Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.www.rutgers.eduexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.www.rutgers.eduDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squareAurenkin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoAlso God kinda lied to them or at least deceived them by saying they’ll die if they eat the fruit from memory.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoHe was saying they would grow old and die rather than living forever.
minus-squareAurenkin@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month ago but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Source Sounds like a lie to me but I don’t know the original Hebrew so maybe it depends on your translation. To be fair it would be on the mild side of morally objectionable stuff God does in the bible.
Also God kinda lied to them or at least deceived them by saying they’ll die if they eat the fruit from memory.
He was saying they would grow old and die rather than living forever.
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Sounds like a lie to me but I don’t know the original Hebrew so maybe it depends on your translation. To be fair it would be on the mild side of morally objectionable stuff God does in the bible.