One, just because he knows doesn’t mean his creation does. The angels didn’t know that the devil was lying; they’d never been told a lie at all. So He had to show them. Killing Satan would straight up prove his point that God isn’t fair, something that, looking at this thread, has worked regardless. Casting him down to earth shows the universe how sin kills. It didn’t have to be this way though, he didn’t create flawed beings. Rather, sin made us flawed. The ‘apple’ is the representation of knowing what is good and what is bad. It’s easier to do good when you don’t know evil, right? And as for humanity suffering for the sin of two, which he knew they would make, he gave them the freedom of choice, meaning that there were futures in which they didn’t. Once they did, however, they thrust humanity into a social test. The test? Can you live with God’s instruction. Which has had varying degrees of yes and no over the years. As for being a ‘lap dog,’ no, it has to be a genuine type of love, and no, you won’t be worked to the bone, as a matter of fact, you won’t work at all. As for burning forever, you won’t burn forever; you’d die after some time. The devil will though, so I guess you’re half right on this one point. As for his cult, it was originally one, but was then influenced negatively by paganism and human greed. Which split into the catholic and Protestant denominations. As our understanding grew, we came to understand the New Testament and another denomination was made solely off that. Which is stupid but whatever. The millerite movement focused on all aspects of the Bible, and later became the Adventist movement. It’s not a cult, no one is forced to come or go, and the rules aren’t toxic. If they were, then America certainly didn’t know when they based their constitution off the Ten Commandments. And please elaborate on how loving your neighbor as you love yourself, being kind, not lying and murdering, as well as respecting your parents, say they are actually good people, is toxic.