How Can Fruit Change Flesh?
The Bible unambiguously teaches that the nature of every human being on earth was altered at the time of the fall 22 when mankind’s earliest parents ate the fruit of a certain tree. However, many people find it difficult to understand how the act of eating vegetation can permanently alter human nature.23 In this regard, we note that certain Bible texts 24 suggest that the “trees” in the garden may not be intended as literal vegetation, but instead are a metaphor to communicate literal truths of past events whose context lies outside human experience. Jesus Christ himself confirmed that it was not the eating by Adam of the literal produce that produced the change because Jesus taught that nothing a man eats can defile him since it doesn’t enter his “heart,” but rather his stomach and is thus passed on. 25 The fruit described in Genesis defiled not only a man but the entire human race. Therefore, Page 151 it should be inferred that the fruit was more than just something that went into Ad
