Did Adam and Eve eat a fig?

Answer 1

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It can be assumed since they covered themselves in fig leaves, but it is never made certain. We can know for certain what fruit Adam & Eve ate.

Gen.3:7 tells us what the fruit was that Adam & Eve ate after they eat the fruit they cover with fig leaves. Therefore if they cover w/ fig leaves that means they ate a fig. Fig leaves grow on a fig tree if a tree has fig leaves the tree will grow fig leaves. Adam & Eve ate a fig not an apple.

Answer 2

Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This was not a fruit known to us, such as a fig, but was knowledge - the knowledge of good and evil. By eating this fruit, Eve and Adam became like gods (Genesis 3:22: "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us..."), but had also become aware of their mortality. Knowing that they would now be tempted to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life and gain immortality, God drove them from the Garden of Eden and placed cherubim (sing: cherub) and a flaming sword at the entrance to keep [block] the way of the Tree of Life. This story is an allegory and the fruit was symbolic of man's yearning for immortality.