Myths of the Bible: In The Garden of Eden
-Myths
Here are some Bible myths, that no one is sure where or when they did started to be taken as truth by many:
1) God forbode Adam to take the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Wrong. The Bible text reads:
“Genesis 2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:”
As you can see, there is no mention of any particular fruit at all.Actually, it was Eve who first mentioned that it was a fruit the object of the prohibition, in Genesis 3:2
“And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit
of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall
not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it”.
Why did she misquote God’s words? Because according Genesis
2, she wasn’t even created yet when the prohibition took
place!2) The forbidden fruit was the apple.
Wrong! It doesn’t matter how popular and extended this myth could be, there is no mention of any apples in the whole Book of Genesis.
Furthermore, the first time that an apple is mentioned in the
Bible is in the Book of Proverbs. So, where did Adam’s apple
history come from?3) Sex was involved in the fall of man and woman in the
Garden of Eden.Wrong. Eve was a virgin and stayed that way until Genesis 4, after both she and Adam were expelled from the Garden of Eden, when “Adam knew Eve his wife”.
Hmmm….
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