The knowledge gained in the garden, the knowledge of good and evil, failed to produce righteousness. What was begun in sin, disobedience to the command of God, could not possibly produce its opposite. What was gained by the knowledge? The only thing I can see that was gained was a knowledge of sinfulness. As Lewis Grizzard said, naked simply means you have no clothes on, nekkid means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to something. That was what happened in the garden, the transition from naked to nekkid.
What does Jesus say is the first work of the Holy Spirit? He will convict the world of sin (John 16.8). The Holy Spirit, though, is also described as Comforter. Comfort is what was not gained through the eating of the fruit of the tree in the garden, only knowledge. God had another way of giving us knowledge concerning good and evil, the Holy Spirit, living in us, who convicts us of sin, righteousness and judgment and also testifies to the cure for sin, faith in Jesus.
The knowledge we gain by the Holy Spirit is the truth about us and God. The truth is that we have sinned and fallen short of His glory, we must hide ourselves from Him yet the fullness of truth is that Jesus died a sinner's death so we can come out of hiding and receive garments of righteousness (see the high priest Joshua in Zechariah 3 for a picture of a believer's reception in the heavenly courts.)
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