Are apple pies okay?

[Mistress Cookie]

I was shopping for some pie ingredients this afternoon, looking over what was in season, and the apples, as they are all year 'round, looked so shiny and delicious.

Then it suddenly hit me: Why is it okay for us to bake Apple Pies, when it was the Apple itself that began all the problems for our forefathers, Adam and Eve?

Is not paring and coring Apples, tossing them in brown sugar and sweet butter, then hiding them beneath a flaky pastry (or strussel) topping somehow "dressing up" and disguising the Apple, which has a rather checkered history?

Is there not something vaguely sinister about us women then placing these Apple Pies in front of our fathers, our husbands, our children, and therefor nonverbally urging them to "take a bite"?

I am very disturbed by this, and went with pecans.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Good Christian ladies should bake the pies their men like. Apples are no more or less dangerous than any other fruit in the hands of a female. It is the female who is dangerous, not the apple.

I prefer blueberry pie myself.

[Rev. Jim Osborne]

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My dear Cookie, you needn't worry about apples. Contrary to popular belief, the Bible says nothing about apples! It only mentions a "fruit", which can be anything; apple, pear, orange, lemon, tangerine, cherry, etc. Let us open our Bibles to the Book of Genesis, Chapter 3...

1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

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Thank you Rev Jim for dispelling superstition and old folk tales from the path of Biblical Knowledge. Theologians have long suspected that the Tree was a fig tree as figs figure much in the Bible:

M't:21:19: And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
M't:21:20: And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!

Though whether, in Genesis, the fig tree is figurative we do not know. It would be good if it were real, as few people bake fig pies. (I append a picture of a fig.)

[Mistress Cookie]

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Theologians have long suspected that the Tree was a fig tree as figs figure much in the Bible:

Contrary to popular belief, the Bible says nothing about apples! It only mentions a "fruit"

Thank you both for helping me rest easy. In our home, I left the reading to my late husband, the Reverend Daryl. Though he would read the Bible aloud sometimes, his concentration was not the best, and he skipped around a lot. Subsequently, there are sections I missed.

I bet it was a fig tree. Or maybe kiwi. Which is good news, because you can't make fig or kiwi pies, anyway.

[Nobar King]

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Now I have to wonder: Are YOUR apple pies OK?

[Mistress Cookie]

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Now I have to wonder: Are YOUR apple pies OK?

Sir!

The Reverend was always much older than I, who was practically a child-bride.

There was nothing at all unusual about Daryl's passing, I can assure you. His brother investigated me ceaselessly for three long years, and they found nothing.