{"id":13391,"date":"2007-12-16T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=13391"},"modified":"2019-10-18T19:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T00:34:21","slug":"is-the-devil-the-apple-that-adam-and-eve-ate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-the-devil-the-apple-that-adam-and-eve-ate\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Devil the apple that Adam and Eve ate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>So is the Devil the apple that Adam and Eve ate?<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>First, the Bible doesn&#8217;t say Adam and Eve ate an apple. That is an old myth from the days when people assumed that red fruits were poisonous. The tree was a unique tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Other than the fact that it was a fruit-bearing tree, we know little else about it. &#8220;<em>And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, &#8220;Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die&#8221;<\/em>&#8221; (Genesis 2:16-17).<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Bible is quite clear that the Devil appeared in the form of a serpent to tempt Eve.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, &#8220;Has God indeed said, &#8216;You shall not eat of every tree of the garden&#8217;?<\/em>&#8220;&#8221; (Genesis 3:1).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ<\/em>&#8221; (II Corinthians 11:3).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it<\/em>&#8221; (John 8:44).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him<\/em>&#8221; (Revelation 12:9).<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years<\/em>&#8221; (Revelation 20:2).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: So is the Devil the apple that Adam and Eve ate? Answer: First, the Bible doesn&#8217;t say Adam and Eve ate an apple. That is an old myth from the days when people assumed that red fruits were poisonous. The tree was a unique tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[217,302,488,235],"class_list":["post-13391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-adam","tag-creation","tag-eve","tag-satan"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21641,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-eve-commit-adultery-with-the-serpent\/","url_meta":{"origin":13391,"position":0},"title":"Did Eve commit adultery with the serpent?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Is it true that Eve committed adultery with the serpent? 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