Apple vs fig
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Re: Apple vs fig
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Lol, I don't think we'll ever know for sure what fruit it is. I think we all at some point just like to fill in the blanks with our imagination, the same way the author did.B Creech wrote: ↑07 Jun 2020, 11:30 It doesn't tell us anywhere in the Bible what fruit Adam and Eve are from the tree of knowledge in the Bible. I always have heard that it was an apple. I had never heard anyone say it was a fig or any other fruit. God told them (Adam and Eve) not to eat of the "fruit." To my knowledge, the apple is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible, however, the fig tree is. In Mark 11:12-25 Jesus curses the fig tree as a sign the Jewish people don't accept him as the Messiah.
Could the fruit Adam and Eve had eaten in the garden have been a fig as the author portrays? Or was it actually an apple? Or, will we ever know for sure?
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I think we all just imagined it was an apple. The apple is juicy and we can totally see some one biting into it. Plus a fig tree I don't think just one fig would have been enough for Adam and Eve. Also in the Bible everything happened almost immediately after they took a bite, not after several bites. It must have been a fruit that was a lot like an apple.B Creech wrote: ↑07 Jun 2020, 11:30 It doesn't tell us anywhere in the Bible what fruit Adam and Eve are from the tree of knowledge in the Bible. I always have heard that it was an apple. I had never heard anyone say it was a fig or any other fruit. God told them (Adam and Eve) not to eat of the "fruit." To my knowledge, the apple is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible, however, the fig tree is. In Mark 11:12-25 Jesus curses the fig tree as a sign the Jewish people don't accept him as the Messiah.
Could the fruit Adam and Eve had eaten in the garden have been a fig as the author portrays? Or was it actually an apple? Or, will we ever know for sure?
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Wait so you're saying that Cain is the product of satan and Eve, but the book says otherwise because they are not the first children. I know that they are some sleeping together but it did not think it was with satan.Amesthenerd wrote: ↑07 Jun 2020, 16:41 I was always told it was an apple, except the time I was told that the actual real sin was that Eve slept with Satan and that’s where Cain came from. Otherwise it was always an apple. Maybe that’s why apples are so delicious?
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I agree that the fruit itself doesn't really matter. There is no way to know for sure what kind of fruit it was, but generally it seems that people tell it to be an apple.Julyet_Chris wrote: ↑07 Jun 2020, 16:41 I’ve never thought about this but it actually makes sense now one does, The particular fruit was not mentioned and honestly it doesn’t really matter to me.The apple was generally accepted just like most things we accept without questioning.
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