Their eyes were not opened in the sense that they received knowledge (Adam had already been trusted with maintaining the Earth, presiding over and naming all of

Their eyes were not opened in the sense that they received knowledge (Adam had already been trusted with maintaining the Earth, presiding over and naming all of the animals on Earth - a task that can not be performed by a monkey. Moreover Adam was already capable of intelligent dialogue and reasoning about concepts such as loneliness, as well as some poetic production “this is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”), but rather that they had been lied to by the serpent who was actually Satan (the original lie: “your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and bad”). This would have been a convincing lie, as it could have easily been reasoned that serpents do not talk and hence perhaps the serpent ate the fruit and now talks from first hand experience. Of course this were not the case because we know that the serpent were used as a puppet by other references. Eating the fruit didn’t give them any knowledge of good and bad - they already knew that disobeying God was bad. Otherwise punishing them would have been unjust. Interpret the lie this way: anyone deciding for themselves what is good or bad actually then “knows what is good or bad” (challenging objective morality). Moreso Eve was tempted by the prospect to “be like God”, having no doubt observed the activity of the spirit creatures in the garden. Some believe that the resulting feeling of nakedness and desire to “hide from the face of God” was then wanting to avoid fronting up to God because they feared the consequences and felt highly insecure, in much the same way that a toddler (or a puppy) instinctively hides or tries to cover themselves due to guilt if they do wrong. After all, to literally feel naked would be unusual because they are completely alone (in a physical sense) in the garden, so there is nobody to spy upon them. Now, think about this: if Adam was not deceived (in 1 Tim 2:14 it says Adam was not deceived) but Eve was deceived and had now sinned (Gen 3:13), and Eve offered the fruit to Adam not immediately but some time afterwards, did he not have a choice between pleasing God or pleasing his beautiful wife? And as for any typical love story he chose to grow old and die with his wife rather than allow Eve to be subjected to death alone. This is my favourite love story by the way.