Peg writes:
According to Jesus, the serpent lied. he called Satan "a liar and the the father of the Lie"
Yeah, he would, given that he or his father was the one who told the lie (the relationship there is kinda fuzzy). Seriously, if your best argument against someone lying is their word, you are not really sharp on the whole deception bit.
Peg writes:
And A&E did die, we know that for a certainty.
No, we are not really sure they ever existed in the first place. But the story tells us that God specifically prevented them from attaining eternal life which would have happened if he had not intervened, so basically God killed them. He did it because they were improving themselves and were going to become like gods, and because he is a jealous god he could have no competition. So basically he killed Adam and Eve out of jealousy.
Peg writes:
he could have just done away with A&E and Satan so he had no opposers, and no one to question him or accuse him of something that is obviously false.
Well, he did just that. He sent Adam, Eve, and Lucifer away, and the first two specifically so they would not be competition for him. He does not want them gone completely, he wants them to suffer and die for whatever reason.
If God wanted people to live forever, why would he specifically say that he did not want them to live forever and actively work against it?