The answer to the OP is that God is ruler of Heaven and Earth and he gave Satan dominion over man with certain conditions. If you don't accept that then go ask Buddha.
So you are so poor in moral intelligence and judgement that you cannot decide a moral question. Seems your religion is keeping you well dumbed down.
Their plan is working.
We all do as much as we can in seeking knowledge. The problem for unfortunate Christians is the perception of the terms knowledge and truth.
The idea of Jesus dying for us was created to produce a sense of indebtedness that the population is supposed to feel.
The idea of the fall was created to have people interpret the scripture in a way that makes them think that seeking knowledge is a sin.
This makes it easier for Christians to pushed to become unthinking sheeple that can be easily manipulated, --- just as the re-writers of the bible and interpretation biased preachers want.
Christianity can thus profit from fear and indebtedness in this manner.
In the end, knowledge and truth are for our own enlightenment. Seeking untruth is a form of transgression and that is what priests and imams try to produce. Priests and imams are quite skilled in helping people lie to themselves.
Conditioning that some would call indoctrination or brainwashing when pushed to it's present extreme.
Strange that our own governments give tax credits and exemptions to organizations that basically spend their time lying to people. You and I subsidize this legalized fraud by paying the tax shortfall.
We are thus all paying for priests and imams to lie to the gullible and vulnerable.
There ought to be a law against that.
Regards
DL
P.S. Did you see my question in post 22?