>>41315002 (OP)
>God said they would die if they ate it.
the lie was the implication that they would not die otherwise.
because they would -> they had not yet eaten from the tree that gives immortality, thus they were mortal.
some christians try to use apologetics with olympic level mental gymanstics:
somewhere it says that "a day in God's eyes is like a 1000 years for us" and Adam/Eve dying on the same "day" is fulfilled because they died reaching the tender age of 960 or so. so its still within a day.
but this is beyond the point.
God lied.
Not only that, he had bad intentions: suppress Adam/Eve so that they do not become like "one of us".
Btw. the "God" word there is not the creator God, its gods (elohim), i.e. created beings. in abrahamic lingo, the best word for it is "angels".
the best secular word for it is: aliens.
other religions label them "gods".
its a deep rabbit hole, but if you wanna go down into it, check out:
gnosticism and the sumerian tablets
basically: an alien race created a hybrid species (us, mankind), with parts of their own dna (thus we look like the aliens), because they were lazy and wanted to delegate work to us (slavery).
because they were committing cosmic crime (imprisoning divine sparks into lesser vehicles), a high angel (lucifer/jesus) threw a monkey's wrench into the plan: he stole the "fire" from them and gave it to mankind.
thus the human vessel now not only is like "one of us", but is superior
so what ensued was continual suppression (turned of telepath at the tower of babel, sprayed the skies to turn off other higher faculties) and are trying to deal with the situation.
another alien fraction (peacemakers, huge alliance) have got wind of it, now they are shitting themselves and are doing a hail mary try: hybridize themselves with the human race, create offspring they can incarnate into, to escape the law
while they have higher intellect, they are morally inept.
you already know them: the virtue signalers, the radical leftists