Forbidden Fruit
What was this precious fruit that Adam and Eve ate? As in real life fruits. I've already heard about apples, grapes, figs, tomatoes, wheat, and corn (that one doesn't make since).
Well corn could be if you did the "America's is the Garden of Eden?" thing.
Last edited by Noremac; August 20, 2008 at 06:18 PM.
Now Is Not the Time
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The Bible never says, though people like to think it is an apple.
Praefectus
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I think it could be one amazing fruit that can talk.
Why an apple though?
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The latin "malum" as an adjective means "evil" as a noun means "apple".Originally Posted by Ashashi
So people thought evil and apple being the same word must mean that the fruit was an apple.
Praefectus
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Oh fair play!
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Now Is Not the Time
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Thank you for that education lesson.
Now Is Not the Time
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Heck if I know, why do people always give Satan a pitchfork?
Praefectus
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Cause he's a farmer during the day.....duh!
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I don't think that it matters what kind of fruit it was. What matters in the story is that it came from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and that Adam ate it contrary to God's command.
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Now Is Not the Time
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He blamed it on his wife, like any husband.
Comes Limitis
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pomegranate
Now Is Not the Time
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You like pomegranates?
Primicerius
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Malum = in greek means "μήλο"=apple. Originaly meant fruit or lotus.The center of diversity of the genus Malus is the eastern Turkey. The apple tree was perhaps the earliest tree to be cultivated,[8] and its fruits have been improved through selection over thousands of years. Alexander the Great is credited with finding dwarfed apples in Asia Minor in 300 BCE;[1] those he brought back to Greece might have been the progenitors of dwarfing rootstocks.
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Since bible was first written in greek, the fruit that the protoplast ate was describe as with that world which later had its meaning changed from fruit to apple
and later on that caused the misunderstanding
Last edited by Eastern Roman; August 20, 2008 at 06:38 PM.
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I thought it was latin.Malum = in greek means "μήλο"=apple. Originaly meant fruit or lotus.
Since bible was first written in greek, the fruit that the protoplast ate was describe as with that world which later had its meaning changed from fruit to apple
and later on that caused the misunderstanding
Oh well. I can't be right all the time.
Here's a link!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_fruit
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Christianity
Something else to look at.
Comes Limitis
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I find them odd; but I am convinced they are the mystical fruit of many traditions being the prominent fruit of the old middle east.
there are actually books written about why the pomegranate is significant in symbolism.
Now Is Not the Time
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They certainly have enough seeds...
Comes Limitis
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when I ate them it was for religious purposes; I ate everything.( are you not supposed to eat the seeds?)
Now Is Not the Time
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I think you're supposed to suck on 'em? I forget. Either way, they're sticky and tricky little fiddling bastards to eat.
Primicerius
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hahahaThere are also opinions that it was tomato because this fruit in some Slavic languages is called "rajčica" or "paradajz", (both words are related to paradise - "raj" means "paradise").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_fruittomato?
anyway i think the misunderstanding was caused during the translation to greek since the greek world for apple changed it's meaning from fruit to apple...
So i think neither apple or tomato are true since originally that wasn't really clear
If i may guess since the story came from people who lived in modern israel and that places the fruit may was somekind of the trees which they've got there.
Anyway the fruit was and the story most probably are just symbolic;
like the story that god create the world in 7 days
Last edited by Eastern Roman; August 20, 2008 at 07:08 PM.
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