A slight modification with profound consequences.
Some folks say that it wasn't knowledge, per se, but the knowledge of good and evil. In other words, substituting one's own evaluation of the situation instead of God's.
Some can say that was the creation of the ego. And that Christ's death, "for our sins" was symbolic of the death of the ego. Buddhism is quite direct about this, Christianity as practiced today is the antithesis.
Arf