For some reason I can't fathom, Eve wanted to know good and evil. She chose the knowledge of good and evil over the knowlegde of life.
Weren't the Galations and the Colossians being drawn back under the law by some? You can't be perfected (matured) or given life by the law, it kills. You've fallen from grace if you live by the law?
Jhn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jhn 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.