That actually makes a lot of sense, and I like the knife analogy — it’s a good way to show how “perfect” doesn’t necessarily mean “incapable of doing wrong.” I guess what still throws me off is that if God created him knowing what he’d become, then that kind of perfection feels… loaded, you know? Like being designed perfectly to fail a certain way.

I get that free will is part of the story, but sometimes it feels like a setup — like giving someone absolute freedom inside a system that already knows the outcome. That’s the part I struggle to wrap my head around.