The serpent’s enticement is for her to open her eyes to see and to know something previously unseen and unknown: to see the opportunity of taking something she now perceives for her own exclusive best interest. Seeing becomes knowing. What God created as good and delightful becomes twisted and used for evil by being consumed solely for one’s own pleasure and self-aggrandizement. Thus, evil is neither a new creation, nor the absence of good: it is the corruption of that which is good by using it for