Why did Adam and Eve eat the apple?

The Old Testament tells of Adam and Eve, our progenitors. They lived in paradise in total innocence until the serpent (the devil) enticed them to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. As punishment for their disobedience, God banished them from Paradise.
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What happened when Eve ate the apple?

Eve picked the forbidden fruit and ate it. Adam was with her and he ate it, too. Their eyes were opened and their innocence, lost. They ran from God and His presence soon after, and were expelled from the garden, paradise lost.
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Why did Adam give Eve the apple?

However, a serpent convinces Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree, and she gives some of the fruit to Adam. These acts not only give them additional knowledge, but it gives them the ability to conjure negative and destructive concepts such as shame and evil. God later curses the serpent and the ground.
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What did the forbidden fruit represent?

Abstract. Forbidden fruit symbolizes a lie. Lies are usually very sweet, but toxic for human mind. Truth, on the other hand, can be very bitter, but it is always liberating.
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Did Eve go heaven?

But how can they be saved to heaven if they disobeyed God? With this line of reasoning, though, every believer would be excluded from passing through heaven's gate. Adam and Eve were sinners, as are each one of us. If Adam and Eve are excluded from heaven, so are every one of us.
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THE STORY OF ADAM



Why does the forbidden fruit always taste the sweetest?

The origin of this phrase comes from the Bible when God told Adam not to have a particular fruit, an apple. Adam and Eve were convinced by Satan that the fruit is the sweetest and they must try it. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Gardens of Heaven upon having tasted this forbidden fruit.
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Why did Adam eat the forbidden fruit?

Theology refers to this incident as the 'fall of man' as, against God's will, he ate the fruit that allowed him to distinguish good from evil.
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Did God know Adam and Eve would sin?

Yes, God knew Adam and Eve would sin before he created them. Isaiah quoted a statement from the Lord to show us: “I am God, and there is none like me. I declare from the beginning how it will end and foretell from the start what has not yet happened.
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What is Jesus real birthday?

By the fourth century, however, we find references to two dates that were widely recognized — and now also celebrated — as Jesus' birthday: December 25 in the western Roman Empire and January 6 in the East (especially in Egypt and Asia Minor).
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How did Adam and Eve feel after eating the fruit?

Adam and Eve's Separation from God

Their physical condition changed as a result of their eating the forbidden fruit. As God had promised, they became mortal. They and their children would experience sickness, pain, and physical death. Because of their transgression, Adam and Eve also suffered spiritual death.
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Does the Garden of Eden still exist?

Does the Garden of Eden still exist? If the Garden of Eden still exists, no one knows where. The Bible says a river ran from Eden and separated into four rivers: Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, and Euphrates.
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What is the message of the story of Adam and Eve?

Adam and Eve left paradise to seek progression. Because they ate the fruit, we all have the opportunity to be born on the earth and to learn and progress. We all can learn the difference between good and evil, experience joy, and grow and become better. We will also all experience sadness and, eventually, death.
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What is Jesus real name?

Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
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How old is Jesus now?

The current year of the birth of Jesus is 2021 AD. It means that on this Christmas, Jesus will be two thousand and twenty-one years old.
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How old were Joseph and Mary when Jesus was born?

However, now we believe that Mary and Joseph were both in their teens when Jesus was born, around sixteen and eighteen respectively. This was the norm for Jewish newlyweds at that time.
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What was Eve's purpose?

As stated in the Bible, Adam and Eve were created by God to take care of His creation, to populate the earth, and to have a relationship with Him.
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Why did God create us?

Because Heavenly Father wanted us to have the chance to progress and become like Him, He created our spirits, and He provided a plan of salvation and happiness that necessarily includes this earthly experience.
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Why did God let Adam and Eve fall?

God knew before the earth was ever created that it would be necessary for Adam and Eve to fall so they “would have seed.” Thus, even before the earth was created, Jesus Christ had agreed that he would pay the penalty required by the law of justice for the transgression of the law that resulted in the fall of Adam and ...
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Who did Adam blame for his sin?

The Pope has finally declared that Adam was wrong to blame Eve for his sin — Quartz.
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How did the forbidden fruit taste?

Rabbi Yehuda proposes that the fruit was wheat, because "a baby does not know to call its mother and father until it tastes the taste of grain." In Hebrew, wheat is "khitah", which has been considered to be a pun on "khet", meaning "sin".
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What is the meaning of fruit is sweet?

Something that one desires but cannot or should not have. A reference to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve and the fruit that God forbade them to eat in the Garden of Eden. Since forbidden fruit is the sweetest, I couldn't stop myself from taking a piece of the cake my mom had specifically made for work.
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Did Jesus have a wife?

"Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married, even though no reliable historical evidence exists to support that claim," King said in a press release.
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What language did Adam and Eve speak?

The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
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Who Wrote the Bible?

Even after nearly 2,000 years of its existence, and centuries of investigation by biblical scholars, we still don't know with certainty who wrote its various texts, when they were written or under what circumstances.
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What is the moral of the Garden of Eden?

The story of the Garden of Eden is a theological use of mythological themes to explain human progression from a state of innocence and bliss to the present human condition of knowledge of sin, misery, and death.
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