Something I don't understand about the bible

Genesis 2 16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[d] of it you shall surely die.”

God told Adam that the day he eats from that tree, he will surely die. But Adam did not die the day he ate the tree. He was just banned from Eden and was forced to live a harder life. He may have lost his immortality, but he didn't die for a long time later. So if God told Adam he would die the day he ate the apple, but than Adam didn't die. Wouldn't that mean God told Adam a lie?

Also, if God knows all and sees all, as people who believe the bible is God's complete word believe, didn't he know the serpent would successfully trick Eve and Adam into eating the apple? If he really didn't want them to eat from it, why didn't he simply block entry to it? Why did he allow a cunning creature that he knew would successfully tempt them into eating the tree, even after he told them not too.
Almost seems like it was God's plan all along to have them eat from the tree.

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robb65 · 56-60, M

There are passages that say a 1000 years is equal to a day, and he died just short of a 1000 years.

Sweetguy024 · 36-40, M

@robb65 so with that idea, was the creation week really 7 days or was it 7000 years?

robb65 · 56-60, M

@Sweetguy024 Yes, maybe. Keep in mind that "day and night" weren't divided until the 4th "day" so there would have been nothing before that point to divide time as we know it by. You start running into problems when you take the creation story as literal.

The word for days (yomim) gets translated in some places as days and other places as years so the meaning can be somewhat flexible and it isn't always clear, in some passages the translators disagree on which it it supposed to be.