Forbidden fruit Adam and Eve upon expelling them from the Garden. "By that with which they were made low were they rectified." Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance. The most famous depiction of the fig as the forbidden fruit was painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti in his masterpiece fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is now known as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was
Donald W. Sweeting his doctorate in Church History and Historical Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School . His dissertation focused on the changing relationship between Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States between 1960 and 2000. Sweeting served as an intern for U.S. Congressman John B. Anderson in 1976. After college (1979), Sweeting served for a year with Chuck Colson and Prison Fellowship in Washington, D.C. where he coordinated early efforts in prison reform, worked on public policy, and served as a traveling assistant to Colson. In 1986, Sweeting helped plant a church in the Chain of Lakes area and served as its