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No. Knowledge of fire was not knowledge. The fear was that after being given fire man would rise above the beast by himself, become wise (ON HIS OWN) and perhaps or maybe even inevitably cast aside the Gods.

Maybe giving the fire and denying the fruit were both done to help us.

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