The Importance of Free Will in Moral Decision Making

Many people see this as one of the foremost objections to the existence of a loving God. Crucially free will gives people the ability, as you say, in moral decision making to make good choices and bad choices. Of course, there's a price to pay, but it's a great gift. And I think it's worth the price. We're not just robots. Our choices can only make a small difference to things, but they can and that's crucial. It seems at least possible that God could have actualised this kind of world where persons exist and they just experience pleasurable states.