“And if God insisted on holiness and perfection of man, why didn’t he just make man holy and perfect, and the world eternally blissful, and spared himself and the world all the blood, guts, holocausts and suffering?”
Do you ask that rhetorically or with the expectation of an answer? and yes, it matters.
Actually, the question was mine, and yes I wrote that as an invitation to those who have "eyes" and "ears" to let me in on the secret. :)