Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil: gave experiential knowledge of rebellion, not the initial ability to distinguish right from wrong

Mike does not take the tree as giving Adam and Eve the first awareness of right and wrong — they must have had some sense of that for the command to have meaning. Rather, the tree gave experiential knowledge: like a child who has never stolen anything has some sense stealing is wrong, but eating the forbidden fruit was the first genuine act of rebellion, opening the floodgates to all forms of temptation and impurity. Before the fall, the only potentially wrong thing they could even conceive of was disobeying that one prohibition.