[OBW]

I find it even more interesting that when Adam and Eve disobeyed and partook of the forbidden tree, they got exactly what they sought for — knowledge of good and evil.

And what they learned from it is that the very gaining of that knowledge was evil.

When I started thinking about this a little while ago, I realized that they already had knowledge of good and evil. But it was not self-knowledge, rather knowledge that was supplied by God. When they ate of the tree, it says their eyes were opened. Among the first recognitions of evil were their own observation that they were naked (exposed) and that they had disobeyed. And it did them no good. They could realize that they had done wrong, but they could do nothing about it.

And left to our own devices, our propensity is toward evil. And our response relative to God is to try and hide it from him. Our only hope is to return our thoughts to God. Our will to God. Our source to the original Source.