3:6 good … pleasant … desirable. Eve’s deception took three forms. That the tree was good for food appealed to her physical appetite—an illicit appetite provoked by a selfish discontent and a distrust of God. That its was pleasant to the eyes excited her emotional appetite—as covetousness grew in her heart, the forbidden fruit looked better and better. And that the fruit was desirable to make one wise provoked her intellectual appetite—she desired knowledge and was tempted by the false promise that
Genesis 3:6