The forbidden fruit

The forbidden fruit was from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now, let us think about this philosophically. Bears and wolves occasionally eat people, but we don't say that they are evil. They are just doing what bears and wolves do. They get hungry; they eat. Bears and wolves don't know good from evil. Since they don't, they are not culpable. In theological terms, they can neither sin nor be saved. People, however, are different. How does one account for our moral difference? Well, we can discern (when we are at our best) between good and evil. One of the legal criteria of sanity is the ability to tell right from wrong. Eating from the tree of knowledge turns us into morally culpable humans instead of animals. Wouldn't it be easier to go back to being an infant -- knowing neither good nor evil. An infant is like the wolf and bear (but without the teeth and claws--The infant is morally like the wolf and bear.) Once we grow up and know the difference between good and evil, we carry a burden of maturity to do what is right and to be held accountable if we fail. Having realized this burden, we are no longer in infancy--we have left the crib. In Biblical terms, we have been cast out of the garden and left to fend for ourselves as adults.