[Brother_Percy]

Friends,

My daughter asked me earlier today "Daddy, why are we allowed to eat apples today, when Adam and Eve ate an apple 6,000 years ago and were thrown out of Eden for it?"

Naturally I explained to her that apples were NOT Forbidden Fruit, and that this had merely been a mistake in the translation of the word 'malum', which means 'evil', NOT 'apple'.

Potential forbidden fruits of the Garden of Eden include the pomegranate, the fig, the carob, the citron, the pear and the datura, which is why all of those are BANNED in our house.

However, many Baptists believe the Forbidden Fruit was actually a grape, which ties in with other verses where the fruit from the vine tree (ie. grapes) was forbidden.

There is only one fruit in the Bible that's forbidden anywhere in the Bible.

Numbers 6:3 says He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree.

Notice the vine is a tree. Vine tree--that's forbidden fruit.

Why is the vine tree for a Nazarite "forbidden fruit"? Well, the vine tree is obviously forbidden fruit because it's a type of blood. The vine tree, grape juice, represents blood.

Matthew 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament.

Then grape juice is a type of blood!.

So now, we know that a tree is forbidden, and grape juice is forbidden to the Nazarite; but, if grape juice is a type of blood, then blood should be forbidden. Let's turn to Genesis 9, and notice that blood is forbidden. So blood and grape juice are inseparably connected.

Genesis 9:4: But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

This is why I have also BANNED the eating of grapes in our house.

I would think 'the banana' is also a VERY sinful fruit because of it's shape, and I have heard the eating of can cause homosexuality.

Can anyone tell me what other fruits are unsafe or sinful for a Christian to eat?

[Zechariah Smyth]

Originally Posted by Brother_Percy

Friends,

My daughter asked me earlier today "Daddy, why are we allowed to eat apples today, when Adam and Eve ate an apple 6,000 years ago and were thrown out of Eden for it?"

Naturally I explained to her that apples were NOT Forbidden Fruit, and that this had merely been a mistake in the translation of the word 'malum', which means 'evil', NOT 'apple'.

Potential forbidden fruits of the Garden of Eden include the pomegranate, the fig, the carob, the citron, the pear and the datura, which is why all of those are BANNED in our house.

However, many Baptists believe the Forbidden Fruit was actually a grape, which ties in with other verses where the fruit from the vine tree (ie. grapes) was forbidden.



This is why I have also BANNED the eating of grapes in our house.

I would think 'the banana' is also a VERY sinful fruit because of it's shape, and I have heard the eating of can cause homosexuality.

Can anyone tell me what other fruits are unsafe or sinful for a Christian to eat?

I think that if for some reason you HAVE to eat a banana (in a survival situation, for instance) you should peel it AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, then put it on a plate and slice it into pieces so that it no longer resembles a tallywacker.

Grapes...hmmm. Well, they are used to make wine and Our Lord Jesus Christ drank wine (Matthew 26, etc.). Of course in wine form grapes no longer resemble testicles, so maybe they are only good that way?

Hopefully a Pastor will be along to shed some light on this matter.

YiC,

Zech

P.S. Naturally a starfruit is FORBIDDEN. The cross section looks like a poopy-hole:

[Alphonse Alban]

I'm not so sure about God's view on fruit, but just in case I do not touch any fruit before they are de-homosexualized by my wife in to a form of pie.

[Jack O'fagan]

Melons are not allowed in my house. They look like ladies body parts and then you cut them in half and it gets ever worse .

YIC

Jack

[Brother_Percy]

Originally Posted by Zechariah Smyth

I think that if for some reason you HAVE to eat a banana (in a survival situation, for instance) you should peel it AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, then put it on a plate and slice it into pieces so that it no longer resembles a tallywacker?

OK, I'm gonna stop you right there, brother. There is absolutely NO WAY I would eat ANY FRUIT that could give me AIDS! NO CHANCE! Even on a survival situation, I think i'd rather die than become a queer!

No disrespect meant, but even slicing it up wouldn't work, because when you tried to eat it you'd probably end up picturing it as a sliced up man's thingy, and that would be just gross. Yuck!

