The universe is just one enormous 'Soul Filtering machine'

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Aside from the need to defend the "necessity" of the Christian salvation drama, what is the point of bringing up 'perfect knowledge'? That's your phrase, Steve. Jormungandr merely asked why God couldn't have imbued humanity with the knowledge that would have (again, your words) "illuminat[ed] the consequence of sin and therefore eliminate[ed] the desire for it." Where does 'perfect' enter into that? Was not the Law engraved on every heart? Seems like a small additional step that should be quite easy for a powerful, loving god to accomplish. Furthermore, you can't argue that it would have violated God's plan that humans have free will and then turn around and claim that such conditions exist in Heaven but are not logically incompatible with the idea of free will there.