. . "Also, since they had yet to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they could not yet know the consequences of their actions, i.e. the difference between good and evil.Thirdly, if God didn???t want them to know what evil was, then evil obviously already existed, if only perhaps as a potentiality that God tacitly endorses. ???When God says ???don???t???, he???s saying ???don???t do th" . . .