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Forbidden fruit is a phrase that originates from the Book of Genesis concerning Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:16–17. In the narrative, Adam and Eve eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, which they had been commanded not to do by God. As a metaphor, the phrase typically refers to any indulgence or pleasure that is considered illegal or immoral.
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Mike Reddy
Mike Reddy, former Ex Forensic Investigator student of Religion
Updated Mar 1, 2019 · Author has 1.7k answers and 122k answer views
This story is written in cryptic language and is not intended to be taken literally. The “forbidden fruit” is a metaphor for something else.
According to several Jewish and Christian commentators:
The “forbidden fruit” in this context is the sex act. Because Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit she was cursed to suffer pain during childbirth.
She was not yet “married” to Adam and she had no knowledge of sex. The “Serpent” a metaphor for a Man like animal, seduced Eve. Eve conceived by the Serpent and had sex with Adam and also conceived.
Cain is believed to be of the devil because he was the son of the Serpent. Abel was the son of Adam. later both groups (Adams lineage and Cain’s lineage) would mix and it is believed that we are the products of this hybrid race of humans.
Lest, readers think I am sucking this out of my thumb, the story of the Serpent Seed Doctrine first appeared in the Gospel of Phillip in the first century, and was preached by certain Jewish Rabbis in the 5th and 9th century. These writings appear in the 9th century Jewish Midrash and Kaballah.
Later it was preached by a leading Christian evangelist in the 18th century, and revived in the 19th and 20th century by the controversial and world famous (or infamous) Reverend William Branham.
Did Adam and Eve have bellybuttons?
Why did God use Adam's rib to create Eve?
Did God set Adam and Eve up to fail knowing that they'd eat the fruit?
Why did Adam and Eve eat that damn fruit, anyway?
How do we know that the fruit Adam and Eve consumed was Apple?
Crowly Mathew Arackal
Crowly Mathew Arackal, The message of Bible is the word of God.
Answered Apr 29, 2019 · Author has 9.1k answers and 7.1m answer views
Originally Answered: What fruit did Adam and Eve actually eat?
If you really need to understand what fruit it was please read Genesis Chapter 3 once.
Now let us re-read it for clarity.
1Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
Serpent is used to represent the Evil. Why not a monkey? We will see this later.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
God had asked Adam not to eat from the tree in the midst of the garden (the tree of knowledge of good and evil). Satan knows it. At least the Satan had seen both Adam and Eve eating fruits of other trees. But still Satan asks “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?’” This is a harmless question that compels Eve to answer.
Here the evil made an opportunity for a dialogue. A harmless dialogue. Eve did not see anything threatening in the question. So she feels free to answer the Satan. The first target of evil is achieved. Starting a dialogue with the woman! Is it not the way every evil enter people’s mind and influence them? It appears as something harmless, and slowly lead people into temptation and then in to sin or do something unwanted.
And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
See, Eve is fully aware of the command. The command was very clear and simple. Both Adam and Eve had been enjoying the life in the Garden of Eden and they obeyed it so far. And so far they never thought of eating from that tree. They simply avoided it. They do not want to disobey God.
4But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
“You will be like God”, you will be “knowing good and evil”. What a temptation? They always knew God and they respected Him, revered Him, venerated Him. They looked at God as their father. Never thought of becoming like Him! It may took some time to grow the seed of temptation in their minds.
6So 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 its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
This is a process of justifying own decision. Once we wanted to do something evil we will start balancing the merits and demerits of proceeding with it. Here Eve is finding justifications to eat the fruit. She ate it not because it was good for food (it was the same yesterday) a delight to the eyes (it was the same yesterday). But remember she ignored the value of being obedient to God.
They knew a lot of things including it was God who created them, entrusted the whole creations to him for maintaining them. God was interested in their happiness and God visited them very often! But after all they trusted the Satan and took God for a liar!! God had clearly said they would die if they eat from the tree, but Satan said they will not die. They trusted the Satan more than God who was known to them.
Is it not true even in our case? We all know it is our parents who want our safety and well being more than anybody else. Then comes our teachers and our good friends. But many a times we ignore the guidelines given by them and we proceed to embrace evil not to become God, but to enjoy some pleasure, satisfy our greed, revenge to somebody etc. Evil always comes with sugar coated. It always comes with some kind of satisfaction. Is it not meaningful even to our lives as it was to Adam and Eve?
7Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.
See what did the disobedience did to them? It changed their vision. They were always naked. But it was acceptable to them. Then why they “sewed fig leaves together” and try to cover themselves? It is very clear that they spoiled the relationships by disobedience, sin. They spoiled the relationship with God, with oneself, and with each other. They could not accept themselves, then how they can present themselves to others?
