The Bible never tells us what the Forbidden Fruit was. We only know that, after some prodding by the infamous serpent, Eve gave into the temptation to eat it even though she had been told that the consequences of doing so would be death.
Despite the Biblical silence on the question of what the fruit was, it is popularly thought to have been an apple. I would like to suggest what I think is a far better candidate: the banana. After all, this fruit bears a far stronger resemblance than an apple does to something that we ladies – at least those of us with a heterosexual bent – often like to have in our mouths.
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wtexas said,
Although I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
January 5, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Joi said,
What it exactly was is unknown. Scripture does not illuminate on this point. Only that one would obtain the knowledge of good and evil by partaking of it. In so doing spiritual death would follow, and did. From this point onward God tirelessly attempts to re-establish his relationship with man.
God who could create heaven and earth and everything in it, wanted a “willing” being to love him. The angels in heaven have neither a free will to follow or love God, nor do they have saving grace. An fallen angel can never redeem his relationship with God not so for man. Hence, the angels in heaven look at man perplexed, as well as continually learning.
January 5, 2008 at 6:29 pm
daveinga said,
going naked into a blackberry patch would make any human (man or woman) speak words only the devil could relate to.
January 5, 2008 at 6:46 pm
amfortas said,
I have some question marks over some of God’s mysterious ways. Joi may give an explanation of some plausibility (as long as you can swallow the angels accompanyment) regarding ‘willingness’, but some other small task could have been set - like hide and seek, for instance - which didn’t involve a long drawn-out death.
God ‘could’ have gone to Brazil and shouted ‘Ready’, in a loud voice, and set the human race off on its journey. Spreading out was bound to happen some time after all - wasn’t that the idea? Or did He have just two humans in mind for the rest of eternity, sitting in the garden. If He wanted garden gmomes he would have started with me, shirley?
But no, He has to have a temptation for Adam, knowing full well that Eve would try to upstage the poor sap out of gender envy. She was already mouthing the epithet - “Men !!” ™. “I can Fall just as well as any man can. Better probably!”, she’d be thinking. And an omnipotent God would have known just what was going to happen, shirley? Maybe that obtuseness was behind spiders too.
But OK, let’s go along with the fruit. After all, Genesis did get the void right and chaos, and got the light coming before most everything else. Odds are there is something in the fruit thing. It was the fruit of the Gods (well the One God) after all. I go for pomegranates myself. Picking the seeds out of them drives anyone nuts. And He sure was nuts giving Eve just that ‘edge’ of contrariness to start with.
Pass the figs Denise.
January 5, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Squiggy said,
January 6, 2008 at 6:09 am
Denise Noe said,
The serpent told her it would make her “like God”. I’m pretty sure that was the temptation, not what the fruit tasted like.
(Denise) Of course it wasn’t what the fruit tasted like. She hadn’t tasted it before so she didn’t know what it tasted like. My point is that the banana could have a special draw for heterosexual women because of what it LOOKS like and so could have been the fruit that tempted Eve.
January 6, 2008 at 7:04 am
DcFather said,
January 6, 2008 at 7:37 pm
wtexas said,
Could the forbidden fruit refer to a footlong polish sausage. Didn’t they have that back then?
January 6, 2008 at 8:35 pm