the forbidden fruit

"It all began with that ancient lesson from Genesis: man is forbidden to seek awareness; he should be content to believe and obey."
Michel Onfray

I've been flipping this quote around in my head for a little while and I think I may have an interesting interpretation of why the attainment of the knowledge of good and evil was such a threat to God's little paradise.
They didn't know they were naked, they had no shame, before their eyes were opened by eating the forbidden fruit. But what the writers that wrote the Bible in the past didn't know and we know now about sensory learning is that there is no good and evil there is only pain and pleasure. We've moralized pain as being bad and pleasure as being good but at the beginning they had no knowledge of anything.
So was it a knowledge of moral good and evil, or a sensory awareness that they lacked until their "eyes" were opened? And more specifically how could it be knowledge of moral good and evil when God hadn't given adam or eve any morals yet but he did give them dominion, you own everything here. You have free rein except for these 2 trees don't eat from them, or you'll die. but what was death to them? There WAS no death in eden so how could they be in fear of something they had no exposure to. God might as well have said if you eath this apple you'll become longitude.

I believe the moral to this story is that they were numb until they began to feel. We should aspire to being numb to be more like we were supposed to be in paradise before we got ahead of ourselves and wanted to try out what it meant to be alive? And by alive i mean self aware. Once we explore our bodies and our minds and discover that we all have limitations and the ability to surpise ourselves I hope we would all come to the realization, that with life comes vulnerability and personal triumph but no one gets an extension. But then again, who wants to live in the real scary NOW when you can live for a glimmering candyland in space when you die.
Yeah that sounds sane.
Here's the other point that makes no sense to me, the snake. You're telling me that a source of power that was so omnipotent, it could create life from nothingness would not know that he set up a spoiler in the garden. Oh but I can hear the retort right now, "it was a test."
ok,...that's fucked up creating something from nothing and then giving it a nuclear weapon and saying now don't push this red button. But anything else feel free to do whatever you want with it. What a dick.
What would have happened if they had not eaten the fruit? A T-rex (oh wait God never created giant lizards,...right?) ok so a wombat would have been the next thing to tempt them? We were bound to fail, by design according to the bible. We HAD to fail because we aren't living numb and blissful,...not yet anyway. And that's apparently paradise. So its our fault. So get on your knees and repeat to yourself I am not worthy of life,...even though YOU are alive and before adam and eve ate the forbidden fruit they were not. They existed but were not alive by our evolved standards of what constitues life, anyway.
Self Awareness,...what a deliciously forbidden delight.