely chose the word "malum" to mean fruit, because the very same word can also mean evil, Appelbaum said. So it's a pun, referring to the fruit associated with humans' first big mistake with a word that also means essentially that.
Meanwhile, paintings and other artistic recreations of the Garden of Eden have helped solidify the apple as the forbidden fruit. In art, unlike in writing, a fruit cannot be purely generic, Appelbaum said. Yet by the 16th century, the apple had also entered the proverbial fruit bowl.
Even then the Prime Minister was with difficulty prevented from bowling during forbidden hours. The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden , often pictured as an apple, which God forbade Adam and Eve to eat.
Their disobedience brought about the Fall of Man. Unlawful pleasure or enjoyment; illicit love. For example, After Mary moved in with John, Tom began courting her—forbidden fruit is sweet, I guess , or Smoking behind the woodshed, that's a case of forbidden fruit.
This expression alludes to Adam and Eve's violation of God's commandment not to touch fruit from the tree of knowledge, which resulted in their expulsion from the Garden of Eden Genesis
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