Genesis 1-5

I remember this story from our summer reading book Ishmael. It told us all about the creation of the earth in seven days, followed by the birth of humans humans with Adam and all of his descendants. What interested me the most though, was the part about the forbidden tree. God allowed Adam and his wife to eat from any tree in forest except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The serpent though, convinced the humans to get one of it´s fruits. In that moment, they opened their eyes and became conscious of right and wrong. For example, they noticed their nudity at once and covered themselves up, but I believe it goes way beyond that. If Adam and Eve had never taken that fruit, then people would have lived through the history of earth just as another one of God´s unconscious creatures. The forbidden fruit represents the factor which separates us from the rests, It´s what proves the reason why humans are so successful but at the same time selfish and destructive. The apple made us think we have the power to tell good from evil, something no other creature has, making it our gift and even more our curse. Who knows if the apple only tricked into thinking that we were brought into the light, when all along we´ve been living in the dark.