Is Christianity truly a monotheistic religion?

[Perndog]

That would be why God called it the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, because it gave them the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge that nudity was (supposedly) a bad thing. Why does so much symbolism need to be read into it when the passage is so explicit that a literal interpretation serves exactly the same purpose?

Furthermore, if it's a matter of interpretation alone, you are no more likely to be right than I am, no matter what precedence or any theological authority has to say. Regardless of what's happened since it was written, we're all reading the same book, and we are all intelligent enough to come up with equally viable explanations.

EDIT: Oh, and one last thing, the source of the "tree's fruit makes us like God" deal:

Genesis 3:22 And God said, behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.