This is simple. I know I sound like a semi Gnostic but the tree of knowledge of God and Evil was planted by the Archon Samael - Lucifer, Satan, Mephistopheles- his actual identity. God was very angry about this and that’s why he told Adam and Eve not to eat.
The tree represents the knowledge of good and evil - sophistry. When you walk with Christ btw, created the cosmos, who is the word made flesh such head games aren’t needed. He is the word, you live the word. You don’t need secret knowledge. I often hear unironic Satanists say “I like satan, he made me smart!” No he didn’t, he made you neurotic. There’s a difference. Sophistry is a mockery of true wisdom. Go read some Talmud. It’s more sophistry than anything else. It’s attempting to gain that “secret knowledge.”
I know this is going to sound odd on a JQ thread but I have respect for two forms of Judaism. There’s Kararite Judaism and the Samaritans. Both find the Talmud to be sophistry and garbage. I think they might be the only sincere Jews on the planet. They truly want to follow God and the Torah rather than lift the Torah up during a worship service and then proceed to play lawyer ball with the law of a God they no longer believe in.