God is a tyrant in the OT. Think back to Genesis. The first two
people, Adam and Lilith (if you're going by the Apocrypha, which is
actually a part of the Bible but in a separate book). Lilith got
banished to being a demon queen of succubi ONLY because she would not be
submissive to Adam. That's where Eve comes in. She was made of Adam's
rib instead of the dust of the Earth like Lilith was. So she was
supposed to be lesser than him, and not have a mind of her own. (This is
all pretense for the actual point here)
Eden.
Adam and Eve. They're out there being all pure and junk, just talking
to God all day. He tells them not to eat the forbidden fruit. Now I want
you to take note of the name of the tree: The Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil. Without that fruit, think about what A&E's minds were
like. They had NO IDEA what evil even WAS, let alone what GOOD was! They
had no one else to talk to other than God, so when Satan showed up and
tricked Eve, it wasn't her fault. She didn't know he was evil. She
didn't know God was good. Her mind literally could not know, because God
hadn't given them the CAPACITY to know the difference! So it's no
wonder she took it, she might have even thought the serpent WAS God just
taking a different form (because he can do that).
If
that seems a little off topic, reason me this: Why didn't God want
A&E to know the difference between good and evil? Why didn't he want
them to think about that? Without the knowledge of right and wrong, you
would just do things that you're told to do. God wanted slaves like
angels, not free-thinking people! He never wanted humans to HAVE
critical thinking, and he was PISSED that Satan had given it to them. So
he punishes Satan AND THE ENTIRETY OF THE REST OF THE HUMAN RACE
FOREVER by making them bear the worst consequences of the most innocent
mistake ever made by humans, ever.
The
implications of this action are also damning. The "free will" God has
claimed to have given us is a lie. Satan gave us free will and God hates
that. That's why, even though we have "free will," if we choose WRONG,
we will be punished FOREVER in a WORLD OF UNENDING HORRORTERROR with no
chance to leave, ever. That's not free will, that's holding a gun to
your head!