Dr. Dylan Johnson
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Not a satisfying answer, I know, but a fruit.
And it's my guess that it's a fig, so...
Yeah.
So they kind of explain what they're supposed to represent.
Let's get back to the point of this whole story.
Since the third century AD, this has been a story about sin.
Famously, St.
Augustine interpreted this as the original sin, the sin of Eve.
She listened to the serpent.
Who, by the way, doesn't necessarily lie in this narrative.
Right.
God says you shall eat from all the trees except for these two.
And if and if you do eat from them, you shall surely die.
That's the that's the biblical line there.
You shall surely die.
Right, right.
And this is where the serpent comes in, the tempting serpent.
He says, is that true?
Is it true that God told you that, that if you eat from this tree, you will surely die?
And he says, yeah, that's what he told us two verses ago.