Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
GOD called Adam and Eve to rely completely on HIM and forbade them to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge and become gods themselves on their own, The tree holds the knowledge, to know between good and evil. The tree is not evil but only holds the knowledge, in order to distinguish between both, that is also consist of the knowledge of 'good'.
Men and women are 'evil'. For they violate the cautioned every word of GOD's commandments and instructions in the Old Covenant, in order not to fall into sin once again, even to the ones called into the written New Covenant, given to them all Christian and spoken from time to time through HIS unworthy servants, as a reminder and a stir up memory, in order to 'abide', honoring HIS SON, CHRIST.
