The sinister nature of God is apparent right at the beggining of the Bible.  After rereading "the Fall of Man" as told in Genesis, I came to an interesting observation.  For those of you who have forgotten what it was about and don't particularly feel like going to find a Bible here is Genesis 1, Genesis 2, and Genesis 3.  God is a liar or at least the God mentioned in the Bible is.  We start out with the story of creation.  He creates everything then creates Man and then mentions not to eat from the Tree of Good & Evil.

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Gen 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Gen 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

So here we have the verses that set up the Fall.  Note that in Genesis 1:26 that I put emphasis on us.  This should signal a bell.  Aren't the Jews the founders of Monotheism?  Yes, but that wasn't until a king later in their history.  This is told in Deutoronomy. Deutoronomy is more likely to be hoax of King Josiah then to be a legitimate work of Moses.  Reason is that this book was found during King Josiah's reign in a temple.  I find it hard to believe that Moses simply forget about it.  Second point is that Moses knows exactly where he was buried.  I don't know of how someone can speak of their death and burial in the past tense.  The semitic tribes of yonder years were polytheists.  They believed in a pantheon of gods very much like pagans did and still do.  

Anyway, God promises that if they eat of the Tree of Good & Evil they will die on that day.

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

This is the important part.  The serpent says exactly what will happen: they shall become like gods, knowing good and evil and that they will not die.  Of course Adam and Eve do eventually die, but it definitely was not the way God had orginally said it would happen.

Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Gen 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

The strange part about this prediction is that God acknowledges that Adam and Eve are both like God, knowing good and evil.  God also seems to panic at the thought of them taking the fruit from the Tree of Life and has them kicked out of the garden of Eden.  It's important to note that Eden, as identified by many scholars, was located in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq).  Mesopotamia has been known also as the cradle of civilization.  The first civilization ever recorded known as the Sumerians, resided in Mesopotamia.  If you ever get a chance to pick up a book on Sumerian and Babylonian myths, you will find that the sumerians had many trees of knowledge.  Two of which were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  They had trees that imparted sexual knowledge and that of farming.  These trees of knowledge gave Sumerians an explanation as to why they know the things that they do.  In their mythology everything was created very recently (about 10,000 or so years ago). The seven days mentioned in the Bible correspond to the seven tablets of the Babylonian creation myths (Tablet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).  Why would the sumerians believe Mankind had been created recently but at the same time know so many details of life?  We know that modern man has been around for more than 200,000 years and that Mankind has been around for over 6 million years.  We know that the Semites were in contact with the Sumerians and Babylonians.  This leads and overlaps into another essay.