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“you brought up another good point. Eve saw it as desirable for gaining wisdom. She is listening to the lies of the serpent, edging closer to him and falling further from God. All before she even eats the fruit and becomes a ’sinner’.”

Yes, that’s how she saw the fruit, Mark because she is deceived at that point by the serpent’s lies. She had told God that the serpent deceived her. This was the truth that she was deceived by the serpent’s lies. It is not surprising how she saw the fruit then. Her being deceived isn’t what made her a sinner, eating was, but she ate because she was deceived. So this all still goes to show at what point she was deceived by the serpent which was the point when she started believing what the serpent told her.