The Bible Never Mentions Avocados — but It Has an Advocate

Christian Pure Team

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Samenvatting

  • There are no avocados in the Bible. The tree is native to Mexico and Central America and reached the Old World with the Spanish in the sixteenth century, long after Scripture was complete.
  • Scripture interprets only two fruit dreams — the cupbearer’s vine and Pharaoh’s ears of grain — and in both God gives the meaning through Joseph. It supplies no table of symbols.
  • In French avocat means both the fruit and the advocate; Spanish keeps the pair in aguacate en abogado.
  • The New Testament names two Advocates: Jesus with the Father (1 John 2:1) and the Spirit sent to be with us (John 14:16). The Greek is parakletos, “called alongside.”
  • Romans 8:26 says the Spirit intercedes “through wordless groans” — prayer made for us that we neither produce nor spoil.

There are no avocados in the Bible. Not one — and not because the writers overlooked them. The avocado is a tree of Mexico and Central America, and no one in Jerusalem, Rome or Antioch had ever seen one. The fruit and the Scriptures did not meet until fifteen centuries after the last page was written. So no dream of avocados can carry a biblical meaning, because Scripture has no word for the thing. And yet, dear friends, there is…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (1 John 2:1; John 14:16; Romans 8:26); Genesis 40-41 for the cupbearer’s and Pharaoh’s dreams.

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