You are filling in the blanks with whatever you want to make your story hold together.
You have not answered my objection that he cannot know what good and evil are until he eats of the tree. He may know he will die, and many other things, but he cannot discern whether they are good or evil until he has the knowledge of what good and evil actually is. And that requires him to eat of the fruit first.
No. You are missing the point. You are taking your interpretation or an interpretation that you heard, thinking that the Bible is an old collection of moral stories like Aesop's Fables or something. It isn't.
So, if I hear your interpretation and I ask why you have to tell me how it fits with the rest of the Bible. For example, then, why did Jehovah Create the nation of Israel? Why does God allow suffering? etc.
What I'm telling you comes from knowing the entire story instead of just one little part and then another until you have an unsolved puzzle. I have the puzzle complete. Thus your confusion.
0. God existed with out creation, before time. In order to share his existence he created his first born only begotten son, Michael. Michael became his master worker, and the heavens, then angels, then Earth and it's inhabitants were created.
1. God created Adam in his own image, like he had the angels.
2. Adam named all of the animals, which means he was around a considerable amount of time and would have seen them die. Animals die because they weren't created in God's image.
3. Adam was told by God not to bother the specific tree in question, or he, like the animals, would die. Adam knew from observing what death was. If he didn't want to go through that he only had to leave the tree alone.
4. Adam was alone for a while, then God created Eve. Adam, or God, had told Eve about the tree.
5. An angel, the most beautiful of angels, was put in charge of protecting the garden, the angel deceived Eve by pretending to be a serpent speaking to her, like a puppet. He convinced her to eat. Adam, being afraid of being alone, decided to eat as well.
6. The result was that they then became ashamed of being naked. They had no reason to be. God had created them that way, but now, they were confused by making their own decisions about what was good and what was bad.
The above was a sort of prologue which takes us up to Genesis 3:15, which is the first prophecy of Jesus Christ. There is the short prologue which tells us about creation and the fall of man, then it kicks in with the rest of the story from there, Genesis 3:15 to the end of Revelation.
It's confusing because it sounds like God is punishing the snake, Eve and Adam, and that is partly true, at least with Adam and Eve, but there's much more to it. God is also referring to what would follow, with Satan, Jesus, God's followers and Satan's followers. Satan would bruise Jesus' head, but it wouldn't be a fatal wound. Only a wound of the heal. Jesus, however, would fatally wound Satan with a head wound. The seed of the woman is the followers of God, the seed of Satan are the adversaries. Satan would succeed in killing Jesus, but only temporarily, and in the end Jesus would destroy Satan and his seed, or army, consisting of angels and humans.
So. . . . God allows mankind to go on deciding things for himself, so that not only mankind but the angels as well, can see for themselves whether or not Satan was telling the truth to Eve. A considerable amount of time passes.
0. God needs to select a people for two important reasons. First, to teach them of the sin of Adam's sin and their inability to fulfill the law of justice. He needs to teach them how they need a savior, or messiah.
1. He finds Abraham (Abram). God though that if he was going to send his son to be sacrificed for these people then Abraham ought to have enough faith in God to sacrifice his own son, Isaac, knowing that God could bring him back. Resurrect him. When God is convinced that Abraham has the faith to begin this nation, he stops him from sacrificing Isaac.
2. Once the people are enough in numbers to begin the task, Moses is selected to lead them to a place where they can establish God's kingdom on Earth. They take over the land, usually giving their enemies first the opportunity to join them, though sometime God knows the people are too much trouble due to their history of bloodthirsty war and vile religious practices. Though God instructs the people of Israel to give some the opportunity to join them they are instructed not to allow those people who refuse to influence them with the vile practices that they have left behind.
3. From the beginning there are problems with the people not doing what they are told, but eventually they get to the promised land.
4. God gives the people the law by gathering them together and having it read to them, and they agree to abide by it, but they repeatedly fail. Part of this is insisting they have a human king like the other nations. God allows some of their suggestions.
5. The people are told that blood is the life, or soul. If a man's blood is spilled and he dies the blood of the one spilling it then must be spilled. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, soul for soul. Since Adam's blood was spilled, in effect, by sin, i.e. his eventual death, only the blood of a similar person, being born without sin could be spilled to serve justice and bring about life everlasting without sin, i.e., death.
6. A very strict public genealogical record is kept so that when the messiah comes there will be no doubt who he is. It points to only one person.
7. Due to religious and political reasons the chosen people are confused and reject the messiah, so the original invitation of life everlasting is expanded to include people of all the nations. Pentecost is a demonstration of this. For a time the disciples spread the good news to the people of the nations, and for this brief time, including when Michael came to earth in human form to eventually give his blood miracles took place to demonstrate God's doing all of this.
8. Jesus returns to heaven as Michael, and eventually wars with Satan and his angels, and they are cast out of Heaven, causing a great deal of trouble on Earth knowing they haven't got much time.
9. Eventually God destroys the wicked system Satan has created on Earth, Satan is imprisoned, there is a resurrection of people who haven't had the opportunity to know all of this and 1,000 years pass. Then Satan is released to give those people an alternative choice. Destruction. Many will choose destruction.
10. The meek inherit the earth and live forever upon it without sin, death or sickness.
