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God gave humans free will but Satan introduced sin to them. You can think of it like him inventing sin. God said that humans' love was only really valid if they were able to choose.

Yeah it makes God kind of a self righteous dick, or something so intelligent he's closer to a finely tuned perfection machine than a human, or limited by his own lack of free will. It makes Satan a more interesting anti-hero, but Satan only has powers given to him by God, he's completely under control by God.

How hell came to be a place of pure suffering is not really well established aside from the fact that it naturally became that way from the absence of God, though several times it's implied that God set it up that way.

There is no God or Satan, but if there were, and the stories of the Bible were accurate, then no, Satan didn't introduce sin to mankind; God did, because God is the one whose expectations define sin.

Satan didn't invent sin by telling Eve to eat from the tree, and Eve didn't invent sin from eating from the tree; God invented sin by putting the tree in the garden knowing that Adam and Eve would eat from it, telling them not to, then holding it against them when they did. Nothing counts as a sin without God to hold it against someone.