In the Middle Ages and modern times, an apple represents overcoming original sin, often depicted as a snake with an apple in its mouth — as in English Greeting by Veit Stoss Lorenzkirche, Nuremberg. Depictions of the Madonna also often include an apple, since Mary, as the new Eve , symbolises overcoming sin. Home Eve and the forbidden fruit.
Sources: Buch Genesis, zit. I , Sp. More on this topic. Then Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and God had no choice but to expel them,. If Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree of eternal life, they would have no reason to procreate through sex because they would never need to replace themselves in the world through sex.
The command that sex is holy is the first command uttered by God to man in Genesis ,. Yes, sex is tied to procreation, but it is clearly holy and both a gift and a commandment from God. In fact, in Genesis God gives the same command of "be fruitful and multiply" to the animals. The conflict over sex occurs later in the history of Judeo-Christian interpretations of the biblical text. For Christians who were influenced by the Greek world, matter the body was of lower importance than form the soul.
Since sex is a bodily pleasure it was considered by certain Christian interpreters to be a lower pleasure than the purely spiritual pleasures of the soul. This produced a more favorable view of celibacy in Christianity. Eden in itself was designed for full relationship without separation from God. The Lord came and spoke with Adam, and He was present in the garden with the couple.
God gave humanity the gift of free will, which is something true relationship requires. So Adam and Eve were given the choice to choose God, to love Him, to trust Him, and be satisfied in life with Him by refusing the fruit.
God in His sovereignty knew the choice Adam and Eve would make, but it was their choice to make. The Lord in His love wanted His best for Adam and Eve, so He instructed them not to consume the fruit, not to fall into sin. In Genesis 3 the temptation unfolds, led by Satan who embodied a serpent. In Gen. And when Eve responded to the question she added an element that was not part of God's original command.
Eve responded to the serpent, saying they had been told they could eat of any tree in the garden but not the tree in the middle of the garden, reciting " It could be she thought touching it would be just as bad an action, or maybe as Simon Turpin, contributor for answersingenesis. If he says not to do something, then it is for our good. Get out of here!
Now, as a result of the deception, Eve has doubt in her mind and has fallen into unbelief. In fact, this perversion will affect all human hearts in existence after them. Ligonier Ministries explains,. However, as he is wont to do, the serpent never gave Eve the whole truth. Or maybe, some rabbis wrote, it was wheat, because the Hebrew word for wheat, "chitah," is similar to the word for sin, "cheit," Zivotofsky said.
Grapes, or wine made from grapes, are another possibility. Finally, the rabbis wrote that it might have been a citron , or "etrog" in Hebrew — a bittersweet, lemon-like fruit used during the Jewish fall festival of Sukkot, a harvest celebration in which Jews erect temporary dwellings.
Given all of these potential forbidden fruits, how did apples — which aren't even from the Middle East, but from Kazakhstan in Central Asia, according to a study in the journal Nature Communications — become the predominant interpretation? It turns out this interpretation likely didn't originate in Jewish lore, Zibotofsky said. Instead, the possible path from fruit to apple began in Rome in A. But it was a generic term [for fruit] as well," Appelbaum told Live Science.
Apple had this generic meaning until the 17th century, according to the Online Etymological Dictionary. Jerome likely chose the word "malum" to mean fruit, because the very same word can also mean evil, Appelbaum said.
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