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Origins of the idea that the fruit on the tree of knowledge was an apple?
"And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. "
-That is as much info as we get. Does anyone know the origins of the idea that it was an apple?
2borno.
My question was not WHAT it was but how were the origins of the belief that it was an apple. No it does not matter what fruit it is.
Thanks VERY MUCH Kuve! I like that answer.
Tuberoot, your answer is interesting as well.
Thanks adagio :)
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- adagio58Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The early Christians of Ethiopia had a "pomegranate" in their sacred texts for the Garden of Eden allegory.
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Re: APPLES - could have been borrowed from other myths:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/maia/history.ht...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides
The Garden of the Hesperides is Hera's orchard in the west, where either a single tree or a grove of immortality-giving golden apples grew. The apples were planted from the fruited branches that Gaia gave to her as a wedding gift when Hera accepted Zeus. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally plucked from it themselves. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden a never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard.
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- 1 decade ago
(Genesis 3:1-5) . . .Now the serpent proved to be the most cautious of all the wild beasts of the field that Jehovah God had made. So it began to say to the woman: “Is it really so that God said YOU must not eat from every tree of the garden?” 2 At this the woman said to the serpent: “Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat. 3 But as for [eating] of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘YOU must not eat from it, no, YOU must not touch it that YOU do not die.’” 4 At this the serpent said to the woman: “YOU positively will not die. 5 For God knows that in the very day of YOUR eating from it YOUR eyes are bound to be opened and YOU are bound to be like God, KNOWING good and bad.”
Source(s): Does it matter what the fruit was - Anonymous1 decade ago
The tree of KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL is the 10 commandments.
Solomon decided to live by it as Moses did after God told them not to in the book of Geneses.
RELIGION originated the idea of APPLE SEED to embed it into children's mind for easier manipulation.
Jesus says to HATE the ones that force you into ANY RELIGION in Luke 14:26.
They teach children to go into CRAFTED temples that God plainly says He does not dwell in (Acts 17:24) so they can become thieves of the ROBBERS DENS.
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Medieval art, since know one knew what kind of fruit it was painters were left to their own devices and apples are very recognizable and easy to paint. In an illiterate society visual images take hold in a hurry, that's one of the reasons Churches used them, and that one took on a life of it's own.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
The forbidden fruit is unknown at this time. No one knows what It was.
- Christian SinnerLv 71 decade ago
I'm not sure, but I think it has to do with the Latin language.
Malus is the botanical name for Apple.
Pronounced "Malice". as in evil intentions.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
the bible has too much metaphor to know anything it says will make sense.
