"Joe" wrote
Satan introduced sickness, pain, suffering and death into the creation
as a consequence of that first sin. ....

Not so Joe! In the original Genesis myth, the Elohim created everything
including Adam and Lillith, as equals in their own images. Elohim YHWH
wanted both as pets and, noting Adam's gullibility, he made Eden as an
enticing cage. Lillith refused, went off on her own and gave birth to sons
and daughters who later married Adam and Eve's kids. But Adam opted for the
easy life. He got horny but YHWH couldn't create life so he cloned Eve out
of Adam.

Satan was another Elohim who didn't approve of YHWH's schemes so he went to
visit Adam and discovered that YHWH had dishonestly told them that they
would die is they became wise and immortal - ie if they ate of the trees
that provided a knowledge of good and evil and of everlasting life. Satan
told Eve that YHWH had lied so she and Adam ate the fruit and came to know
that good and evil existed in the world. This freaked YHWH out! "Oy! What if
they also become immortal!? They'll be like Elohim, instead of like pets!!"
So he set up a mechanism "flaming sword" to assure that didn't happen.

That version was redacted to suit the patriarchal Hebrew society when it got
written into The Book of Moses and thence into the Old Testament but both
agree that Adam's punishment was having to work for a living and that Eve's
was painful childbirth - NOT sickness, pain, suffering and death. It was
your god YHWH who tried to keep Adam and his clone ignorant and it was YHWH,
not Satan, who forbid them everlasting life.(Gen 3:22, 23).

Adam and Eve's descendents must have inherited a double dose of Adam's
gullibility since Eve was his clone because they continually support
churches that claim to know good and evil and offer eternal life, the only
things their god (Elohim) forbid them to have. It follows that Judaism,
Christianity and Islam all do Satan's work - right? Meanwhile, children of
the Goddess, called Lillith and 100 other names, are spared this
foolishness.

You may note that this tale parallels evolution - peoples who stayed in
comfortable climes (the garden) never developed as far as those who left.
For example, nobody living in a paradise tamed elephants and horses.