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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Renaci · 36-40

And that's how you know it is a false god of a false religion. And that is just ONE plot hole of many.

In the original story it was the serpent who was the hero and that gave humanity the power of the gods but yahweh in his fear and jealousy took away the tree of life so humans would at least not become full Gods.

[quote]Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever...”[/quote]

This parallels many other thief/trickster gods all over the world, not just local cultures. In cultures the world over stealing from the other gods and giving to humanity such as fire/light by Prometheus and The Native American Raven are common motifs.

Also the neolithic culture of Dilmun which is the origin of the story, were worshipers of serpents, going so far as to bury them with their dead. But the ancient Hebrews in stealing almost everything including Yahweh from the Edomite tribe, the panatheon from the Canaanites, Noah's ark from the epic of Gilgamesh, also stole the creation story from the mythological golden age of the Dilmun cultures.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0471.2007.00277.x

https://ngwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gwat.12214#:~:text=In%20the%20Gilgamesh%20epic%20Dilmun,taking%20place%20in%20the%20region.

So the ancient Hebrews in stealing from their enemies turn the hero and villains around and made the bad guy the good guy and the good guy the bad guy. After all the enemy of my enemy must be my friend.

So having inconsistent plot holes is completely normal when the story was stolen and twisted to fit a socio/politico/religious agenda. And again this is only ONE hole out of mannny holes in the bible.

It is not a perfect book, not the word of anything you should consider a god and it is far from being a moral guide on anything.