and as far as your question to me, ama...
it's hard to explain. but...i just think back to Adam and Eve in the Bible. God didn't make them robots. He gave them their own minds. But he DID give them instructions to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge. they were swayed away from this by Satan. Not controlled, but swayed. Persuaded, if you will. However...in the end, God still knew Man was going to fall. Things could have gone differently...but God knew what choices they were going to make, and what end that would take them to.

see, that probably doesn't answer your question...and i totally understand that. a lot of Biblical concepts are just difficult like that. this especially seems inherently contradictory, doesn't it...?

with that being said...maybe i should have said, "i don't know" and left it at that....
idk.