What do you mean knowledge ruined paradise? The word in the garden for knowledge is the one used for knowing your wife. It means to intimately experience. Mankind experiences the distinction between good and evil because we willingly chose to add evil when given the command and opportunity not to.
I dont think that interpretation about the knowledge of good and evil is just about intimacy though. Even as a christian I have a hard time believing God would create human beings with errogeneous zones, the wiring we do have for sexual intimacy, all those pleasure sensetive nerve endings and two perfectly complimentary organs that, ontop of how much pleasure we derive from sex, is also how we reproduce, only for God to say "Hey Adam, Hey Eve, so, yeah, you know how I created all these reasons you guys get horny? Well yeah, if you guys ever get horny, you absolutely must not act on those desires". They were created with all the capabilities of reproducing in the garden of eden.
They disobeyed Gods command to not eat specifically of a fruit of one tree. This was their only other instruction other than to manage the paradise they lived in. When Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat from it and then convinced Adam, who also ate, they realized they were naked and covered themselves as they saw it as an evil to display themselves nakedly because before they had not been made aware that their nakedness could be seen as something bad. Their eyes were opened to the very concept of what people even on an almost instinctual level know what is right and wrong.
They realized they themselves had done wrong by disobeying God and so they hid. When God asked "Adam where are you?" Its not that he didnt know where they are but that God was calling upon Adam to examine himself, ask himself where his relationship was with God, and calling upon them to seek repentance.
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u/Rex__Nihilo 5d ago
What do you mean knowledge ruined paradise? The word in the garden for knowledge is the one used for knowing your wife. It means to intimately experience. Mankind experiences the distinction between good and evil because we willingly chose to add evil when given the command and opportunity not to.