What WAS that Forbidden Fruit that Eve found so irresistible?

2008-01-05
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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

    Since the forbidden fruit gave them knowledge of good and evil, and since I’ve never heard of a magic plant granting instant knowledge, I would say that friut and/or tree no longer exists.

    Although I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

  • Joi

    vGenesis 2:16-17 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

    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.

  • daveinga

    IMHo it was blackberries.

    going naked into a blackberry patch would make any human (man or woman) speak words only the devil could relate to.

  • amfortas

    Denise, what’s all this drooling over bananas? They are not a bit like tongues.

    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.

  • Squiggy

    The serpent told her it would make her “like God”. I’m pretty sure that was the temptation, not what the fruit tasted like.

  • http://mensnewsdaily.com/author/denise-noe/ Denise Noe

    Squiggy 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.

  • http://www.decriminalizefatherhood.com DcFather

    Umm, well, I’ve always thought the forbidden fruit referred to partaking in sex, but not exactly in the way Denise has on her mind today.

  • wtexas

    I don’t know about you Denise, but my penis is not bright yellow.

    Could the forbidden fruit refer to a footlong polish sausage. Didn’t they have that back then?

  • DBeatham

    Around the world the banana is considered the forbidden fruit. However in the English Bible they thought it was too phallic suggestive and changed it to the apple. Much like what Denise talks about.
    PS: Denise, I like the way you think.

  • DBeatham

    Eating the seeds (Sin) and partaking of sex can still be the same area of understanding. Just make sure you understand Union Sex. It is the same understanding of Union sought by the Yogi's. Same concept.

  • preacher101

    the reason i believe that the forbidden friut is sex is because adam had a wife named lilith who was his first wife an d they had a fight about who was going to be on top and this upset lilith because they were made equal and adam wanted to be in charge so she left him and god made a second wife from his rib and told her to submit to adam and the serpent decided to trick eve who did not know about sex and told here if you touch this friut talking about adams genitals you want surley die you will become as god because the bible says be fruitful and multiply thats how i know it was sex now think about it

  • steve deluca

    Did the Hawaiians once put women to death for eating bannanas or is that just an old wives tale. It’s nice to hear Denise admit that “some” women like “one” in their mouth. When we hear of oral sex with a woman it’s “eating” like dinning for pleasure, eating out… but hand job and blow job seem to be terms hookers might have used in reference to the act and money. Job implies work and not enjoyment. Feminist are very fussy about what words mean if they think those words make women look “less than” men. However, they rarely notice how words might make men look “less than” women.

    Thanks Denise for sharing.

    SD






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