A Futile Attempt

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eye, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and ate.

When Eve ate from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, was she was trying to do something evil? If we think this, we miss a crucial point. Eve wasn't trying to do something wrong. She was trying to do something good. The serpent had told her that to eat from the tree would cause her to "be like God."
  Eve's deception came in forgetting that she was already like God. She had been  created in His image. It was an unnecessary and futile attempt to do anything to improve herself.
   Don't fall for the lie that you need to do something to be more godly. Your Union with Jesus Christ has created you in righteousness and holiness. Accept who you are, and don't sin by trying to do something God has said not to do, even if you think it's good thing.