LUCIFER is not and never was SATAN in the Bible. You have been lied to by SATANISTS your whole life.The tree God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit from was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I believe that's what it was, but that "good and evil" actually represented opposites in general. Without being exposed to both good and evil, Adam and Eve would not be able to distinguish between them. I doubt very much that they really appreciated how wonderful their garden paradise was, having never known anything with which to compare it. Once they were cast out of the Garden, they came to know all kinds of opposites: health and sickness, happiness and sorrow, success and failure, etc. It wasn't just "good and evil," in very general terms, but everything we judge as being good or evil, right or wrong. They came to have knowledge of everything that their limited understanding in Eden restricted them from being able to comprehend. And this knowledge was actually critical to their ultimate progression on the path that would take them back to God.In folktales and mythologies, apple symbolize immortality, man's fall to sin, temptation, and knowledge. A serpent deceives Eve into eating fruit from the forbidden tree.As a result, the apple became a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man and sin.Why would God tell Adam and Eve NOT to eat from the tree of good an evil? The fruit exposed them to the truth. There is good and evil. Why would God want to deceive them?Why would God punish them for seeking the truth?Think bout the role of original sin in Catholicism. It is the basis for baptism and catholic guilt and it doesn't make any sense from an all merciful and all loving God now does it?Satan said to them that God had told them a lie, and they wouldn’t die if they ate of that particular tree.Lucifer is said to be the light.