• radiofreebc@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Um, you might want to double check that. The apple in the Garden of Eden is literally the free will metaphor expressed.

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        22 hours ago

        The fruit (not an apple) is the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God tells Adam and Eve not to eat from it or they will die.

        The serpent (who is not Satan, simply a snake) convinces Eve and subsequently Adam to eat the fruit, basically telling them that God is lying to them and keeping secrets from them.

        God subsequently expels them from the Garden of Eden for disobeying him.

        Adam and Eve had free will all along, it wasn’t given to them by the forbidden fruit.