If god's creation was perfect, how did humanity fall? Why was there another being tempting them to disobey?

Surely a perfect creation wouldn't attempt to persuade humans to disobey god.
Surely a perfect creation wouldn't, in the face for such persuasion, decide to disobey god.

I think the easy answer is "Free will! Free will!" but a perfect creation acting under its own free will would understand the correct course and take it.
Only a flawed creation could do otherwise.

So...was god's creation perfect? If so, how?

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

The deeper ancestor of Christianity, via the ancient Hebrew culture, was Zoroastrianism, once a major but now very small religion. That did not invent Satan as we might see that character now; but it had two gods, one of good, the other of bad, in a sort of divine balance.

So the later attempts to explain this imperfection by being the work of some parallel entity of evil warping human behaviour, might be a (deliberately?) distorted version of the original.

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Zoroastrianism originated in Persia. That is now Iran, which does still respect the old faith constitutionally; if only because the Iranians are very proud of much of their Persian ancestry.