IMHO it was a set up. You create two people who don't know what death or lying is. You tell them not to eat the tree and stretch the truth about dying if you eat it and then Satan goes and tells them that they won't die and it will make them more like their favorite being ... well why wouldn't they believe him?

Even you or I would have difficulty avoiding being persuaded by a super powered being gifted in lying.

But all that aside... Why put the tree there in the first place?? To test them? God doesn't need to do tests. He is supposed to already know.

yeah cause that is a believable scenario that a loving father would tell his children not to eat something then since they do curses them all forever after

If you don't want a teenager to do something don't tell them no to do it.

They were given free will... and they used it.

Yeah now we're all screwed because of them😮

And my life is full of thorns and thistles.