Whatever the fruit may have been (and it definitely was not apples) the act of eating the fruit IN VIOLATION OF GOD'S COMMANDMENT was the evil deed. That tree was "a tree of testing". And both Adam and Eve failed the test.
The knowledge of good and evil became a reality as soon as there was disobedience.
DISOBEDIENCE = KNOWLEDGE OF EVIL
OBEDIENCE = KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD
And because Adam and Eve experienced the knowledge of evil, they did three things:
1. They hid themselves from God
2. They covered their nakedness with aprons of fig leaves
3. They blamed others for their own sins.
Agree.
The knowledge presented in Genesis;
1) God created man and woman, outside of Gods Garden and gave them one name; Adam.
2) God then placed put them in His Garden.
(A foreshadow;
God created the heavens; His Estate. Out from God, came God, and God put Himself on Earth, to teach man, while always remaining with Himself, and His Essence and Name, One Lord God Almighty.)
3) God was with Adam, teaching him, directing him.
4) The consequence for not following Gods direction was revealed to Adam.
(To note;
The time Adam was in the Garden appears to be "short".
The time mankind is a mortal on Earth is "short".
Adam's direction was TO eat of "every" Tree in the Garden....with ONE prohibition...
"ONE"!!!
Also in the Garden was The Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life IS precisely what God was "giving" Adam...ie Gods Word of Knowledge,
Which was ALL "Good and pure Truth".
When Adam chose TO; STOP receiving ALL of Gods Good Knowledge only (by choosing to Eat the fruit of a Tree that Also contained Evil Knowledge)...Adam became banished from Gods Garden.
As Adam was being prepared (with Clothing, provided, animals skins, prepared by God)...
Adam had one last moment to reach out and "Take" the fruit from the Tree of Life and Eat.
But he didn't.
This is also a foreshadow;
A natural man can hear the Word of God, called by the Name Jesus.
A man can Choose to Eat up The Word of God, (and Continue in mans short life-span Eating the Word of God,) (or not).
Like with Adam...The Good knowledge was freely given Adam.
Like with Adam...The Good Fruit of the Knowledge...is man Choice To Reach out and Take the Fruit and Consume it.
A man Who Chooses To "Reach out and Take" the Fruit and Consume The Fruit of The Tree of Life, IS the same man WHO, is choosing To Eat Gods Word FOREVER; and Become Converted and Transformed FOREVER With God. Which is precisely a man; Electing;
TO be forever with God in;
His Garden, His Kingdom, His renewed Earth, His PLACE of Glory (LIGHT), His PLACE of Goodness and Truth.
So Why was there there a Tree of Good and Evil in the Garden?
Because there WAS a Tree of Life in the Garden, of Pure Goodness.
And Because mankind was created with the ability To Make choices....mankind was given Knowledge of opposite things From which to Make his own Freewill choices.
The Awesome revelation of God IS;
Even though mankind is subject To the knowledge of Good and Evil...and he might be overcome with temptations of evil....The Tree of Life IS everywhere that a man can Reach out and Take the Fruit from THAT Tree and become Forgiven and Forever Live By, Through and With God.
And to mention as impressed IN Scriptures... To not dally in making ones choice...
A mans natural (blood) life is Short, and you never know on which day the Lord shall require your life (blood). But what a man should know IS God requires the (blood) Life of Every man...Gen 9:5
And physically dead men know nothing, can CHOOSE nothing.... Ecc 9:5
The lesson IS; hear the Knowledge, learn the knowledge, Trust God, whether or not you yet understand the knowledge....and Make your choice....before your appointment with physical death arrives....
(That He shall then...Put you In His Kingdom!)
Because IF you have not chosen Him....you shall forever be Without Him...Matt 12:30
God Bless,
Taken