Something that came up during our discussion on assumptions about the Bible was that it had never occurred to me that the forbidden fruit that Adam and Eve ate was never explicitly stated to be an apple, nor was the serpent explicitly stated to be Satan. If you google “Adam and Eve” and search by image, the artwork depicting Adam and Eve had them eating a fruit that resembles an apple. And depending on which piece of art you look at; the serpent is either a regular snake or a four-legged reptile with a human head. The interpretations that show the reptile with a human head, the head has horns, which is a defining attribute to the devil. I was always told that the serpent was the devil, and the fruit Adam and Eve ate was an apple, but this is not the case (even though my parents went through a lot of trouble to make the Bible a pivotal part of my life, I’ve not read much of it, nor was my religiously based upbringing centered around actually reading the Bible). Now that I think about it, most of what I understand the Bible to be has been what other people have said (pastor, priest, parent, etc.).
Categories