Originally Posted by Zechariah Smyth

Grapes...hmmm. Well, they are used to make wine and Our Lord Jesus Christ drank wine (Matthew 26, etc.). Of course in wine form grapes no longer resemble testicles, so maybe they are only good that way?

Hmmm... I hear what you're saying, brother, but did our Lord REALLY make give them a drink made from grapes? No, it was made from his blood. So, from the Bible, I think it's clear that we ARE allowed to drink wine, but only if it is made from Jesus' blood, and not if it is made from grapes. Least, that's what I understand from it, as The Bible says alcoholic drink is evil.

It is not just the amount one drinks that makes drinking a sin. God condemns the drink itself.

Prov 20:1 - "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."

See, this is why I strongly believe we are allowed to drink wine ONLY if it is made by Jesus.

Here are 75 other examples condemning the use of wine and other alcoholic beverages than will be found on the subjects of lying, adultery, swearing, cheating, hypocrisy, pride, or even blasphemy -

1) Genesis 9:20-26 - Noah became drunk; the result was immorality and family trouble.
2) Genesis 19:30-38 - Lot was so drunk he did not know what he was doing; this led to immorality
3) Leviticus 10:9-11 - God commanded priests not to drink so that they could tell the difference between the holy and the unholy.
4) Numbers 6:3 - The Nazarites were told to eat or drink nothing from the grape vine.
5) Deuteronomy 21:20 - A drunken son was stubborn and rebellious.
6) Deuteronomy 29:5-6 - God gave no grape juice to Israel nor did they have intoxicating drink in the wilderness.
7) Deuteronomy 32:33 - Intoxicating wine is like the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
8) Judges 13:4, 7, 14 - Samson was to be a Nazarite for life. His mother was told not to drink wine or strong drink.
9) 1 Samuel 1:14-15 - Accused, Hannah said she drank no wine.
10) 1 Samuel 25:32-38 - Nabal died after a drunken spree.
11) 2 Samuel 11:13 - By getting Uriah drunk, David hoped to cover his sin.
12) 2 Samuel 13:28-29 - Amnon was drunk when he was killed.
13) 1 Kings 16:8-10 - The king was drinking himself into drunkenness when he was assassinated
14) 1 Kings 20:12-21 - Ben-Hadad and 32 other kings were drinking when they were attacked and defeated by the Israelites.
15) Esther 1:5-12 - The king gave each one all the drink he wanted. The king was intoxicated when he commanded the queen to come.
16) Psalm 75:8 - The Lord’s anger is pictured as mixed wine poured out and drunk by the wicked.
17) Proverbs 4:17 - Alcoholic drink is called the wine of violence.
18) Proverbs 20:1 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
19) Proverbs 23:19-20 - A wise person will not be among the drinkers of alcoholic beverages.
20) Proverbs 23:21 - Drunkenness causes poverty.
21) Proverbs 23:29-30 - Drinking causes woe, sorrow, fighting, babbling, wounds without cause and red eyes.
22) Proverbs 23:31 - God instructs not to look at intoxicating drinks.
23) Proverbs 23:32 - Alcoholic drinks bite like a serpent, sting like an adder.
24) Proverbs 23:33 - Alcohol causes the drinker to have strange and adulterous thoughts, produces willfulness, and prevents reformation.
25) Proverbs 23:34 - Alcohol makes the drinker unstable
26) Proverbs 23:35 - Alcohol makes the drinker insensitive to pain so he does not perceive it as a warning. Alcohol is habit forming.
27) Proverb 31:4-5 - Kings, Princes, and others who rule and judge must not drink alcohol. Alcohol perverts good judgment.
28) Proverbs 31:6-7 - Strong drink could be given to those about to perish or those in pain. Better anesthetics are available today.
29) Ecclesiastes 2:3 - The king tried everything, including intoxicating drink, to see if it satisfied. It did not. (Ecclesiastes 12:8)
30) Ecclesiastes 10:17 - A land is blessed when its leaders do not drink.
31) Isaiah 5:11-12 - Woe to those who get up early to drink and stay up late at night to get drunk.
32) Isaiah 5:22 - Woe to "champion" drinkers and "experts" at mixing drinks.
33) Isaiah 19:14 - Drunken men stagger in their vomit.
