Why Free Will?

If God knew that people would die without being saved, why did he give us free will? Wouldn’t it have been easier to skip straight to us all living in Heaven, as we will be when Jesus returns?

God Bless

Q. If God knew that people would die without being saved, why did he give us free will? Wouldn’t it have been easier to skip straight to us all living in Heaven, as we will be when Jesus returns?

God Bless.

A. Your love for God and obedience to His word have no value to God unless you grant them willingly and voluntarily in an environment of clear alternatives. His goal wasn’t to populate Heaven with a bunch of “Stepford wives” but to have children around who chose Him as their Father out of their own free will. (John 1:12-13) Yes, in many respects it would be easier all around if we had no choice but to come to Him. But then our eternity would mean nothing to either Him or us.