I think free will exists because without it we would be robot toys of God and not living creatures that can choose to love Him back.

Real love requires free will and the risk of free will is the potential to sin. The fall of man was not inevitable but always possible.

If we lived in a multiverse with many dimensions then free will would echo across them and God would see every possible outcome but that doesn't mean He's controlling the choices even though He controls all universes and can condescend into them and effect changes. It is a boundary He has given Himself not to cross, I think.

The Shocking Alternative by C.S. Lewis Doodle (BBC Talk 8, Mere Christianity, Bk 2, Chapter 3)

Edit: added 2nd c in condescend

I think free will exists because without it we would be robot toys of God and not living creatures that can choose to love Him back.

Real love requires free will and the risk of free will is the potential to sin. The fall of man was not inevitable but always possible.

If we lived in a multiverse with many dimensions then free will would echo across them and God would see every possible outcome but that doesn't mean He's controlling the choices even though He controls all universes and can condesend into them and effect changes. It is a boundary He has given Himself not to cross, I think.

The Shocking Alternative by C.S. Lewis Doodle (BBC Talk 8, Mere Christianity, Bk 2, Chapter 3)