34) Isaiah 22:12-13 - The Israelites choose to drink; their future looks hopeless to them.
35) Isaiah 24:9 - Drinkers cannot escape the consequences when God judges.
36) Isaiah 28:1 - God pronounces woe on the drunkards of Ephraim.
37) Isaiah 28:3 - Proud drunkards shall be trodden down.
38) Isaiah 28:7 - Priests and prophets stagger and reel from beer and wine, err in vision, and stumble in judgment.
39) Isaiah 28:8 - Drinkers’ tables are covered with vomit and filth.
40) Isaiah 56:9-12 - Drinkers seek their own gain and expect tomorrow to be just like today.
41) Jeremiah 35:2-14 - The Rechabites drank no grape juice or intoxicating wine and were blessed.
42) Ezekiel 44:21 - Again God instructed the priests not to drink wine.
43) Daniel 1:5-17 - Daniel refused the king’s intoxicating wine and was blessed for it along with his abstaining friends.
44) Daniel 5:1 - Belshazzar, ruler of Babylon; led his people in drinking.
45) Daniel 5:2-3 - The king, along with his nobles, wives, and concubines, drank from the goblets which had been taken from God’s temple.
46) Daniel 5:4 - Drinking wine was combined with praising false gods.
47) Daniel 5:23 - God sent word to Belshazzar that punishment would be swift for the evil he had committed.
48) Hosea 4:11 - Intoxicating wine takes away intelligence.
49) Hosea 7:5 - God reproves princes for drinking.
50) Joel 1:5 - Drunkards awake to see God’s judgment.
51) Joel 3:3 - The enemy is judged for selling girls for wine.
52) Amos 2:8 - Unrighteous acts of Israel included the drinking of wine which had been taken for the payment of fines.
53) Amos 2:12 - Israel is condemned for forcing Nazarites to drink wine.
54) Micah 2:11 - Israelites are eager to follow false teachers who prophesy plenty of intoxicating drinks.
55) Nahum 1:10 - The drunkards of Nineveh will be destroyed by God.
56) Habakkuk 2:5 - A man is betrayed by wine.
57) Habakkuk 2:15 - Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink.
58) Habakkuk 2:16 - Drinking leads to shame.
59) Matthew 24:48-51 - A drinking servant is unprepared for his Lord’s return.
60) Luke 1:15 - John the Baptist drank neither grape juice nor wine.
61) Luke 12:45 - Christ warned against drunkenness.
62) Luke 21:34 - Drunkenness will cause a person not to be ready for the Lord’s return.
63) Romans 13:13 - Do not walk in drunkenness or immorality.
64) Romans 14:21 - Do not do anything that will hurt your testimony as a believer.
65) 1 Corinthians 5:11 - If a Christian brother is a drinker, do not associate with him.
66) 1 Corinthians 6:10 - Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God
67) Galatians 5:21 - Acts of the sinful nature, such as drunkenness, will prohibit a person from inheriting the kingdom of God.
68) Ephesians 5:18 - In contrast to being drunk with wine, the believer is to be filled with the Spirit.
69) 1 Thessalonians 5:6-7 - Christians are to be alert and self-controlled, belonging to the day. Drunkards belong to the night and darkness.
70) 1 Timothy 3:2-3 - Bishops (elders) are to be temperate, sober, and not near any wine.
71) 1 Timothy 3:8 - Deacons are to be worthy of respect and not drinkers.
72) 1 Timothy 3:11 - Deacons’ wives are to be temperate and sober.
73) Titus 1:7-8 - An overseer is to be disciplined.
74) Titus 2:2-3 - The older men and older women of the church are to be temperate and not addicted to wine.
75) 1 Peter 4:3-4 - The past life of drunkenness and carousing has no place in the Christian’s life.

[Trent Harvey, Jr.]

Originally Posted by Alphonse Alban

I'm not so sure about God's view on fruit, but just in case I do not touch any fruit before they are de-homosexualized by my wife in to a form of pie.

Now that's a statement that's as American as apple pie in a cake on a cherry pie in a cake on a pumpkin pie in a cake inside one gigantic cake.

[VictoryOS]

What a beautiful pie cake! As soon as my husband sees that picture, I'll be commanded into the kitchen right away. Just fine by me!

[Brother Temperance]

Personally, I think it's best to avoid eating any of the fruits that a vegetarian would eat. And the vegan fruits are right out.

