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What is evil about the knowledge of good and evil?
With our eyes open. Our eyes would be open to all things in the light of our own sinfulness. Mankind wants to live without God. He wants to be independent of God and his rules. There has always been a temptation to be like God.
Sin is potrayed in scripture as falling short of the glory of God, going astray and even trespassing (exercising our own free-will in the realm of divine authority). The desire to do things our way rather than Gods way is considered a sin. The problem with the sin-nature of man was that Adam and Eve knew good, but were unable to do it, and they knew evil, but were unable to resist it. If God DOES exist then there are no ifs or buts about it. Sin is a personal insult to God and his character therefore his holiness demands sin to be judged. But through Jesus Christ we can escape sin and the judgement of sin.