“Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil [...] is the symbol of human free will.”
The tree is symbol of what it says it is – knowledge of good and evil. The symbol of free will is the choice Adam and Eve made.
When you choose to divide world into good and evil, you love the good and hate the evil. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but while dividing the world in that way humans tend to lose sight of the fact about God which Isaiah 45:7 highlights, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”
In other words, by choosing the duality (ultimately, the duality of God and the other) you lose sight of the non-dual reality.
You lose sight of the fact which you will find stated in Psalms 82:6 and paraphrased by Jesus in John 10:34, “I said you are Elohim and all of you are sons of the Most High.” And losing sight of that amounts to death. Simply because you lose sight of your true nature and innate immortality. Naturally, you also lose sight of Eden. You become blind to it, which amounts to the same as being driven out (it's a causal result, and causality is "God's doing").
That was the reason why Jesus' ministry basically revolved around unconditional love; that's the reason behind not judging and loving your enemies. Ultimately, even everything the symbol of Devil, who's literally your brother, represents. You still may hate his evil and absolutely disagree with him, yet you know that you are equal. Hence, it radically changes all your approaches.
However –
In the end, it all boils down to knowing God (which equals to absolute self-knowledge), as you cannot truly unconditionally love your enemies and treat them as equal to you before that. Well, perhaps you can approach it from the angle of love, and once you truly love your enemies yours and God's true nature is revealed to you, but that's just something I assume – it would make sense, because those two “things” go hand in hand.
And just as a side note, the word for “snake” in that story in Hebrew also means, "to practice divination, divine, observe signs, learn by experience, diligently observe, practice fortunetelling, take as an omen"; "copper, bronze"; "image (of serpent)"; "to whisper. Pi. - נִיחֵשׁ to divine, to make action dependent on an omen, to augur."
Just a food for thought because, although I despise your chutzpah to talk about things you know absolutely nothing about just to earn some buck and get some fleeting fame (or what not) by which you, nevertheless, reinforce various delusions about Jesus and God of pretty large number of people, I would still prefer you to know God beyond any doubt ;)
