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

One reason the fundamentalists/lieralists still cling to the "reality" of obviously mythical stories in the Bible is because of the words recorded of St Paul in Corinthians:-

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. ... "

No Adam, then.........

Fundamentalists realise that if you let the "reality" of the various stories go then the whole house of cards comes falling down.

In fact, if you read the books of those such as Karen Armstrong, it is apparent the authors/compilers of the OT never intended those early stories to be taken literally.

And recognising them as myth in fact does not bring any house down apart from that of the theologies of absurdity.

Sadly, the claim is often made by the Fundamentalists that they are going back to how the Bible was always understood. Literally. This is a fallacy. Such literalism is in fact a modernism, born of mass literacy and the printing press. The Catholic Church, for all its faults, was nevertheless fully aware of just what would happen if the Bible was put into the hands of untutored people.

Again, sadly, though these believers often insist that they are the true christians and decry the lack of faith of others, their teachings more often than not simply drives people away.