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I’m reading a book called Eve’s Herbs, a history of contraception and abortion in the West by John M Riddle which is available on amazon. It contains information about herbal birth control methods (ie herbal remedies), many of which are in our food today including figs, dates, pomegranate, bitter almonds, death carrot (or wild carrot), rue and mint, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
The methods of birth control may relate to the apple of Sodom which is based on this story in Kings 2 4:38-41.
38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39 Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were. 40 So they poured it out for the men to eat. And it came about as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out and said, “O man of God, there is death in the pot.” And they were unable to eat.
I’m writing my own theology on original sin aswell. Some non-Christian foods like curry and tagine may contain the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden or the apple of Sodom (bitter gourds).
indobase.com/recipes/details/bitter-gourd-curry.php
The methods of birth control may relate to the apple of Sodom which is based on this story in Kings 2 4:38-41.
38 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” 39 Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were. 40 So they poured it out for the men to eat. And it came about as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out and said, “O man of God, there is death in the pot.” And they were unable to eat.
I’m writing my own theology on original sin aswell. Some non-Christian foods like curry and tagine may contain the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden or the apple of Sodom (bitter gourds).
indobase.com/recipes/details/bitter-gourd-curry.php