Argument from evil, restated

[Ryantology]

Hardly. A more apt analogy would be that I created some robots and allowed one to talk another into breaking a rule I had set for them.

The tree would be the loaded gun. If there's no tree, there's no sin. I really cannot see what was the necessity of the entire farce, what goal God wanted to achieve that could not have been done without blatant entrapment.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but all you have to do is replace "is malevolent" with "has his own purposes."

You could do that with any possible example of malevolence.