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#157 Making sense of Adam, Eve and the Genesis creation story
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If they committed the sin willingly, it means they chose evil over good. If they did it ignorantly and couldn't differentiate good from evil, then God would have been unfair in his judgment. The only logical answer according to the story of Genesis is that they already knew good and evil. So I think the knowledge of good and evil is not just ahead knowledge. It's actually a knowing by experience. That good is life. Evil means darkness and exile and curse.
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