Everything God had created to this point helped prepare for His grand finale—the creation of the couple who would begin the human race. They were to be creatures endowed with a will that could turn against their Creator. He could make these creatures robot-like, preprogrammed to do nothing but obey God. And how convenient that would have been, for God could then have made His way the broad way, populating heaven with as many as He wanted, sending few or none on the narrow way to hell. Why did God