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Esther
04-29-2012, 01:39 PM
I was thinking the other day about the tree of Knowledged that Eve decided to sample after being told to not do so.

Some have said the fruit was an Apple. I guess they took that thought from the old saying "an apple a day will keep the doctor away".

However, I have some different thoughts, and although none of us KNOW what the fruit was it is interesting to see different ideas and the reason behind them.

My first thought was it was a Fig tree because Adam and Eve used the fig leaves to cover themselves. Don't know if you have ever picked figs, but those are itchy trees at best.

My second thought was perhaps an Olive tree. Olives were used in the Tabernacle to make the oil for the lamps.

But my final thought was a Pomegranate tree. Reason: The High Priest wore the pomergranates on their robe. Solomon also had them in the design of his temple. Research is now saying Pomegranates are one of the healthiest fruit you can eat.

Now this thread is just for the fun of it, using our reasoning as to what we "think" COULD be the answer.

I can't wait to see your thoughts. :)

bbyrd009
04-29-2012, 01:45 PM
I used to wonder why A&E didn't eat from the tree of life, right after the tree of knowledge...

TGBTG
04-29-2012, 08:06 PM
I was thinking the other day about the tree of Life that Eve decided to sample after being told to not do so.

Some have said the fruit was an Apple. I guess they took that thought from the old saying "an apple a day will keep the doctor away".

However, I have some different thoughts, and although none of us KNOW what the fruit was it is interesting to see different ideas and the reason behind them.

My first thought was it was a Fig tree because Adam and Eve used the fig leaves to cover themselves. Don't know if you have ever picked figs, but those are itchy trees at best.

My second thought was perhaps an Olive tree. Olives were used in the Tabernacle to make the oil for the lamps.

But my final thought was a Pomegranate tree. Reason: The High Priest wore the pomergranates on their robe. Solomon also had them in the design of his temple. Research is now saying Pomegranates are one of the healthiest fruit you can eat.

Now this thread is just for the fun of it, using our reasoning as to what we "think" COULD be the answer.

I can't wait to see your thoughts. :)

You mean the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

Jay
04-29-2012, 09:32 PM
It was a cool crisp $100 bill.

Money no longer grows on trees and the love of it is the root of all evil.

Jermyn Davidson
04-29-2012, 09:35 PM
Maybe the fruit wasn't really something edible after all.
Maybe that account is a metaphor for something deeper the world has yet to decode!

RevDWW
04-29-2012, 09:36 PM
I used to wonder why A&E didn't eat from the tree of life, right after the tree of knowledge...
Perhaps a guilty conscience keeps you from having life.

Aquila
04-30-2012, 06:51 AM
I believe in the literal story. However, I do believe that each literal event had a deeper spiritual meaning. I don't know if we can know for sure what these given "fruit" were. However, here are my thoughts....

Adam and Eve were tempted, and gave into, eating from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil". Think about this, the serprent said that God was holding out on them because he knew that if they partook of it they would be "as gods knowing good and evil". The problem is... they were already like God, formed in his image and likeness from the beginning. The promise of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" was the ability to know... GOOD AND EVIL. In other words... what is right and what is wrong. Instead of living in childlike innocense with God, accepting that they were indeed already like God, and partaking of the tree of life and living forever... they reached out to know what was right and what was wrong. They reached out to... legalism. The moment they ate of the fruit, they knew that they were naked, felt shame, and tried to make aprons of leaves (works) to cover their nakedness. But as the story goes on we read that the Lord made coats of skins and clothed them. Only God can cover our shame. No amount of works (aprons) made of our own hands can make us righteous. Yet, our fallen nature has a propensity to seek to either dive headlong into sin... or seek to know right and wrong to appease God (legalism). So we have all the questions about standards, etc.

We have a similar choice. We have been born again and have partaken in Christ's nature. While we are not yet perfected, we must reckon ourselves to be righteous IN CHRIST alone. Not in accordance to our works. Yet Satan, the serpent, continues to call out to us about standards of right and wrong, claiming that we can make ourselves righteous and be like God according to our works. Legalism is an age old lie. One can live in an abiding Grace, partaking in that which brings eternal life.... or one can live according to the knowledge of good and evil, only to find themselves in desperate need of a covering.

