To reiterate, Scripture places Adam before the two specific fruit trees in the garden. Fruit is something you eat to take in; it becomes part of your being. Some say; "You are what you eat." In fact, every tree has its seed by which it may reproduce itself, "after its own kind" (Gen 1:11).

“The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil,” of which our human father Adam ate, is actually a tree of apparent independence from reliance upon God. You see, Adam’s fall, was a fall to independence by the knowledge that he had gained from that tree. Eve saw that tree one that “was desirable to make one wise,” as the Serpent told Eve, “you shall be as God’s knowing good and evil.”