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My understanding of that passage is that God didn't lie, he just failed to mention that if they didn't eat the apple, they would die as well. Didn't eating the apple just give them the knowledge of death? Or is my theology lacking?
The lie isn't in saying "if you eat this, you will die", it's in saying "in the day that you eat it, you will die".
Eating the fruit supposedly gave them knowledge of good and evil, but indeed knowledge of mortality might be part of what's meant by that. (But maybe not, since shortly afterwards God gets all worried that they might eat from another tree and become immortal.)