christian looking to understand athiests

[Mister Agenda]

What is free will?

its when you decide everything you want to do and make decisions in your life.  God cant force you to do anything because you have free will.  Eve had free will in the garden of eden and she could either eat or not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  with her free will she decided to eat the fruit

It wasn't a very informed free will, since she didn't know good from evil until after she ate the fruit. More like a toddler's free will to put anything it can reach into its mouth.

That whole story is a lot better as a metaphor for our tendency to do wrong even though we want to do right than taken literally. Literally, it's like someone knowingly leaving their two three-year-old twins in a room with their worst enemy and a loaded shotgun that you've told them to leave alone, then punishing the kids and all of their descendants because the shotgun went off. You don't have to be omniscient to know that the person most repsonsible for that outcome is the parent.