I'll take grace... I'll take... Jesus Christ...the tree of life.

Esther
04-30-2012, 09:31 AM
You mean the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?

Yes

bbyrd009
04-30-2012, 10:02 AM
Perhaps a guilty conscience keeps you from having life.

Good point. But then, the tree is later guarded, so that they
can't get to it...this, and the fact that they covered their privates,
rather than their mouths (neither organ would have any particular
associations for them at that point) indicate to me that these trees are actually representative of actions, and maybe in time their conscience would be assuaded enough that they could then do the tree of life thing?

Otherwise, satan would have suggested it, wouldn't he?

Aquila, as to your post, I would say that they reached out to "humanism,"
or frontal lobes; which will of course result in legalism--
and it can be easy to forget here that God knew that
they would "eat." Amen to the rest.

Esther
05-03-2012, 09:17 AM
Ok no one has an opinion on what kind of fruit it "may" have been?

Bro. Robbins
05-03-2012, 09:36 AM
I personally do not believe it was any fruit that you will find in the world today. Fruit here doesn't mean, fruit... like, opposite of vegetable.... But fruit here means, byproduct. It is a "thing" that was produced by this tree... I do believe literally. It was something they could see, could touch, and evidently could eat... but I don't believe it resembled or was anything that we can put our hands on today.

Falla39
05-03-2012, 10:16 AM
Before the Law, they knew no sin. God's (Voice, Word) told them NOT to eat of the forbidden tree. Eve chose what she could see (physically). Adam ate also.

They were not given a right to the Tree of Life because of their choice to disobey. Is it not true that today many choose the forbidden, simply because it looks good to the eyes. It is fleshly, amd is forbidden. Mankind has not changed much, has it! The Law was given for transgression UNTIL the SEED (JESUS CHRIST) could come. The Law could NOT make anyone Righteous!

Could it be that in Rev. 21, that once again mankind was given another chance to choose the Tree of Life (Jesus Christ), the River of Life (Holy Spirit) and street of gold (Highway of Holiness)! Adam and Eve were offered Eternal Life, but they chose what they could SEE with their physical eyes. It's all in the PROMISE of THE FATHER! The Holy Ghost. (The River of Life). What are we hungry and thirsty for! Your LIFE, (Eternal or otherwise) depends on the choice we make!! O, Taste and SEE that the LORD IS GOOD!

The fruit Adam and Eve chose was something they could see with natural or physical eyes. But the Tree of Life was fruit they could not see because it requires faith to see SPIRITUAL things. Spiritual things can only be seen through eyes of faith (can't see them physically). And we must have the Holy Spirit to see through spiritual eyes. Things of the Spirit are HIDDEN from those who make the wrong choice. That is why they were FORBIDDEN to stay in the garden. They didn't know they were naked until after their disobedience.
Physical things are TEMPORARY. Spiritual things are Eternal! Everlasing!

Some thoughts!

Falla39

MissBrattified
05-03-2012, 10:31 AM
I personally do not believe it was any fruit that you will find in the world today. Fruit here doesn't mean, fruit... like, opposite of vegetable.... But fruit here means, byproduct. It is a "thing" that was produced by this tree... I do believe literally. It was something they could see, could touch, and evidently could eat... but I don't believe it resembled or was anything that we can put our hands on today.

I tend to agree. Whatever was produced by the tree of life and the tree of knowledge was unique to the garden and is not even remotely accessible today.

bbyrd009
05-03-2012, 02:04 PM
Ok no one has an opinion on what kind of fruit it "may" have been?

You are aware of the "demon seed" doctrine, that the fruit of the tree was Eve having sex with the serpent--in his "pre-curse" form (he got cursed right after)--resulting in Cain? Many believe this is the "man" referred to in the sixth day, creation, and "Ish," a different reference for man, came through Abel in an "eighth-day creation." I think I have that right. That "Man" in Scripture is referred to as either "Ish" or "Adam," and a..."Biblical" definition of "seed" in the story makes this view compelling. The phrase "eth ha Adam" also is significant in this as a divider, seemingly--"eth ha Adam" signifies one of the two, forget which.