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1 | Forbidden fruit represents sex? | Gen 3:1 | reilly1041 | 87883 | ||
My mother-in-law (Roman Catholic) believes that in the story of the fall, the forbidden fruit represents intercourse between Adam and Eve. She says that original sin and the fall of man wouldn't have occurred just by "eating some fruit". I told her man's fall occurred because they disobeyed God, by eating the fruit. I couldn't convince her, I told her that there was nothing in the text that would indicate that the fruit represented anything other than the fruit. She apparently learned this in Catholic grade school 50 years ago. Does anyone else hold to this view? Am I right to read this story literally? Emmaus - I tried to check the Catechism, but couldn't find anything in there (but I'm not that good at finding my way through that beast), do you know if this is Catholic doctrine? Thanks, reilly |
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2 | Forbidden fruit represents sex? | Gen 3:1 | Morant61 | 87885 | ||
Greeting Reilly! Show your mother-in-law Gen. 2:16-17: "And the LORD God commanded the man, 'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.'" If her interpretation of the 'fruit' being 'sex' is correct, then God was telling Adam and Eve that it was okay to have sex with anyone else other than their spouse! ;-) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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