Did Adam and Eve eat the apple in the Garden of Eden?
Question: Did Adam and Eve eat the apple in the Garden of Eden? Answer: No, an apple is not mentioned in Genesis. (17)But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.(Genesis 2:17) God did not want man to acquire knowledge suddenly as sudden knowledge can be very overwhelming. Perhaps man was meant to acquire knowledge slowly through trial and error. In Al-Quran: [20:120] But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, “O Adam! shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?” In the Hebrew Bible, Hasatan is not found in Genesis. Hasatan first appears in the Book of Job and is nothing more than an angel who serves as man’s adversary or accuser (God’s prosecuting attorney?) It is the Christian interpretation of the creation story that includes a *devil* with powers equal to God’s power. Christians have borrowed from the Hebrew Bible while Muslims have borrowed fro
