The fool says in his heart there is no God...

I had to laugh because there was nothing else to do.  The commenter insisted that God must lie since He said of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that if you eat you will die.  Of course, the commenter said that Adam and Eve did not die but continued to live and to live long.  Therefore, God must have lied.  You may respond as I initially did that they did certainly die -- not in the moment of their eating but at the time God appointed.  Perhaps there is another answer.

Could it be that they did not die at that moment precisely because God is merciful?  Those who read Genesis 3 do not fail to miss the promise of the one born of woman who will crush the serpent's head though he suffers the bruise of his own heel.  By this we affirm with the early fathers that Jesus did, indeed, began His redemptive work already in the garden of Eden and, literally, just moments after the Fall.  The curse of death will not be overcome until He who overcame it fulfills His saving work.  Therefore, the all-holy God expresses His mercy by countering the curse with the promise. God did not immediately destroy Adam and Eve though they had defied His commands.  They did not immediately suffer the full penalty of the curse they had brought on themselves solely because God had already determined that His mercy would be extended and prevail against the curse.  But not yet.  Even Eve seemed to understand it this way when she proclaimed of her first born Son "God has gotten me the Man!"  The Man is the one of whom God spoke in Genesis 3:15.  

Only God can lay aside His judgment for the sake of His mercy.  We cannot demand it of Him nor can we earn its blessing or merit His favor.  But He can and does have mercy, laying aside the curse for now because of the promise to come.  The word of that promise becomes the message of the patriarchs and prophets as they.  God does not lie.  The commenter was wrong.  The Lord did not misspeak nor did He sacrifice His creation for want of a moment of justice.  His mercy triumphed.  What seems to us like a God who knows not what He wants to do is in reality the God who knows exactly what He must do in order to rescue and redeem His lost jewels.  What kind of fool is upset that God has chosen mercy for an eternity over a moment of justice?  Only one who remains the skeptic of God to make relative what God has set in certainty.  How hard do we try to trip God up in His words when it is the clear word of mercy that He is delivering through His Son, the promise given in Eden to answer the claim of death upon us!  Indeed, the fool says in his heart there is no God and proceeds to prove his own cleverness over the Word of the Lord that endures forever.  In an amazing display of ignorance, the wisdom of man is shown for the sham it is and the foolishness of God wiser than us all.