What if Adam never ate the apple of Eden?

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Luther had thought it could have been Adam as much as it was Eve. He thought it was an example of human failure rather than just an example of woman's failure.

Luther was right. She didn't put a gun to Adam's head!

But the point I was making above was that the Bible doesnt actually say "apple". The apple meme is a recent convention because apples are the iconic fruit of the temperate zone.

I wouldn't have thought the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of good and bad would be like anything are familiar with today, there was only one and its fruit would have been different than any other fruit.
Imagine if it looked like any other fruit, an apple for instance, Adam is hungry and forgets, "oh look, an apple tree", "Sorry God, but why did you make it look just the same as the trees we can eat from"?

Like wise the tree of life, there would only have been one, and I don't think there are any trees in the modern world that bestow everlasting life.

Might very well be. Something distinct from other fruits, but still tempting looking (because God obviously wanted them to succumb to temptation).

It was in high school when I first thought about it- when an English teacher asked us all "how do you know it was an apple?", and pointed out that the Bible never actually calls it an apple.

He also said that the artists of the Middle Ages painted it as "golden glowing thing" because "knowledge is golden". Not as an apple.

If Adam never ate the apple of Eden he would go bananas... Obviously.

If he had never eaten the apple he would have gone bananas!

Lol!

That's about the size of it.