hope this is in the right place
OK jus something to muse apon
from a philosophical POV.....
think about all that is good.. now if there was no evil, no bad, you could not appreciate the good.
without knowledge there is no meaning,
perfection lacks nothing,
when adam took the fruit fromt he tree of knowledge what was he actually doing?
I think the story is about the way we humans think, and how this way of thinking effects us.
The fruit of the knowledge of good and evil represents mankind's ability to presume to judge all that he experiences relative to himself, as if he were God's equal. But we are not God's equals, and this judgment rightfully belongs only to God. Which is why in the story God forbid us from eating of this tree. So when Adam and Eve ingested this "fruit", anyway, it's a metaphor for mankind adopting the presumption of his own divinity, and the right and ability to pass judgment on all existence according to his own desires. And the result of his doing this was a life of endless toil. Because when mankind presumes to stand in judgment of creation, and then judges it according to his own desires, he finds creation lacking, or wanting. He finds it so because the purpose of creation was never to serve mankind's desires, but to serve God's. Yet mankind presumes and judges, anyway, and so where he sees creation as lacking, he then sets to work trying to "correct" this lack, and trying to force creation to serve him as he would wish. And this is an endless task, of course, because the purpose of creation was never to serve mankind, and so mankind toils endlessly and fruitlessly at trying to make it do so.
It is written that man is punished through that with which he sins. And this was mankind's first sin. It was the sin of arrogance. It was the sin of presuming that because we can think, we can judge God's creation as though we were gods, ourselves, and then we multiply that arrogance by trying to "correct" what God had already made perfect.
It's a sin we're still committing. And the more we try to "correct" the Earth, the worse things get. Because there was nothing wrong with it to begin with. We were supposed to learn how to live within the magnificent garden that we were given, not dominate and exploit it, but we still haven't learned this lesson, not even after thousands of years.
Different people have different opinions - if we didnt, we wouldnt have this forum 