Reading this some interpret that the sin they did was sexual, or the sin was sexual intercourse. No. It was not. God created everything as male and female so that they will multiply. It is true in the case of Adam and Eve also. Now let us read further.
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
When our parents or authorities are away and as they come back we will be happy to greet them. But we will be hiding our-self, or keep away from them, if we did some damages in their absence. It means we spoiled the relationship with something undesirable we did, in short we disobeyed!
9But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” 10And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
We feel we are not presentable before you! If one cannot accept himself how do he present himself to others?
Being naked also explains helplessness. Ancient Indian scriptures use the word ‘nakedness’ to indicate the ones who are out of protection of four Vedas. It points to the ones who lost the protection of God.
11He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
Did you disobey me?
12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” 13Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
When Adam saw Eve for first see what he said about Eve: “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”. Wow, he is accepting her as himself. What a love, what an acceptance! But after they spoiled their relationship with God Adam now says “the woman whom you gave to be with me”. See how detached he is now from Eve. He also sounds as if what happened was the mistake of God!
Eve says “the serpent deceived me, and I ate”. Remember the only knowledge they gained by eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil was that Satan was telling a lie!! What a pity?
What did really happen here? What is this knowledge of good and evil? It is nothing other than rejection of God. It is the stand “I know what is good and evil” and you need not try to direct me or teach me. “I know” so I do not want you any more! Is this not happening in everybody’s life? We had moments when we disobeyed our true well wishers thinking our knowledge is better and rejected or refused to listen to God, parents, or other well wishers and gave ear to evil.
14The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.
Answering a common question why snake travel on its belly!
15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
The first prophesy about someone who will overpower evil. The first prophesy about Jesus Christ.
16To the woman he said,“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”
Answering a common question why childbearing is painful?
17And to Adam he said,“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. 19By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Life on earth is painful and difficult today only because we are away from God and we sinned against him.
20The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.g 21And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
“And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them”. Adam and Eve sinned against God, disobeyed God and went away from Him saying they know what is good and evil and they do not need the guidance of God anymore. But still the loving Father, God accept them and protect them.
22Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” 23therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
God protected the tree of life for his love for human beings. Being away from God and eating from the tree of life, they will live for ever away from God and their life in this earth is not easy. So God give them an opportunity to go back to God after death in this world and then have the fruit from the tree of life! God wanted men to be with God for ever.
Why snake, why not monkey? This part of the Bible was written during the time of king Solomon. In those days the greatest damage they faced to the Jews was from Canaanites who also worshiped snake. Their feasts were an opportunity for adultery and liquor. The people of Israel also were attracted to these celebrations. The writer wanted to keep the Israelis away from worshiping snake and joining such celebrations.
Is it Historical? Genesis chapters from 12 onward have a historical background. But chapters 1 to 11 deal with prehistory. It is written to convey a very clear message and it is packed with intelligence. The message is word of God. There is no meaning in asking if the fruit was apple or orange! Same is the case with the question why God planted the tree in the Garden? Man disobeyed God and went away from Him. The message is very clear to both a scholar as well as a child. Both understand it in their own way.
I do not claim I have explained everything in Chapter 3 of Genesis. There are much more. But what we need to understand is that anything in the Bible have a meaning and a message.
There are good and bad, good people and bad people, good events and bad events recorded in the Bible. The good is to follow. The bad is lessons. So doing something and saying ‘it is written in bible’ does not justify it.
Judging Bible should be done after studying it from the right resources. Bible use different forms of literature. Metaphor is one of them. Bible carry poetry, drama, history, apocalyptic writings, etc. It is the history of salvation.
While reading Bible it is fine we picture what is written. That is the elementary meaning but still give a message. When you read again you will understand it is not just something that happened in the past but have a relevance TODAY in the world you are living in, and it has a meaning and message for you.
