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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Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Sweetguy024 There is no verse that says that Adam and Eve ate apples.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Diotrephes Point of Order The apple is botanically a recent creation. Certainly not going back several thousand years BC. Now of course, one cant be certain; however it is most likely that the fruit of the tree in question. (If it existed at all) was a pear..😷

Sweetguy024 · 36-40, M

@Diotrephes that is true, it only said it was a fruit. Never specified what type of fruit it was

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@Sweetguy024 [quote]that is true, it only said it was a fruit. Never specified what type of fruit it was[/quote]

The fruit was the knowledge of good and evil (right and wrong). After they ate it they became as knowledgeable as God about those things and it pissed him off because that meant that they no longer had to rely upon his dictates about what to do and not do. That brought up the Moses character who concocted a long list of things that people had to comply with or get stoned to death for violating them. That was the end of personal freedom and every government has followed that model. We all have to follow some control freak's rules or lose our freedom and maybe our lives.