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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[quote]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? [/quote]

Basic assumption you have is that you are thinking a day is a earth day comprising 24 hours..

Adam died at the age of 930 years..

The Bible says::
2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, [big]that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day[/big]."

So Gods day is not the same as an earth.. this can be even seen in the story of creation.. God worked for a number of""[quote]Days[/quote]"" before on the third day He created the first earth day..

(Genesis 1:16-19) "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. {17} And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, {18} And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. {19} [big]And the evening and the morning were the fourth day[/big]."

So the first earth day was created on the fourth "[big]day[/big]" of creation.. Therefore the days of creation could not have been earth days..

[quote]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?[/quote]

Yes He did foreknow.. But He also foreknew how He would overcome satans sabotage through the Atonement of the LORD Jesus Christ.. God gave satan enough rope to hang himself.. satan was trapped in his own cunning.. So that by demonstration God could put to an end satans claim to Godhood.. satans claim that God was unjustified to be the One and Only God of all existence..

[quote]If he really didn't want them to eat from it, why didn't he simply block entry to it?
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Because if you want to create beings who can decide to have a genuine relationship with you.. You need to give them the ability to reject a relationship with you.. Otherwise your just creating automated Zombies who cannot choose.. Therefore God must indeed value beings with the ability to make genuine choices..

[quote]Why did he allow a cunning creature that he knew would successfully tempt them into eating the tree,[/quote]

To catch that cunning creature in their own free willed evil deed.. to demonstrate to all the other angels why satan was unjustified in being a god equal with God..