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Thando Xaluva
Thando Xaluva
Answered Sep 28, 2018 · Author has 259 answers and 16k answer views
it's not the fruit that matters it is the knowledge that the fruit held. such knowledge was forbidden, that is self awareness.
ie. it is when man became aware of himself, but also became aware of time and so had to be given physical form and live out his day's on earth, because he now had days to count when before there was no time and no awareness of self.
no physical body, no aging, no future, no past, only the present and what was “right” with consciousness.
this isn't like what the animals had to go through mind you, the animals had to partake in survival of the fittest. man was simply given form physical on the back of an already existing creation, hence the missing link.
we are still in the image of the creator mind you because we can detach from the physical and experience all time via dreams or narcotics, though not at will. we are capable of creation and we do this in more aspects than people care to think, (this very post is in the spirit of the image of the creator, I manifest it incorporeal from the ether that is consciousness and bring it forth into the physical with either my hands or my voice.) we also shape people around us like clay, sometimes in machiavellian fashion pending a malevolent turn.
enter chaos to disrupt the perfect order that was, in the form of a snake, specifically aimed at the women, (explanation for this choice by the ancients is pending another less PC era) and so we were banished from the land of the incorporeal and had to experience time as the creation itself does, but not as the creator does.
one can only hope this makes sense lol
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Brown Mosa
Brown Mosa, Bakery Supervisor (2016-present)
Answered Apr 6, 2018
Why should it be an apple when apples were never mentioned in the Word of God in reference to the Garden of Eden? Although the Bible speaks that they were not to eat of the TREE of the knowledge of good and evil, but never can we find in the entire Scriptures that it was an apple that have caused our transgressions and fall (Genesis 2:17). It will be difficult for many readers to believe this, but of a truth, it was SEX or ADULTERY with the SERPENT that caused the fall of EVE and ADAM, through which sin came into the world and brought each of us under its curse.
Here is where we receive the true revelation of the SERPENT’S SEED, and here is what really happened in the Garden of Eden. The Word says that Eve was beguiled by the serpent. She was actually seduced by the serpent. Satan took advantage of the serpent’s physical characteristics to use him to beguile Eve. Remember that it was Lucifer’s ambition to build himself a greater kingdom than Michael did in heaven, before he was kicked out on earth. And still, he wanted to pursue his evil plan in this world after that. And the only way for Satan to accomplish what he wanted to do was to enter the serpent in Eden even as he entered by evil spirits into the swine at Gadara. He could not have a child directly by Eve as did God by Mary, so he entered into the serpent and then beguiled Eve. He seduced her and by her did Satan have a child vicariously - CAIN, the seed of the serpent, who bore the full spiritual characteristics of Satan and the animalistic ( sensual, fleshly) characteristic of the serpent, and a murderer, too.
It says in Genesis 3:1, “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.” This beast was so close to a human being (and yet was pure animal) that he could reason and talk. He was close to a man. He was almost man. He was an upright creature and was somewhat in between a chimpanzee and a man, but closer to a man. He was so close to being human that his seed could, and did mingle with that of the woman and cause her to conceive. Before Adam ever had a carnal knowledge of Eve, the serpent had that knowledge ahead of him. And that one born of it was CAIN. “Cain was of (born of, begotten of) that “Wicked One”, according to I John 3:12.
Notice what God said to the SERPENT in the garden. Genesis 3:15, “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed, It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel.” If we give credit to the Word that the woman did have a seed, then the serpent must have surely had a SEED also. If the SEED of the woman was a MAN-CHILD apart from the man, then the SEED of the serpent will have to be in the same pattern, and that is another male must be born apart from human male instrumentality.
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Contents
1Biblical narrative
2Identifications and depictions
2.1Apple
2.2Grape
2.3Fig
2.4Pomegranate
2.5Wheat
2.6Mushroom
3Parallel concepts
3.1Ancient Greeks
4Other views
4.1Islamic traditions
5See also
6References
7External links
Biblical narrative[edit]
Main articles: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and Original sin
The narrative of the Book of Genesis places the first man and woman (Adam and Eve) in a garden where they may eat the fruit of many trees but are forbidden by God to eat from the "tree of knowledge of good and evil".
And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
— Genesis 2:16–17[1]
In Genesis 3, a serpent tempts the woman:
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
— Genesis 3:4–5[2]
Desiring this wisdom, the woman eats the forbidden fruit and gives some to the man who also eats it. They become aware of their "nakedness" and make fig-leaf clothes, and hide themselves when God approaches. God curses The Serpent, The Woman then The Man, and expels the Man and Woman from the garden and thereby from eternal life.
Identifications and depictions[edit]
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The word fruit appears in Hebrew as פֶּ֫רִי (pərî ). As to which fruit may have been the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden, possibilities include apple, grape, pomegranate,[3] fig,[4] carob,[3] etrog or citron,[3] pear, and mushrooms. The pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch describes the tree of knowledge: "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!" (1 Enoch 31:4).
