>>40520758The eating of the fruit of tree knowledge, in my mind, is best summed up as humanities collective decision in ancient history to abandon forage/hunter-gatherer lifestyle in favor of civilization.
It is not really clear why we did this. It probably wasn't ever necessary. It was like we have locked ourselves out of ever being "animals" like we used to be. There's no going back after making that choice.
Biblically, God warned us to remain natural and not to do this. In real life, whether it was as plain is unclear, but it takes great sacrifice and pains to begin farming over hunting-gathering.
Animals do not strive to do anything beyond survival, but we want so much more. It's completely unnatural and I think the only reason it happened to humans (or chimps then, and in-between) were environmental struggles which by all means should've wiped out our ancestors, and most animals would've just accepted their fate when food supplies ran out, but we adapted and adapted and refused to die. Maybe this is our great mistake, but God doesn't see things this way.
Now God is fully interested in carrying civilization through beginning to end, and great shall be the end of it, that it will be appointed by God alone, the laws of physics (Logos), the ever-howling Unnameable that rules over all but does not laud it over them. Let these all mean the same thing, for the sake of wisdom, for we must know we do not know better but we have seen the veil and the blurred forms beyond.
I think the biggest tipping point for humanity, and the fruit, was probably a type of psychedelic. A plant that by all accounts was (too survival) of little use, little nutrition, and potentially highly toxic (basically pyschedelics are minor toxins and cause sickness to a degree when ingested). But we found we could get away with it and that changed everything, it set the wheels in motion for seperating man from animal.