Tomatoes in the Bible

So...there's a diet regimen called the "God Diet". One of the main ingredients in this diet is the tomato. How utterly strange is that?! Tomatoes are native to western, South America. There were no tomatoes in Europe until the 1500's. They weren't introduced to the Middle East until around 1800!

How is it that the tomato is mentioned in the Bible (Corinthians and elsewhere) when the New Testament was supposedly written around 50 AD...1500 years before those people ever saw a tomato? There were no tomatoes there at the time!

I can only arrive at one conclusion: the areas of the Bible that mention tomatoes must have been written 1500 years later. It must be all the product of the perpetual, continual, creative license taken by the Vatican (or whoever was doing the writing in the mid-1500's).  It appears those authors, having discovered the wonders of tomatoes so long after the passing of the Apostle Paul and his own writings, wanted to glorify the newly discovered treat...the tomato! So...they incorporated it in the Bible to lend credence to...themselves.

One can only imagine what else may have been invented and included in the Bible over all the years! Certainly, the "God Diet" is based on fiction as is so much more!

(Uh...of course it must be a miracle...and God works in mysterious ways.)

Also, maybe the translation was incorrect. Maybe the Apostle Paul was talking about grapes...or olives. I don't think so, though. I don't think he said anything at all about such things. Someone else attributed those quotes to him, 1500 years after his death. (It turns out that this gross mis-quote actually happened nearly 2000 years later!)

Oh...and maybe Joseph Smith really DID find the "Golden Tablets" in the Ohio field and really DID forget where he put them.

Maybe a lot of things...or maybe we should all just think.

Okay...with a little more research, I've discovered there's only one, on-line translation referring to tomatoes in the Bible. It is "The Message" Bible which is a completely crap version. All others seem to be totally different. As such, I'll be removing this post shortly.