Regarding the following passage: > And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree > in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of > good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” Genesis 2:16-17 The tree is that of knowledge of good and evil - a specific type of knowledge. As an aside, knowledge requires experience at least via education (2nd hand) - working knowledge, aka actionable/useful/pragmatic understanding. Obviously this means, or equates to, the tree of judgement. A determination that something is good or is evil is a judgement. So, then, the message seems to be that making judgement calls regarding what is good or evil was never meant for man. Is this line of thinking sound, or have I misinterpreted the passage? Is it judgements that poison our experience. Or, am I off base?