When a fruit isn't an apple...

[gnostic]

In Genesis 2 & 3, the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil are known to be fruit-bearing trees, but it was never given as to what type of fruits these 2 trees bore.

All we are told is that the trees were planted in the middle of Garden of Eden, and that the fruit look good to eat:

Originally Posted by 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. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

The most common misconception about the forbidden fruit is that they were apples.

Where or when did misconception (apples) originated from?

Why do people assume it was apple that Eve ate?

One thing is certain, eating apples since I was young, didn't give me knowledge about good or bad.

[Skwim]

See any bananas here?

[Vendetta]

Pomagranate maybe?

[MissAlice]

I fail to see what the misconception is. Everyone knows apples make you do evil things.

[Mestemia]

Originally Posted by gnostic

In Genesis 2 & 3, the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil are known to be fruit-bearing trees, but it was never given as to what type of fruits these 2 trees bore.

All we are told is that the trees were planted in the middle of Garden of Eden, and that the fruit look good to eat:



The most common misconception about the forbidden fruit is that they were apples.

Where or when did misconception (apples) originated from?

Why do people assume it was apple that Eve ate?

One thing is certain, eating apples since I was young, didn't give me knowledge about good or bad.

Early Christian scholars often took the forbidden fruit to be an apple, possibly because of the irresistible pun suggested by the Latin malum, which means both "apple" and "evil." At least one early Latin translation of the bible uses "apple" instead of "fruit." A contributing factor no doubt was that apples were a lot more popular in Europe than in the Middle East, where it's generally too hot for them to thrive.

Source

Seems to me that the "forbidden fruit", if it is an actual fruit and not a metaphor, would likely be a fig.
The reason I say fig?
Cause later in the story they made clothes of fig leaves.

[Mestemia]

Originally Posted by Skwim

See any bananas here?

Could be...
Though with the fig leaves over his lap and his copping a feel...

[gnostic]

Originally Posted by mestemia

Seems to me that the "forbidden fruit", if it is an actual fruit and not a metaphor, would likely be a fig.
The reason I say fig?
Cause later in the story they made clothes of fig leaves.

That what I thought too.

[Thief]

Originally Posted by gnostic

In Genesis 2 & 3, the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil are known to be fruit-bearing trees, but it was never given as to what type of fruits these 2 trees bore.

All we are told is that the trees were planted in the middle of Garden of Eden, and that the fruit look good to eat:



The most common misconception about the forbidden fruit is that they were apples.

Where or when did misconception (apples) originated from?

Why do people assume it was apple that Eve ate?

One thing is certain, eating apples since I was young, didn't give me knowledge about good or bad.

The most common misconception about Genesis comes from the tendency to call the entire story a myth.

The Garden event happened.

Some of the details are told in metaphor.

Apples?....fruit?....

The tree of knowledge is a metaphor.
Learn one concept...knowing good as opposed to evil....
and then the knowledge branches quickly in every direction.

[gnostic]

I recalled in the book of Enoch that when Enoch visited heaven, he saw Eden and the Tree of Knowledge. So I went back to look it up.

Originally Posted by 1 Enoch 32:3-6

3. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, and saw beyond those trees many large trees growing there and of goodly fragrance, large, very beautiful and glorious, and the tree of wisdom whereof they eat and know great wisdom.
4. That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are like (those of) the Carob tree: and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. 5. Then I said: 'How beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!' 6. Then Raphael the holy angel, who was with me, answered me and said: 'This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old (in years) and thy aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they were driven out of the garden.'

It would seem that the tree had the height of fir, and leaves that of Carob tree.

What is a Carob tree? I don't know. Never heard of it, except in this Enochian text.

And it described the fruit as being "clusters of vine", so it must be like grapes.

[Skwim]

Originally Posted by gnostic

I recalled in the book of Enoch that when Enoch visited heaven, he saw Eden and the Tree of Knowledge. So I went back to look it up.



It would seem that the tree had the height of fir,

Fairly tall tree, the fir:

and leaves that of Carob tree.

Leaves of the carob tree.

What is a Carob tree?

"Ceratonia siliqua, commonly known as the Carob tree and St. John's-bread, is a species of flowering evergreen shrub or tree in the pea family, Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated for its edible legume beans, and as an ornamental tree in gardens.
It is native to: the Mediterranean region including Southern Europe, Northern Africa, the larger Mediterranean islands; to the Levant and Middle-East of Western Asia into Iran; and to the Canary Islands and Macaronesia.


Source: Wikipedia

And it described the fruit as being "clusters of vine", so it must be like grapes.

So far there's no tree I know of that fits all these traits.