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They were acting on their own free from the start, even before distrusting God.
It wasn't actually disobeying itself (contrary to that one of many popular notions), as best I understand. God could have said: hand water these rose bushes every other day, and they could have gone off on some diligence, and not done it, and He wouldn't have thrown them out of the Garden.
Instead, the key thing, as best I understand, was distrusting God, thinking that He lied -- trusting the serpent over God. Instead of believing in God's words to them, they believed over Him the serpent's claim that God merely wanted to prevent them from becoming just like Him, and just lied to them.
It was especially bad, in that it was taking God not merely to lie, but also to be untrustworthy in a profound way.
They lost faith in God, broke trust.
We notice also they thought to replace Him as Judge -- "the knowledge of good and evil". Of course, we aren't very good judges compared to Someone vastly older than ourselves, Who can see vastly more than we can see, etc.
Distrust is profoundly disconnecting.
Distrust destroys relationships.
Distrust leads to more and more conflict, increasing over time.
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