Our Free Will, Not God’s Will

Today I read a post by a person basically saying why should we follow a God that only shows wrath and inflicts pain. People do not understand that God’s will is not for us to suffer, but to prosper. “Well why is there pain then?” God has never inflicted pain on us, it is our free will that causes our pain. “Why do we have a free will?” We have a freewill because God wants us to truly love him. He doesn’t want us to be programed to glorify him, but true love. “Why did he put the forbidden tree in the garden?” He did this so we could have a choice, so we could have our own will. Again, he did not force Adam and Eve to eat the fruit, but allowed them to make their own choice, just as a parent will let you make your decisions and when you make the wrong one, there is a punishment. “How can a God of love send people to hell?” How can people deny such a love as the love of God? He doesn’t send them to hell, they choose not to follow him and they choose to go to hell, he doesn’t just choose who goes to hell by random, he lets us choose if we go to hell.