God has no right to stop the Devil from tempting us because we have free will to reject the temptation. We should be strong enough not to need God's help with temptation. God would have the right to do as He pleases but just like a parent cannot stop their child doing drugs all they can do is advize. God is doing the same because we are our own people, we must decide for ourselves what is right for us to do and not do. God is always there for those who wish for His advice but He is only doing as a good parent should. If He is the source of all right and wrong then why question Him?

To test mans love for Him.

Well God told man not to eat of the tree where Satan was located at, so really, if they had obeyed with zeal, and stayed far from that tree, they may have never heard a word of temptation, and only had knowledge that they just weren't supposed to eat of that tree.

If God didn't allow Satan to tempt man then what point exactly is there for us to be here and furthermore what reason does man have to believe in God at all? There's a reason that christianity refers to Mankind as flocks of sheep: while sheep are gentle they are rather stupid and lacking of perceptive qualities. Fear serves as a motivational factor and so does vice. Being afraid of acting out vice works to keep the "Flock" from getting out of control. Temptation serves two purposes here: A) the continued survival of the human species (we need to destroy life to live (eat) but too much destruction kills us) and B) Control. Balance comes through conflict, and fear of conflict directs human actions more than anything else you can imagine.

God likes torture, suffering and misery.

I figure that God cared more about having positive qualities, even though they required negative qualities to exist. For example, let's say that timidity is the lack of courage. Satan tempts us to be timid, and so there is lack of courage in certain people. Yet if everyone was courageous, what would courage mean? Nothing. No one would care about courage, because everyone has it. It would, practically, cease to exist. In other words, God allows Satan to influence us into timidity so that there can also be courage. Of course, this applies to all relationships between good and bad qualities. Because there is bad, there is no excess of good, which is useless. Being good when everyone else is good is not commendable, and it would mean nothing to God. He uses Satan as an instrument to make everything better, namely, as a comparison to things that are worse.

I feel that God puts temptation in our lives as faith-building exercises. It's not like He sat there and purposely wished ill on His own creations, hoping that they would mess up so he could introduce sin/pain/death, create Heaven and Hell, and destroy Eden as they knew it. He didn't WANT Eve to fall to temptation at all. He wanted her to have faith in what He had to say, since He DID create her and the entire rest of existence. Her human free will - that self-gratification she'd get if she could find out juuust why that tree's fruit was forbidden - got her and Adam into trouble. Farino is very right in saying that while they had the free will to stray from God, they also had the free will to choose to stay steadfast with Him. If they would have stayed steadfast with Him, our world might just be perfect today. If we can be steadfast with Him, our lives will be blessed. Though, if we go down the road of self-gratification, God will not take hold of our shoulder and stop us. He will let us march face-first into our mistakes and let us feel the full consequences of straying. Though, ain't it a great thing that God gave us a way to repent for that road of mistakes? (that being Jesus Christ :3) Buuut. That's just me and my take on it. It makes sense to me, but the ones that make sense tend to get downrated more, hmm? I expect to get a -24 within the next hour.

Everybodys forgetting that prior to the creation of man, and even before lucifer fell and became satan, THERE WAS A PERFECT WORLD WITHOUT SIN AND DEMONS AND PROBLEMS, but what happened in a perfectly sinless world?, LUCIFER AND OTHER ANGELS TURNED AGAINST GOD. SO if GOD had destroyed satan after he fell and created man in a perfectly sinless TEMPT FREE WORLD, what WAS STOPPING MAN FROM REBELLING AGAINST GOD AND DOING WHAT LUCIFER AND THE FALLEN ANGELS DID.MAN REBELS AGAINT GOD IN A SINFUL WORLD WHERE AN ENEMY EXISTS, SO WHAT WOULD STOP HIM FROM REBELLING IN A SINLESS WORLD WITHOUT A DEVIL.

1. Free Will - Satan's as well as man's 2. Adam could have said no (God only promises to protect you from temptations that you - being you - can't resist.) 3. Had Adam said no, he'd have been an even better, stronger, more faithful and resolute man than he was before. FYI - 1) Satan's name was never Lucifer: that's a bad misunderstanding of the Greek translation of the OT, the Septuagint. 2) Satan didn't "lead a rebellion of angels against God" before Adam's fall -- the ONLY Biblical allusion to an attack by Satan against the Throne (in which he and "a third of the stars are cast down to earth) is in the Revelation, and it happens in the context of, and in response to, the Crucifixion and Resurrection. 3) Satan fell at the time he was cursed: Genesis 3. His sin was perpetrating a sting-operaton/entrapment scheme against God's anointed.

Your question presupposes that I accept your deity and religion. Just think of it as a couple of schoolyard bullies having fun

Assuming he did (which I don't believe for a second) it raises some awkward questions. If God is all knowing then why test in the first place? If God was really testing free will to see what would happen by definition he did not know the outcome hence not all knowing. If he did know the result of temptation in advance then nothing Adam/Eve could do would change that as it must (again by definition) be a set result (God couldn't know that it would maybe do this or maybe do that - that is not knowledge, it would have to be a specific and definite result). This would imply there was no testing of the persons involved as the players actions were pre-determined by God's knowledge. SO they could not have acted any other way yet are punished for it. So I am curious is God all knowing or was he allowing a fair test of his creation's faith in him? Can't be both as far as I can see. So my answer is, I have no idea it all seems a bit odd to me.

I believe God sent satan, See Job chapter 1, Matthew Chapter 4, Even Jesus had to be tempted, The spirit led him into the wilderness to be tempted. Look at revelation chapter20, The devil is released to go out and tempt the nations. Why would God put a tree in the garden and say dont eat from it. The devil didn't sneak in to the garden with a tree there that God told them not to eat from. it's obvious God ordained it to give man a choice and so that those who choose Him would have to subdue it like He said In Genesis 1:28.God wanted to demonstrate his love and give man a choice. There can be no free will without a choice and no victory without a battle.

To see how man would react.

Satan is God. God of the bible is a fictional character created by powerful occultists who intended on hiding occult knowledge from the populace. Satan is the giver of all real knowledge including the occult. Those who wrote the bible thought they could get away with keeping all real knowledge for themselves at the expense of humanity while taking over the world. Satan was given a bad name, one to be avoided and feared to prevent the average Joe from obtaining the powers to advance their souls and fulfill their desires. They did not want any resistance.

Because we are not perfect. This world is not run by perfect people, if it was we would live happy lives with love and honesty. There will be no violence and war between us humans. That is a life only in heaven.

So we can grow spirutally by denouncing desire.

Ask the authors.

I don't recall Satan tempting man (unless you count Jesus)