An alternative view is that the forbidden fruit is metaphorical, possibly the fruit of the womb, i.e. sex and procreation from the tree of life. In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Hindu spiritual teacher Paramhansa Yogananda cites an interpretation by his master Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri that the Garden of Eden refers to man's body, with the fruit in the center being that of the sexual organs.[5]
Apple[edit]
In Western Europe, the fruit was often depicted as an apple. This was possibly because of a misunderstanding of – or a pun on – mălum, a native Latin noun which means evil (from the adjective malus), and mālum, another Latin noun, borrowed from Greek μῆλον, which means apple. In the Vulgate, Genesis 2:17 describes the tree as de ligno autem scientiae boni et mali : "but of the tree [literally wood ] of knowledge of good and evil" (mali here is the genitive of malum).
The larynx, specifically the laryngeal prominence that joins the thyroid cartilage, in the human throat is noticeably more prominent in males and was consequently called an Adam's apple, from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in Adam's throat as he swallowed it.[6]
Grape[edit]
Rabbi Meir says that the fruit was a grape, made into wine.[7] The Zohar explains similarly that Noah attempted (but failed) to rectify the sin of Adam by using grape wine for holy purposes.[8][9] The midrash of Bereishit Rabah states that the fruit was grape,[10] or squeezed grapes (perhaps alluding to wine).[11] Chapter 4 of 3 Baruch, also known as the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, designates the fruit as the grape. 3 Baruch is a first to third century text that is either Christian or Jewish with Christian interpolations. [12]
Fig[edit]
See also: Figs in the Bible
The Bible states in the book of Genesis that Adam and Eve had made their own fig leaf clothing: "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".[13] Based on that reference, the forbidden fruit may have been the fig.
Rabbi Nechemia, based on the Talmud, supports the idea that the fruit was a fig, as it was from fig leaves that God made garments for Adam and Eve upon expelling them from the Garden. "By that with which they were made low were they rectified."[14]
Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance. The most famous depiction of the fig as the forbidden fruit was painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti in his masterpiece fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.[15]
Pomegranate[edit]
Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is now known as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was actually a pomegranate, a plant indigenous from Iran to the Himalayas and cultivated since ancient times.[16] The association of the pomegranate with knowledge of the underworld as provided in the Ancient Greek legend of Persephone may also have given rise to an association with knowledge of the otherworld, tying-in with knowledge that is forbidden to mortals.
Wheat[edit]
Rabbi Yehuda proposes that the fruit was wheat, because "a baby does not know to call its mother and father until it tastes the taste of grain."[7]
In Hebrew, wheat is "khitah", which has been considered to be a pun on "khet", meaning "sin".[3]
Although commonly confused with a seed, in the study of botany a wheat berry is technically a simple fruit known as a caryopsis, which has the same structure as an apple. Just as an apple is a fleshy fruit that contains seeds, a grain is a dry fruit that absorbs water and contains a seed. The confusion comes from the fact that the fruit of a grass happens to have a form similar to some seeds.[17]
Mushroom[edit]
A fresco in the 13th-century Plaincourault Abbey in France depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, flanking a Tree of Knowledge that has the appearance of a gigantic Amanita muscaria, a psychoactive mushroom.[18] Terence McKenna proposed that the forbidden fruit was a reference to psychotropic plants and fungi, specifically psilocybin mushrooms, which he theorized played a central role in the evolution of the human brain.[19] Earlier, in a well-documented and heavily criticized study,[20][21] John M. Allegro proposed the mushroom as the forbidden fruit.[22]
Parallel concepts[edit]
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Ancient Greeks[edit]
The similarities of the story to the story of Pandora's box were identified by early Christians such as Tertullian, Origen, and Gregory of Nazianzus.[23]
Other views[edit]
Islamic traditions[edit]
See also: Adam and Eve § Islamic tradition, and Original sin § Islamic view
According to the Quran, Surah Al-A'raf 7:19 describes Adam and his wife in Paradise where they may eat what is provided, except that they may not eat from one particular tree, lest they be considered Zalimun (wrongdoers).[24] Surah Ibrahim 14:26 describes the forbidden tree as an evil tree that is forbidden for guidance.[25]
Surah Al-A'raf 7:22 describes the ˈibliːs (Satan) who misled them with deception, and then it was Adam who initiated eating from the forbidden tree. Then when they tasted of the tree, that which was hidden from them of their shame became manifest to them and they began to cover themselves with the leaves of Paradise. And their Lord called out to them: "Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you; Verily, Shaitân is an open enemy unto you?" (Quran 7:19). The Quran holds both Adam and his wife accountable for eating the forbidden fruit. As punishment, they were forced to leave the garden, banished from Heaven and sent to the Earth where they were forgiven after repenting.
The fruit is commonly either identified with wheat or with grapevine in Islamic tradition.[26]