The Beguilement: All Good Stories Have a Plot That Thickens

Enter, stage center, the Serpent. All good stories have a protagonist. On who takes a leading part in a novel, drama, or story. A competitive type. The leader of a cause.

Eve, the first woman, didn't pick the fruit from the Tree of Life. Satan, a Fallen angel, taking on the form of a Serpent, beguiled her that mankind could be a god. As an equal to God. Even the Serpent wanted to achieve that endeavor. So he suggested the Tree of Knowledge. If she only had the same Knowledge as God, how wonderful that would be and how great she would become. If she only knew. Adam's Rib, of the same flesh and blood, picked the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adam and Eve ate of that fruit and their eyes were opened to that other additional knowledge and discernment. Of Good and Evil. That they could Be. That they could Become.

Internet Fair Use - Gustave Dore's Innocence Beguiled

As the Story unfolds, Innocence is beguiled. All is not well within the kingdom.