Apple vs fig
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Re: Apple vs fig
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If the Bible didn't mention the actual name of the fruit, then I guess God didn't find it necessary for us to know. Could it be that God made the tree extinct all-together? Could it also be that the 'tree'...the 'fruit' ....and even garden weren't meant to be taken literally, but instead symbolic?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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My pastor often compared the philosophy of taking the Bible as a cake recipe... if you only take it as suggestions, or think you can change ingredients at will, then you're not going to have a good cake. If you follow the recipe as written, you get a cake.David_Kariuki wrote: ↑10 Aug 2020, 06:05
If the Bible didn't mention the actual name of the fruit, then I guess God didn't find it necessary for us to know. Could it be that God made the tree extinct all-together? Could it also be that the 'tree'...the 'fruit' ....and even garden weren't meant to be taken literally, but instead symbolic?
If you only follow the Word as suggestions, or metaphors, then you won't be correct. Take it literally. So, tree and fruit.
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I think we have to look at it both ways...like when Jesus said that He would destroy the temple and rebuild it in 3 days...He didn't literally do that. It was symbolic....take also when The Bible says that the Son of man shall crush the head of the snake, we don't see Jesus literally doing that either. We can't just ignore the fact that the Bible is full of metaphors and symbolism.Leecedar wrote: ↑10 Aug 2020, 15:58My pastor often compared the philosophy of taking the Bible as a cake recipe... if you only take it as suggestions, or think you can change ingredients at will, then you're not going to have a good cake. If you follow the recipe as written, you get a cake.David_Kariuki wrote: ↑10 Aug 2020, 06:05
If the Bible didn't mention the actual name of the fruit, then I guess God didn't find it necessary for us to know. Could it be that God made the tree extinct all-together? Could it also be that the 'tree'...the 'fruit' ....and even garden weren't meant to be taken literally, but instead symbolic?
If you only follow the Word as suggestions, or metaphors, then you won't be correct. Take it literally. So, tree and fruit.
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I agree! That is why when we study the Bible we need to take our time and reflect to understand as much as God wants us to understand!David_Kariuki wrote: ↑11 Aug 2020, 02:04I think we have to look at it both ways...like when Jesus said that He would destroy the temple and rebuild it in 3 days...He didn't literally do that. It was symbolic....take also when The Bible says that the Son of man shall crush the head of the snake, we don't see Jesus literally doing that either. We can't just ignore the fact that the Bible is full of metaphors and symbolism.Leecedar wrote: ↑10 Aug 2020, 15:58My pastor often compared the philosophy of taking the Bible as a cake recipe... if you only take it as suggestions, or think you can change ingredients at will, then you're not going to have a good cake. If you follow the recipe as written, you get a cake.David_Kariuki wrote: ↑10 Aug 2020, 06:05
If the Bible didn't mention the actual name of the fruit, then I guess God didn't find it necessary for us to know. Could it be that God made the tree extinct all-together? Could it also be that the 'tree'...the 'fruit' ....and even garden weren't meant to be taken literally, but instead symbolic?
If you only follow the Word as suggestions, or metaphors, then you won't be correct. Take it literally. So, tree and fruit.
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1:27-29 God said to Adam and Eve that they could eat all fruit trees with seeds. As apples have seeds perhaps on a more literal note this is not the fruit. It took time before I understand that the "fruit" actually meant Eve slept with Lucifer- the shock!
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