God Can't be All Powerful, Knowing, and Good V. 2

"My opponent says that free will seperates humanity from animals because we are able to tell right from wrong, thus giving our actions more meaning. But this does got give us a better life." My point is that free will gives life meaning, i.e. there would be no point in living without free will. There is no way to evaluate a life as 'better' or 'worse' without the concept of free will. Would you look at a robot and say 'Wow that robot has a good life. Never has to worry about anyone hurting it, just sits in the corner all day until that computer guy tells it what to do'? Human life would be worthless without free will, without the ability to govern our own lives by our own choices, there wouldn't be any point in humanity. Next you bring up the example of Adam and Eve. First, I'm not actually referring any religious classifications of God, I'm simply referring to a being with the qualities of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence. But anyway since you brought it up: Eve and Adam certainly knew what evil was, God defined it for them. To be evil was to disobey God and eat from the tree, to be good was to avoid that tree. According to Christianity we were imbued with free will from the first, God never intended us to be robots. All of this is answered when I say that in order to understand good, you must also have evil. There is no way to comprehend that life is 'good' unless you can compare it to its opposite. If life truly was without evil, then it would just be. We wouldn't know that it was good that there were no murders because we would never know what murder was in the first place, and we wouldn't know that it was evil. In the same vein, we wouldn't value all the good acts which occur on a daily basis. The mother who comforts her child who fell off their bike. The woman running a soup kitchen to feed the homeless. The friendships formed between a lonely kid at high school and someone who reaches out to them. The outpouring of human kindness which occurs after a tornado strikes. The average person going out of their way to stop a fight on the street that could have ended up with someone being hurt. All of these things (and countless more examples) are functions of evil. Without evil, we would not have 'good' to begin with. All of your arguments about paradise being better than evil aren't true-if there were no evil, we'd have no comprehension of what 'paradise' is. Paradise is a place of perfect joy, devoid of evil-but it requires evil to exist to understand the concept. All of these things are also definitions of what it means to be human. All of the positive qualities of humanity are defined by what they are not-to be kind means to not be cruel, to be helpful means to not be apathetic, to be courageous means to not be cowardly. All of the positive attributes we associate with humanity would be gone without evil, humans would be empty shells following a scripted life, actions would be meaningless. Is that what you would call paradise? A person helping another person, not by their own personal choice and desire to good, but by rote. How can there be any value to human life if we have no part in the decision-making process? In this world, your choices matter. They give you responsibility, they give your actions value. When you make a good decision, you can be praised for it, and can be deemed to be a morally good action. If you didn't have free will, A. We wouldn't know what a good action was and B. You couldn't be valued for it. You haven't established any other standard by which we can evaluate the inherent value of human life. I argue that life is given value by our ability to make free decisions, good or evil. We define ourselves through the actions we take and the choices we make. If we lived in a world where our actions were controlled by God, what meaning would life have? It would be as if we were a world of robots, and life truly would have no meaning. Therefore, God allows free will because it gives meaning to human life. "It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you." But what you do only has value if you freely choose to do it. Thanks for the debate :)