Early churchgoers were probably rolling in the aisles.But it was John Milton who really cemented the image when he called the forbidden fruit an apple twice in Evolution (or God) gave us big skulls and slim hips, so childbirth is extremely painful. By writing a myth that was theirs, a creation story of their very own, they were solidifying themselves as a people. They were making their own mythology. It seems like such a minor thing: Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? If you don't take the creation story literally, as many Christians and Jews don't, then it's not an issue.It's always important to remember that if you're reading the Bible in English, you're reading a translation. Not even close.Like many stories in the Bible, Genesis has elements that were borrowed from other cultures and The Hebrews (they weren't Jews yet) were in exile in Babylon, where they learned the But this doesn't mean the Hebrews' version isn't really important. Not a lot to go on.But the most commonly accepted location over the years has been Iraq. Is it even what the Bible actually says? Since God allegedly demanded that there be pain, taking it away was sacrilegious. So why is everyone so sure it's an apple? Many left Adam and Eve with completely smooth stomachs. Just as wise teachers test their students, God tested Adam and Eve in their obedience. Read more about the story of Adam and Eve, their lives in the Garden of Eden, how sin entered the world, and what the consequences were for disobeying God. But men said no because Eve's sin of eating the forbidden fruit meant women had to suffer.This theological argument resulted in a huge backlash when pain medication started being used during labor in the 1800s. They say that early humans lived for millions of years, then went extinct and God replaced them with Adam and Eve, who were special.There were lots of people throughout history who believed the Garden of Eden was a real place, and some of them set out to find it.
All rights reserved Christian scholars have long believed it was originally written as allegory and poetry more than history. Genesis 3 Adam gets lonely, so God makes him a partner, Eve, out of one of his ribs. Adam and Eve, now knowing that they had sinned, immediately felt ashamed and tried to hide from God. These days some evangelicals still embrace the theory to explain evolution and why things are so old when Adam and Eve were much more recent in Genesis. God said to Adam, I will see what can be done, because God really was a nice kind of person even if He had accidentally created a paradox. Thrown out of the Garden of Eden, they have to live in the crappy regular world, and we've all been punished for what they did since.But is that the whole story of Adam and Eve? Shocking no one, those inferior people were theorized to be the less white ones, and the idea was used to justify slavery. In English translations, it's just "the fruit" on "the tree." But they got it completely wrong. Adam and Eve were not ignorant of God’s boundaries.