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You seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that God created man as stupid and lacking free will. If your going to buy into the garden of eden story, then you need to go back a few chapters and read where God created man in his own image. According to your arguments God would therefore be a being with no intelligence and lacking free will.
Satan didn't give mankind intelligence. Satan tempted man, trying to drive a wedge between God and his creation. In no way are Satan's actions to be seen as benevolent towards man, his aim in the story was to sow discord between God and man, to attempt to pervert God's creation.
Satan was a pissy eliteist who threw a major temper tantrum when daddy decided to have another child. He led a revolt and was soundly thrashed. Lacking the true power he so wantonly desired, he therefore spends an eternity attempting to destroy that which was innocent at the start to try and get back at a father who refused to give him power and status in the universe satan thought he deserved.
You can stick with your revisionist view of Satan as being just another misunderstood hero if you like. But that is certainly not the way he is viewed in Judeo-Christian mythology.
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