No, they were not originally created like that. Death came to the whole creation too only after humans sinned, according to Paul in Romans. So either that worm didn't exist or it mutated to do such things after humans ate the forbidden fruit.
It's easy, God just made the forbidden tree so that humans would have a choice in free will to obey God or not. He didn't MAKE the eat it. I don't understand why this is so hard a concept to grasp.
It's because God is seen as a designer, creator who has infinite knowledge and more importantly- intention. Does that mean you think 'he' didn't mean for the negative consequences to happen after humans ate the forbidden fruit? Surely 'he' knew and realised what would happen. So- 'he'
wanted for there to be the possibility of suffering. Especially if humans didn't bend to 'his' will. 'He'
wants to punish people. Clearly- 'he' enjoys it and feels justified in doing it. Otherwise, 'he' would have created a species that doesn't question. That automatically obeys. Or, nothing would have been off limits. Or, when they broke the rules, they would have gotten a strong reprimand but it would have ended there.
What kind of being insists on that kind of loyalty? What kind of being goes on to punish billions of generations because their great, great, great to almost infinity long lost relative ate some fruit they weren't supposed to?
It's not that it's hard to grasp. It's that it just seems so perplexing to me. Why create a species that will likely
want to disobey you
unless you want to punish it? I just don't understand the why. It seems sadistic to me.
The crux of it for me is- If all this is about teaching us a lesson, I simply don't like the style. I don't think that punishing creatures. Especially when they haven't done anything wrong themselves is the way to get the best out of them. So, I'm really hoping there isn't a God because I can't get my head around how they could be fair or loving.
That all said, it's not terribly fair of me to argue it because I have strong doubts as to whether a God even exists. Plus, I think religion can be a comfort to people in life and I think that can be a good thing. So, I hope I haven't offended you.