Bible Question: What is this fruit which eve partook of, and shared with Adam?? If life is created for GOD in GODS purposes, could this fruit be a bringing forth of life apart from GODS desire: fornication?? If men totally seperate from GOD are simply beasts of the highest order, is it possible that the serpent was a man(must subtile beast) who had illecit sexual relations with Eve, which she then took to Adam?? What do you think, and what scriptures deny, or uphold this possibility?? |
Bible Answer: Greetings Paulfromnys! Genesis 3:1-7 is referring to a tangible fruit on a tree, not a symbolic fruit of fornication. It had to be tangible so that she could be ordered not to "touch" it (v.3), or eat it (v.3,6). But they did eat of the fruit and their eyes were opened. If the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were symbolic, then how do explain the tree of Life in Genesis 2:9 and Revelation 22:2,14. I believe that these are literal trees. If that is so, then Adam and Eve ate of "literal" fruit as well! Moreover, it was a "serpent" that deceived Eve (2 Cor. 11:3), not a man. And the NT does not allude to any possibility other than the fact that Adam and Eve were deceived by eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (1 Tim. 2:13,14). Adam and Eve were the ONLY TWO HUMANS on earth at the time of the Garden of Eden. Blessings to you, Nolan |