Apple vs fig
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Perhaps we will. An interesting fact I read from the internet is that Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel has Eve holding a fig! All other famous painters have shown her with an apple. I guess this debate has been around forever!moowshiri wrote: ↑21 Jun 2020, 15:52I can't agree more. Perhaps we'll get to know whatever fruit it was once we get to Heaven.B Creech wrote: ↑21 Jun 2020, 15:43There does seem to be a lot of controversy about the type of fruit it was. One interesting thing I heard while growing up was that the adam's apple men have was named that because of the fruit Adam and Eve ate from the tree was an apple. Hence the name "Adam's Apple!" I'm sure someone made that up and it caught on so that others repeated it; much like the fruit is an apple! Interesting the things we hold onto from our earlier lives!
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Absolutely! I think it is one of those things God chose not to tell us. Maybe He will tell us in Heaven, but I don't think we will care when we get there!
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Yes, it might! I discovered the type of fruit they ate has been debated as far back as the fourth century! So we are not the only ones who thought it was an apple!Ada Ling wrote: ↑21 Jun 2020, 18:45 Before reading this book, I always thought they ate the apple. So when I read "fig" in the book, I was a little puzzled. But this does not affect me reading this book. Fig is a more mysterious fruit than apple. So it might fit the long, long time ago story better!
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That's interesting! I had never looked at it like that! Thanks for the input on that.
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That's true! And we know there was a fig tree close by in the garden because Adam and Eve used fig leaves to cover themselves.
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I grew up knowing it was an apple. Coincidentally, apples are my favorite.B Creech wrote: ↑07 Jun 2020, 18:15I think the majority of people grew up saying it was an apple. You're right, it doesn't really matter. I just thought it would be a fun discussion seeing what others thought. Also, the Author using a fig, and Jesus Cursing the fig tree, kind of made my eyebrows raise in thought!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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Which one did you grow up believing it was: a fruit or a fig?
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You know what? That makes perfect sense! Thanks for that!Sally_Heart wrote: ↑22 Jun 2020, 14:34 I think the apple has been exaggerated as a forbidden fruit. I don't think the fruit is any fruit that earth has. I mean, if God had to forbid a fruit why would He then come back and give it in abundance?
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