Why did everyone settle for apple when the bible didnt mention the name of the fruit?

[Adrian Bouknight]

The bible described the fruit of good and bad in the garden of Eden but did not explicitly mention an apple. I have been wondering over the years, why did most people assume that fruit could've been an apple?

There is a conflict of cultural context. When people read the Bible today, we read it through our own cultural lens. We might assume the characters to be Caucasian, we might assume the fruit to be something we see in a local grocery store. We might even assume that the people in the Bible spoke modern English like we do.

Because the old testament was written thousands of years ago, this causes a great deal of confusion and problems in the church today.

[Amarachi maryann Orjiewulu 1]

Wow, come to think of it, that's true .... Well I guess people just settled for apple because it was quite convenient.