God lays out the importance of choice—of proper exercise of free will—in Deuteronomy: See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord, your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws. . . . Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.25 Because we choose, we are God’s partners in creation.
