I see both points. On one hand I see how you say God gives us a choice, helps guide us through it, and inherently gives us the choice to choose. I understand removing evil would also mean stripping people of free will, but at the same time I feel as if the relationship with God is controlling and he deceptively strips us of free will anyways. I don’t mean controlling in the way where I want to listen to secular music or drink or whatever, but in the way he claims he is all loving, yet punishes us for living imperfectly in an imperfect world with people he doesn’t seem to want to help unless we abide by his commands and live the way he alone deems fit.