Steven, Would you rather have been made robotic? We have the ability to choose. Take that away and God would be called cruel for not allowing us to make our own decisions.
Here is the Jesus story. God became man in the flesh and removed anything you have done that would separate you from Him. He wants you to use the gift, and never guns for you for having done so. If you accept Christ's gift and never do 1 good work in your life, you have been saved by Christ. Because it is His record, not yours that is submitted to the Judge.
What God understands is that Satan is the driver of the truck, and charges him with murder, not the child, not the one who saved the child. Unto him God gives a great amount of righteousness, because there is no bigger gift than giving your life for another. It is what His own child did.
God doesn't gun for us, He forgives us. You have God and Satan, and their properties confused.
God designed man to never be tempted by evil or even know that it exists. We were immune and dominate as long as one single rule was obeyed.
Free will. It wasn't. Satan usurped man as having dominion over all, for a very short amount of eternal time. And then God commuted the sentence of death due to sin, by drawing all condemnation on to Himself and then returned to prove His success by overcoming death. And then God gave us a free lawyer who sits right beside Him to advocate on our behalf. What more do you require?
