Imagine that you might have a dream like the one I had.
I was fast asleep. Yet, there’s a bit of awareness there, as in all sleep.
As I slept, I slowly became increasingly aware that someone — Someone! — was very patiently awaiting my full attention.
As I came around, I became aware that I was in the strange circumstances in which someone was communicating to me directly via some kine of mind transfer. I understood it to be a kind of a Q+ A session. He — it felt like a “He” — would say something…I’d not understand…I’d ask Him a question and He’d answer it.
Him: What if I were to give you the power to make something? To make something like a person?
me: Why would You do that?
Him: To let you understand.
me: Ok…what did You have in mind?
Him: I mean to give you the power to create a creature and to give it life and to define the parameters and dimensions of its/his/her life.
me: Ummmm…ok. Cool!
Him: Okay, now what will you make and how will you make it?
I thought and thought and thought and thought and thought and I realized: I’d make a human, and I’d make that human exactly as He had made them. No difference whatsoever? Nope. No difference whatsoever. Why? Simple: because I’d want to be loved by my “creation” unreservedly and sincerely. Without free will, my “creation’s” love for me wouldn’t be real, it would be coerced. But, if I were to give my “creation” free will, then I make it so that he just might not act as I want him to all the time. And he just might muck things up from time to time.
Hmmmmmm… sound familiar?
— xPraetorius
The Praetorian Writers' Group 