[Brother_Percy]

Originally Posted by Brother Temperance

Personally, I think it's best to avoid eating any of the fruits that a vegetarian would eat. And the vegan fruits are right out.

Brother, do vegetarians even eat fruit? I thought they only ate vegetables? Not sure the difference between vegans and vegetarians tho? Well, apart from all vegans being queers and beaners. Though I can't imagine a straight heterosexual man not eating red meat, so both groups seem like gays to me. Maybe it's the pagan (wiccan) thing, as I know all Vegans worship the Devil? Anyone know the difference?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Originally Posted by Brother_Percy

Brother, do vegetarians even eat fruit? I thought they only ate vegetables? Not sure the difference between vegans and vegetarians tho? Well, apart from all vegans being queers and beaners. Though I can't imagine a straight heterosexual man not eating red meat, so both groups seem like gays to me. Maybe it's the pagan (wiccan) thing, as I know all Vegans worship the Devil? Anyone know the difference?

Your suspicions are confirmed HERE.

[Brother_Percy]

Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel

Your suspicions are confirmed HERE.

Thanks Pastor, I'm still trying to figure out what the difference is between vegetarians and vegans.

My sister says the only difference is that vegetarians are allowed to eat chicken, whereas vegans aren't. None of them are allowed to eat fruit, because apparently that's fruitarians? There certainly are a lot of weirdos out there.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Originally Posted by Brother_Percy

Thanks Pastor, I'm still trying to figure out what the difference is between vegetarians and vegans.

My sister says the only difference is that vegetarians are allowed to eat chicken, whereas vegans aren't. None of them are allowed to eat fruit, because apparently that's fruitarians? There certainly are a lot of weirdos out there.

I'm pretty sure that vegans are the lezbeans, and the other ones are the nancyboys.

[Jacob Slatter]

Naturally I explained to her that apples were NOT Forbidden Fruit, and that this had merely been a mistake in the translation of the word 'malum', which means 'evil', NOT 'apple'.

There are no errors in the KJV. Be careful brother, you are bordering on disbelief right now.

[Brother_Percy]

Originally Posted by Jacob Slatter

There are no errors in the KJV. Be careful brother, you are bordering on disbelief right now.

Friend, show me where in the KJV1611 Bible that teaches the forbidden fruit was an apple.

[Jacob Slatter]

Friend, show me where in the KJV1611 Bible that teaches the forbidden fruit was an apple.

No talk about apples. In Gen 2:17 we read;
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

The message is obvious and is just another example of the miraculous foresight of The Lord. You are not to eat anything containing food additive E460.

If we take the more abstract philosophical approach popular with hippies and modern scholars alike one could argue that all fruit is impermissible. Given the other dietary guidelines so generously bestowed upon us by The Almighty God Jesus and their clear focus on eating only things that had sentient parents, this position makes a whole lot of sense.

And please think about it. Most fruit is suggestive in shape and color.

[Brother_Percy]

Originally Posted by Jacob Slatter

No talk about apples. In Gen 2:17 we read;
"But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

The message is obvious and is just another example of the miraculous foresight of The Lord. You are not to eat anything containing food additive E460.

If we take the more abstract philosophical approach popular with hippies and modern scholars alike one could argue that all fruit is impermissible. Given the other dietary guidelines so generously bestowed upon us by The Almighty God Jesus and their clear focus on eating only things that had sentient parents, this position makes a whole lot of sense.

And please think about it. Most fruit is suggestive in shape and color.

Son, if it were all about the type of fruit, I'd think a banana was more suggestive than an apple, because of it's shape bearing a resemblance to a man's erect tallywhacker, as Satan could have been using a banana to try to loure Adam into being a homo.

[JoshuaBlackmaster]

I've always been suspicious of fuzzy peaches. Anyone else?

[Jacob Slatter]

Originally Posted by Brother_Percy

Son, if it were all about the type of fruit, I'd think a banana was more suggestive than an apple, because of it's shape bearing a resemblance to a man's erect tallywhacker, as Satan could have been using a banana to try to loure Adam into being a homo.

Well, obviously banana is a devil fruit. duh. But read the text again, it said they cant eat from the tree of knowledge. Nothing about fruits.



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