Does Supralapsarianism Hinder Free Will?

I don’t die on the free will hill but I still acknowledge how much our choices matter. I’m sure some will appreciate this.

Supralapsarianism, the argument I’m working on from a previous post claims that this world we live in now is the best of all the possible worlds there could be. I say this because in this world not only God exists but he has come to us and died for us in person of Jesus Christ. In order to do that he had to allow us to sin. If we sinned, there would be suffering. So did God force us to sin?

If God had already made us knowing we would sin, does that mean he is to blame for our sin. Another level you can ask, does Supralapsarianism hinder humanity’s free will?

Some call God’s goodness into question by suggesting that humanity was forced into sinning in order for God to carry out his rescue plan of atonement.  

In God, Freedom, and Evil, Alvin Plantinga illustrates that in the best-of-all-possible-worlds that God could make, humans have free will to choose what is morally good. For morality to exist, the possibility of evil must exist and given x amount of worlds available, based on what Plantinga calls, transworld depravity, people will make poor choices.  He explains,

But if every person ‘suffers from transworld depravity, then no matter which person God instantiates, the resulting persons, is free with respect to morally significant actions, would always perform at least some wrong actions.

Plantinga argues that it is illogical for God to create a world where no free creature never sins. The key word is illogical. It cannot happen that free people would never choose to rebel at some point, some time. We are all great case studies for this.

Here’s the most important point: In these potential worlds that contains free creatures who sometimes sin, the best possible word is the one that God provides atonement for them.

That’s why God is great in that he makes us free, knows everything that we will do and still saves our butts so we could be with him. 

“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are” (1 John 3:1).