The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

At the beginning of time, god attributes to human beings the same essential capacity. Then we turn to and eve in the garden, and they're unconscious. By all appearances, allied tightly with god, but unconscious. They don't seem aware of their own vulnerability. They make the fatal error of having their eyes open. They also discover their capacity for evil. And i can't understand how to hurt some one until i know exactly how i can be hurt myself. So there's something about that that's right. History doesn't really begin until people aware of the future....