Because. You were the perfect opportunity for them, don't you see? For as much as I wanted your soul to be made fit to ascend, I thought it more likely we would find a new compromise to alter the nature of Sheol before you would change your essential nature. Suffering had brought you to the place where you were - and more suffering wasn't going to reverse that - it would only drive you deeper into despair.

But that is the opposite of what they extol. Now they had someone in hand who could not die, someone at the bottom of the spiritual barrel, mired in darkness. There was no end to what you could be put through, what horrors you would see in the world, and God firmly believed that suffering strengthened souls.

Do you see?