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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SW-User

Just part of another creation myth.

Joseph Campbell is one author who knows his stuff as far as the "meanings" of all the world's various creation myths are concerned, the similarities, correspondences and differences.

Treating them as actual history will always end in virtual nonsense and contradiction.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

@SW-User Yes they are allegories to convey a truth.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@JimboSaturn [quote]allegories to convey a truth.[/quote]
What truth might that be? All I can see is that whoever wrote them had, at best, a weird idea of what counts as moral behaviour.

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

@ninalanyon I agree, but growing up in a Catholic way, they had ways around all the unsavoury bits. They sanitized the creation myth.