The Forbidden Fruit
Using Common Sense
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Stop! He shouted, as he dashed toward her with the speed of an Olympic sprinter. Eve, please drop it! Nevertheless, he was to late, already the deliciously intoxicating flavor began to spread from her taste buds to the very being of her soul itself. He closed his eyes, not wanting to see the inevitable. What appeared to be an eternity he stood there wondering how could she perform such a horrible act. Slowly he opened his eyes, and could not believe what he was seeing. Not only was she standing reaching out to him, but also the smile on her face was as overpowering as the fruit she had consumed moments earlier.
The beauty in front of him had sealed the fate of Adam, but it was impossible to resist the perfection revealed within the outstretched arms of Eve. As the sky began to darken, and thunderous claps of lighting flickered in the distance, they savored together the forbidden fruit.
A scene from a movie? No, but many feel paradise could have been lost in some similar fashion. The bible helps this assumption by the way God gives a no nonsense command in the book of Genesis to stay away from the fruit or die. Adam plainly understood what God said when he was told eat from every tree, “except for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam do not eat from that tree: because in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.”
So, who could blame Adam for expecting poor Eve to drop dead on the spot after eating the forbidden fruit? Adam having learned to believe God to be a spirit of truth had no reason to doubt
To get Adam and Eve to talk to him opened the door for all the evil he practiced to become a part of them. They first had to disobey God’s word, and speak to Satan before evil could begin to take hold in their lives. Because God had told them to stay away from Satan, by disobeying God Adam and Eve had become like Satan, knowing good and evil. Like Satan they knew the different between good and evil and could make a choice which act to perform. Satan knew he was off limits to Adam and Eve, but he chose to rebel against God and make his knowledge accessible to them. Adam and Eve knew not to touch or eat from the tree of knowledge, but Eve chose to disobey God, and by doing so brought Adam into disobedience also. By listening to the words of Satan, they had eaten the fruit, or let the seeds of mutiny which grew in Satan become a part of them.
Evil is not a part of God. When someone does evil, they are doing what is a part of Satan, so the good that a person knows to do, sometimes give way to the evil that is now a part of all humanity. All because Adam and Eve let the serpent bud the good of God with the good and evil parts of Satan.
God knew this would happen. That is why he told Adam and Eve to stay away from Satan. God knew that once you have a choice of which way to turn, frequently the situations people are faced with determines the path a person will follow.
Some people may say, that’s all well and good, but the eating of the fruit happened thousands of years ago. Since we now know whom the fruit came.
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This short book will answer a question that many people have in their minds. A question as old as the time when man was driven from the garden of Eden. Many have given, or tried to answer the question in numerous ways. But always there seemed to be something missing in the final answer. However, if you will approach the text with an open mind, the question “What is the forbidden fruit”? may at last be answered to your satisfaction.
Can we say it does not matter what the forbidden fruit was, or is ? Maybe, maybe not. You decide after reading the book.