What is the forbidden fruit?

Question

Fig? Apple? If you go your entire life without eating it does it make you less "evil?"

Answer 1

durian

Answer 2

in the bible it doesn't say. quite frankly does it matter? i think the theory of evolution makes more sense. i think it is truly amazing that god made light on the third day (?) does this means he made the heavens in the dark?

Answer 3

It was the fruit of the tree that Adam and Eve were not to eat from.  No one has ever known what it was.  People tend to make it an apple.  And whatever it was, it was the fruit of that one tree only.  Any trees other than that one, with the same fruit is okay to eat from.

Answer 4

A tangelo maybe? And nah. You're just as evil either way ;)

Answer 5

Before they ate the fruit, Adam and Eve still existed in a perfect state. They had not sinned to that point, because they did not know the difference between good and evil. As someone stated, knowledge was the forbidden fruit. After the fall from the garden, we as their later descendants have the knowledge of good and evil. (Easy way to explain it is it became "hereditary") So it doesn't matter what we eat, it's not gonna change our state of goodness or evil.

They do sometimes refer to other things as "forbidden fruits", it basically means we just aren't supposed to do those things.

Answer 6

its a way of speaking : something that you want ( not literally a piece of fruit ) but what is forbidden.

For instance : suppose you like uhhmmm , little cute yellow ducks and you want todo something with them, something you really really want to do with the little ducks, but you can not do that because it is forbidden by law.

Answer 7

It's an apple I think. It's not really forbidden though. It was in the garden of eden but we can still eat them and not be evil.  

Answer 8

Knowledge was the forbidden fruit.  I guess the more you have, the more evil you accumulate.

Answer 9

Stay in school.

Answer 10

Knowledge

Answer 11

I believe the forbidden fruit was the apple that Eve was not suppose to eat.But she ate the apple anyway.(at the time of Adam and Eve). I think you can eat apple's now without being evil.

Answer 12

Mango

Answer 13

First of all, the "Forbidden Fruit" to which you refer is a myth.  No such thing ever existed, if you are referring to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which God told Adam and Eve not to eat from in the Garden of Eden.

If you buy into Christian theology, Adam and Eve were utterly "Innocent" before eating of that tree.  They did not understand the sexual implications of nakedness.  They had no evil thoughts.  They were utterly pure.  But that old serpent the Devil (MWAH HAHAHAHAHA!) TRICKED Them into eating the forbidden fruit, at which point Adam and Eve started having all sorts of nasty thoughts!

This brought about in them (apparently) some sort of genetic mutation which is a tendency to do EVIL which was subsequently passed on to all human beings, since we are alll the spawn of Adam and Eve's genetic material (if the Bible is to be interpreted literally.)  Therefore, it doesn't matter if you eat the forbidden fruit or not!  You are guilty merely by virtue of being the descendant of Adam and Eve!  Guilty, I say!  And everyone who does not repent and embrace Jesus Christ will burn in flaming h**l forever!!!!  FOREVER, I SAY!!!

Answer 14

Its not about the fruit...its about what God told them to do, Adam and Eve disobeyed God's command.  

Answer 15

idk maybe kiwi

Answer 16

No one knows exactly what kind of fruit it was but after Adam and Eve were thrown out of the garden it was sealed up and no one can get in so there is no way anyone else can eat it.  

Answer 17

The original "forbidden fruit" was the apple that Eve gave to Adam in the Garden of Eden.

Answer 18

The forbidden fruit was knowledge.  

Answer 19

The fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

And it is never stated what kind of fruit it is.  Nobody knows.

Answer 20

Don't know. No.

Answer 21

The story keeps changing....you'd do best to avoid all fruits.

Answer 22

You can eat figs and apples, they are not from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That tree is in the garden of eden and no man can go there now. Adam and Eve already sinned by eating it's fruit, that's when sin and death entered the world.

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Gen 2:9   And the Lord God planted all sorts of trees in the garden-beautiful trees that produced delicious fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  

Gen 2:15   The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it.  

Gen 2:16   But the Lord God gave him this warning: "You may freely eat any fruit in the garden  

Gen 2:17   except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of its fruit, you will surely die."  

Gen 3:1   Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the creatures the Lord God had made. "Really?" he asked the woman. "Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?"  

Gen 3:2   "Of course we may eat it," the woman told him.  

Gen 3:3   "It's only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat it or even touch it, or we will die."  

Gen 3:4   "You won't die!" the serpent hissed.  

Gen 3:5   "God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it. You will become just like God, knowing everything, both good and evil."  

Gen 3:6   The woman was convinced. The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. Then he ate it, too.  

Gen 3:7   At that moment, their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they strung fig leaves together around their hips to cover themselves.  

Gen 3:8   Toward evening they heard the Lord God walking about in the garden, so they hid themselves among the trees.  

Gen 3:9   The Lord God called to Adam,[fn1] "Where are you?"  

Gen 3:10   He replied, "I heard you, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked."  

Gen 3:11   "Who told you that you were naked?" the Lord God asked. "Have you eaten the fruit I commanded you not to eat?"  

Gen 3:12   "Yes," Adam admitted, "but it was the woman you gave me who brought me the fruit, and I ate it."  

Gen 3:13   Then the Lord God asked the woman, "How could you do such a thing?" "The serpent tricked me," she replied. "That's why I ate it."  

Gen 3:14   So the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be punished. You are singled out from all the domestic and wild animals of the whole earth to be cursed. You will grovel in the dust as long as you live, crawling along on your belly.  

Gen 3:15   From now on, you and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her offspring will be enemies. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."  

Gen 3:16   Then he said to the woman, "You will bear children with intense pain and suffering. And though your desire will be for your husband,[fn2] he will be your master."  

Gen 3:17   And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.  

Gen 3:18   It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.  

Gen 3:19   All your life you will sweat to produce food, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from dust, and to the dust you will return."  

Gen 3:20   Then Adam named his wife Eve,[fn3] because she would be the mother of all people everywhere.  

Gen 3:21   And the Lord God made clothing from animal skins for Adam and his wife.  

Gen 3:22   Then the Lord God said, "The people have become as we are, knowing everything, both good and evil. What if they eat the fruit of the tree of life? Then they will live forever!"  

Gen 3:23   So the Lord God banished Adam and his wife from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.  

Gen 3:24   After banishing them from the garden, the Lord God stationed mighty angelic beings[fn4] to the east of Eden. And a flaming sword flashed back and forth, guarding the way to the tree of life

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Knowledge was not the forbidden fruit, it was the knowledge of good and evil.