In respect to making the choice regarding the fruit how are Adam and Eve equipped to know if God's version is truth/false or if the serpent's version is truth/false? It seems they are reacting to the immediate information given to them and lack the ability to know which is truth and which is not.The knowing or being able to judge the difference between absolute good and absolute evil, which they found out they were still unable to do even after eating the fruit, which is why God told them not to eat of it, etc, which is what made them afraid and why they hid themselves, and tried to cover up their nakedness, etc, or the shame of their nakedness, etc, and hide from God, etc, after that, etc...
The concepts were completely foreign to them at that time, (good and evil) etc, but other than that they knew quite a lot of "other things", etc, a lot of knowledge that was "lost to the ages", etc, they were not stupid before that, just innocent, etc...
It should stand as a warning to us when trying to judge or know the absolute difference between absolute good and absolute evil for absolutely sure, etc...
That kind of knowledge or knowing belongs to God alone, etc...
Satan convinced them that they could be the judges of good and evil for themselves, and they were wrong, and we are still wrong, etc, especially absolutely, and for absolutely sure, etc...
And like I said, they were not stupid, just innocent...
God Bless!
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