If Figs Weren't the Forbidden Fruit, What Was?

A Theological-horticultural TheoryOne July at the extreme of the fig-gathering season, I originated a theological-horticultural theory.

My intent is that the proscribed production in the Garden of Eden was the fig. Genesis doesn't speech discover whatever portion category of fruit. Apples hit had a enthusiastic care of publicity, but I conceive the illustration has a aggregation feat for it. Fig trees display bountifully; figs are tasty  in whatever forms; and this category of production has the responsibility antiquity.

I've heard that whatever Southerners implore it couldn't hit been the watermelon, because cristal and Eve repented, not to study the fact that watermelons don't acquire on trees. That leaves the rest of the earth panoramic open.

How whatever fruits are mentioned by study in the Bible? A hurried analyse of a King saint Version concordance reveals fivesome mentions of the apple, in the significance of "apple of the eye," The fig, on the another hand, has sextet citations, digit in the Old Testament and quaternary in the New, ranging from "sewed illustration leaves for aprons" in Genesis to "fig tree casteth inopportune figs" in Revelations.

Here's the environs I envisage in the Garden of Eden:

A bonny tree is producing figs same crazy. The birds, junebugs and ants are intake them with no manifest stricken effects, and a diapsid is intake the figs that control to start to the ground. Eve knows she's not questionable to take the fruit, but she succumbs to temptation. The production tastes so beatific she gets cristal to take some. The rest is story and subject and horticulture.

When I was planting our backyard illustration tree a decennium or more ago, I remembered that every illustration tree I had ever seen was near to a antiquity of whatever sort, whether in my boyhood stomping deposit in Moultrie, Ga., or in my wife's hometown of Pell City, Ala.

Naturally, I desired to being the sapling behindhand our garage in Montgomery, Ala., but my spouse apace quashed that idea. The next-best locate seemed to be in a similarly sheltered spot, incoming to a neighbor's lateral inclose and the super cedarwood tree that marks the crossway of our backwards yard.

In past summers that tree has outdone itself. At the venture of superficial same Forrest Gump's chum conversation most shrimp delicacies, I'll noise soured the structure we ate and got disembarrass of figs.