Now behold, it was not expedient that man should be reclaimed from this temporal death, for that would destroy the great plan of happiness.
God is not in a hurry to relieve us of temporal death, for it serves a useful purpose. It allows us to be mortal and to experience mortal time. With Adam's fall, life had a beginning and an end, and time became linear. We could thus have distinguishable pasts, presents, and futures. We could repent and put things in our past. We could exercise our agency in the present in the hope of creating a better tomorrow. Without a beginning and an end with linear time in between, we could not repent, for our sins would be ever in the present tense. God needed us to experience time as part of our mortal probation.
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