the apple?

[beam me up]

How do we really know that in the Bible the forbidden fruit adam and eve ate was an apple?

[heathfield]

No, we don't know. Genesis simply says 'fruit of the tree of knowledge'. Almost every fruit under the sun has been suggested, buy there's simply no way of knowing.

[Peter Pedant]

we don't
It's a story

[realllyswell]

If you look closely into myths and stories you see the apple portrayed a lot as an important fruit. Like in snow white where she goes into a coma from eating an apple. Or perhaps when the bibles were written apples were just a rare fruit considered to be "forbidden". We can't know.

[jno]

specifically, it's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which sounds more like a botanical metaphor than an actual plant. No mention of apples.

[shylock73]

And how do we know anything about "The Beginning?"Who was there to know how to write it all down? Baloney

[FairyObsesse]

The Bible was originaly writen in Greek. And in greek they used the word fruit. When it was translated the word apple was put in it's place. Because at the time the word apple was used to describe all fruit. it was only later on that other terms were used.
Thus, that is why "fruit" is somtimes confused with "apple"

[montag50158]

I suspect that it is seen in the popular imagination as an apple primarily because of bad art; apples are a common (and cheap) model used by artists.

[Gabbyfry91]

i heard it was a fig coz of the shape of the leaves they used to cover themselves up wiv once the descovered their nakedness

but i dont believe in the bible lol