It really comes down to a question of trust.
Logic should have told them to trust their maker.
Logic should have also told Eve that after she corrected the serpent once, that the serpent wasn’t trust worthy.
The new testament says Adam wasn’t deceived. The implication is that Adam ate even though he knew he’d die to be with Even and suffer the same fate.
It’s really the same issue today. We know what is right, yet we fail to do it, because we fail to trust God. And then once we’ve crossed that line and broken the law, God offers to fix it for us. But once again, that takes trust in God. So many people don’t want to trust God, they want to do it themselves, earn it themselves, or justify their behavior so they don’t need forgiveness in the first place.
I like your point.
This is about the only thing in the bible that ever left me scratching my head- “What was this Tree of Knowledge?” and “Why did God stick it in the middle of their garden if he didnt want them to eat it?”
and most of all - What happend to this tree?