Free Will

  To understand free will, it is best to consider why the creator of it decided to do it? But how can we know the mind of God, and is it possible to understand his thinking? The short answer is that we can't, because who can know the mind of God? But surely, because we were made in his image, it is fair to assume that we should have some insight.
  With this in mind, I was thinking about the gift of eternal life! Now I know what we get out of it, but I asked myself, what does God get out of it? A fair question don't you think? God himself has said, Your thoughts are not my thoughts, and certainly this is true. But again, having been made in his image, perhaps the process of considering a problem is done in the same way by Him, and is similar to how we would think about it?
  Human beings consider the deeper meanings in life, it is what separates us from the animals. Questions like, Why is there life, what if there wasn't, why are we here and what is our purpose, and what would it be like if I was never born? But again, these questions are all about us. What is it that God wants, and what does he get from all of this? I will tell you my theory, but it is only a theory, for God has not told this to me, in fact, I haven't even asked him?
  I believe that God wants a people who choose to honor and love him by their own free will. He could have designed us like the angels and the heavenly hosts who know nothing else but to honor and worship him. The first time humankind exercised this free will was in the garden when they decided to defy God and eat of the forbidden fruit. This defiance was the original sin, and from these first two humans, all are born with sin! So what God wants then, is for that same free will which defied him, to be used to accept his offer of eternal life! The problem with this theory, is that it doesn't make sense when you consider that Lucifer defied him, and he hadn't been created with free will? How was that possible? There are two ways you could go with that question. One being that it happened just as God had planned it, or, that he hadn't anticipated that anyone would defy him? Because it had never happened before, that he had no reason to consider it? The concept of free will was a revelation to God? Certainly, God reacted swiftly by banishing Lucifer to the earth, but if it did happen like this, then this is when the decision was made to design man with a free will, that He would have a race of beings who choose to worship him of their own free will, rather then by design, and in this, man is one of a kind!