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Remember kids, God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and created EVERYTHING; including evil and suffering.
This means that God created evil, knowing full well what that meant for us humans. He knew Adam was going to eat the apple, and lie to him about it, but still got angry that he was lied to; so angry that he damned the rest of humanity as punishment.
So if God created evil, and knew what that would do for all of humanity, and it was a part of his great plan to do so, then God must also be evil.
You can’t have it both ways. He can’t be good and not evil if he created evil. He also lets it happen. He can’t be good and not evil if he knows every mistake we will make, and knowing the impact of our mistakes (i.e., the other people it affects). This makes God culpable for our sins, yet he is not held accountable for his inaction.
Think of it quantum mechanically, God is aware of all possible outcomes, of which Adam lying to Him was but one of the many possible consequences of free will (note that the forbidden fruit gave them knowledge of their nakedness, they already had free will). Free will is inherently incompatible with determinism unless we account for all possibilities resulting of free will. Quantum mechanics and superposition theory is the closest we can get to understanding the machinations of God. Even then it still doesn’t help in the least.