“but what Satan and possibly Adam and Eve came up with, an unholy plan to expel God “. Not the way I read it. Satan planned it. Eve desired to be equal with God. Adam saw no way out of the trouble Eve got into. Adam should have had more trust in God being able to solve his problem of Eve being in trouble. While Eve should have been humble and seen how God was gracious to provide all the goodness He gave.
Adam was with Eve during the temptation and did not stop her from eating, which was his responsibility as the head of the home,
He should have stepped right up the moment Satan misquoted the one verse of Scripture God gave to man. Somehow there was a breakdown of communication between what God told Adam and what Eve said what the command was.
God never told them they couldn’t touch the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He only said not to eat of it.
Adam blew it on several levels and missed more than one opportunity to intervene.
Since God gave him authority over all creation, he could have simply ordered Satan to leave and that would have been the end of it.
Then the question arises of whether each and every individual would be faced with that same choice and whether sin would not have entered the world at some point or another.
The point of the thread was to study what happened, including by asking questions. So Satan had a plan, but did it sound like one to, say, Eve? A very simple one. By eating the fruit, according to Satan, they’d become like God, and so wouldn’t have to worry about God punishing their disobedience. Eve first told Satan that God had said if they ate, or just touched, the fruit, they’d die, but then Satan reassured her by saying that God was lying and just didn’t want them to know that eating the fruit would make them as gods. “Nothing to worry about, Eve. God just doesn’t want you to be equal to Him, so He lied to you.” And however you look at it, it was rebellion against God’s Lordship.