If the fruit was the knowledge of good and evil, then how was Eve to know that what she was doing was wrong, (evil), BEFORE she ate it? That has always bugged me.
After Eve ate the fruit she knew evil experientially.
Beforehand she had only experienced temptation which isn't evil. Committing the act made her "know" (experience) evil.
everything in the garden has a real-life correlation today
but how does a fruit “contain knowlege of good and evil”?
I dont know of any modern fruit that acts that way
“If the fruit was the knowledge of good and evil, then how was Eve to know that what she was doing was wrong, (evil), BEFORE she ate it? That has always bugged me.”
The Bible said that God had told them they could eat everything but the fruit of that tree. So, she knew God did not want her to do that.
Eve knew it was wrong for the same reason she explained to the serpent; God told her.
God knew exactly where Adam and Eve were when he said, "Where art thou". What God was asking was "Where are your heads"; what were you thinking?