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From what I've been taught, the apple is merely a symbolism, and it was really about Adam and Eve having sex, and that's why people are born with original sin and need to be baptized to get it lifted.
Not that it changes much, but it wasn't just an apple.
I've heard a rabbi describe it as an allegory of the transition from childhood in the garden to adulthood when we are cast out and face all the hardships of adulthood. Something that happens to everyone, even the first everyones.
Except for the children of the rich. Those adult children we've somehow allowed to reign over us in the real world and torment us in modern actuality.
If this is an analogy for parenthood it would appear that daddy really hates when their children grow up and is willing to smite them for it. Not exactly father of year material.
You know if you just read the text it is pretty clear that the story is about some angry bronze age god full of his very human pettiness.