7/2/2023 0 Comments Forbidden passion fruit![]() ![]() This was not physical death, but spiritual death that caused a separation between God and man because of sin.Īdam and Eve were kicked out of the garden. The result of eating the forbidden fruit was sin entering the world and all the pain and suffering that happens as a result. What Was the Result of the Forbidden Fruit? The problem is that this is an empty promise and the consequences never live up to the expectations. So what is it about sin that looks so attractive to us? It promises something that we have not experienced or something that we can gain from it. God has provided everything we need for this life, just as he did with Adam and Eve. Often this is how sin works in our lives. She ate the fruit because it promised her something she did not have and wanted to gain or experience. There were plenty of other trees that had those characteristics. I don’t believe Eve ate the fruit simply because it was edible and looked good. The fruit was good for food, pleasing to the eye and – here’s the difference – desirable for gaining wisdom. ![]() Remember what she said that highlights the difference. The serpent influenced her to believe that God was holding out something from her. What was different about the fruit on the tree of knowledge? She thought she would obtain something that the other trees did not provide her. In Genesis 2:9 and Genesis 3:6 you see that the trees were good for food (edible) and pleasing to the eye (attractive). I want you to consider the similarities between the fruit on all the trees in the garden. To keep it simple, Eve rejected what God had provided in search of something else or something different. I want to show you what happened to Eve because this still plagues us today. Eve fell victim to temptation in much the same way we do. This is the question of the ages, but I don’t want to hate on Eve too much. We can choose to follow and obey or we can choose to go our own way. From the beginning until today God gives every human the same free will. God created man for intimacy and fellowship with him, but from the very beginning this was not a forced fellowship, it is a chosen fellowship. The other tree would produce death.Ī question that often comes to mind is why was the tree of knowledge in the garden to begin with? For many Bible scholars the main answer is about free will. The tree of life as it states gave life, particularly eternal life. The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There were however two important trees in the middle of the garden that were different from the rest. I don’t have proof of this, but it is a reasonable assumption. This is only my speculation, but I would say think of any fruit that grows on a tree and it was probably available in the garden. I would imagine that every type of tree bearing fruit was probably represented in the garden. God put them in the garden and provided them with plenty of choices of food to eat. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” ( Genesis 2:8-9). The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground - trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. ![]() “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden and there he put the man he had formed. When you read the creation story you discover from Genesis that there were plenty of trees in the garden. It should be on the act of disobedience that Adam and Eve committed. When you are reading the story, your focus should not be on what the forbidden fruit in Genesis was. In all honesty the type of fruit doesn’t matter. (Sorry apples you have been blamed for something that you may have had nothing to do with.) By the way these are the same trappings of sin that we are faced with today (more on that later).īecause there are so many different types of fruit that grow on a tree, there really is no way of knowing what type of fruit it really was. Finally, they thought it was desirable for gaining wisdom, which means they thought they would gain something from it. It was pleasing to the eye, which means it was attractive. It was good for food, meaning it was edible. Here is all we know about the forbidden fruit in Genesis. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it” ( Genesis 3:6). “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. To clear up any confusion, here is what Genesis actually says about the fruit. While we don’t know what that fruit was, somehow in many pictures and imageries an apple gets portrayed as that fruit. ![]()
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