Myths & Legends

the apple?

How do we really know that in the Bible the forbidden fruit adam and eve ate was an apple?

beam me up Tue 15/04/08 16:07

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heathfield
Tue 15/04/08
18:10

No, we don't know. Genesis simply says 'fruit of the tree of knowledge'. Almost every fruit under the sun has been suggested, buy there's simply no way of knowing.

Peter Pedant
Tue 15/04/08
21:44

we don't
It's a story

realllyswell
Fri 18/04/08
15:57

If you look closely into myths and stories you see the apple portrayed a lot as an important fruit. Like in snow white where she goes into a coma from eating an apple. Or perhaps when the bibles were written apples were just a rare fruit considered to be "forbidden". We can't know.

jno
Fri 18/04/08
21:21

specifically, it's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which sounds more like a botanical metaphor than an actual plant. No mention of apples.

shylock73
Thurs 15/05/08
13:11

And how do we know anything about "The Beginning?"Who was there to know how to write it all down? Baloney

montag50158
Tue 03/06/08
00:17

I suspect that it is seen in the popular imagination as an apple primarily because of bad art; apples are a common (and cheap) model used by artists.

janevgrey
Thurs 12/06/08
13:08

It is a fable and not to be taken too seriously. Archaeology has demontrated that humans existed on earth millions of years before the mythical Adam and Eve, however, if they were the first humans we are all related and I haven't had my Christmas card from you yet!

Gabbyfry91
Fri 18/07/08
01:57

i heard it was a fig coz of the shape of the leaves they used to cover themselves up wiv once the descovered their nakedness

but i dont believe in the bible lol

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