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.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hal-McCombs/100001473923464 Hal McCombs

    Please don’t post in a language you don’t really speak. It will sound like your post.

  • http://www.facebook.com/nbedeau1 A’Kilie Lxg Bedeau

    lets face it the bible has been tainted and rewritten to fool many,the forbidden fruit was the gift of reproduction,sex,why did you think he made eve sucumb to harsh pains during child birth?? lets not be stupid to hat mankind has redone tohave us all in a eggshell, and now i ill say,What are aliens,lets see how much of you have ask god to open you all eyes to the truth

  • thekid83

    Dining not Dinning stupid

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/UQMJGY3VYD2WU2TDDOZ3MU76HU Rebecca

    Okay seriously, why do you think that the penis was the forbidden fruit? God made sex to be beautiful NOT FORBIDDEN! Seriously, the forbidden fruit didn’t mean oral sex. God made other ways to have sex to pleasure the other gender. Also just to point out I’m talking about a man and a woman having sex.

    It’s funny that you think this. Maybe some of you don’t, and that’s good.  I think God would point out that it wasn’t a fruit. IT WAS A FRUIT!   

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/UQMJGY3VYD2WU2TDDOZ3MU76HU Rebecca

    Okay, dude you need to read that the first woman ever was Eve. Not Lilith. She is not even mentioned, your just adding something to the bible. 
    It says in Revelation 22:18
     For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of
    this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto
    him the plagues that are written in this book

    What I’m trying to say is if you ever try to make maybe a new NIV don’t put that in there

    Also why do you think this.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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