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Does free will exist in heaven?
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Yes.
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If free will does exist in heaven, then that proves that there are ways that God could prevent suffering without infringing upon free will. Why then does he not use these tactics on earth.
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Free will exists in Heaven, and the blessed
choose, even in Heaven, to do and be good. It goes back to what I wrote earlier in this thread: getting to the point where what you need and what you want dovetail.
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Any imperfection in humanity is ultimately the intentional result of God's actions. Yes, the serpent made eve eat from the tree of knowledge, but God is omnipotent, so he could have totally prevented that. Therefore, by virtue of his omnipotence, evil is still the intentional, fully consenting fault of God.
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The Serpent didn't make Eve eat the fruit. Eve
chose to do so. God is not responsible for us choosing to do evil. Just because He could stop us doesn't mean He is responsible. He respects us enough as free moral agents to not take away our free will.
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Why didn't God just stop the gas from flowing into the chambers? Why didn't he make it so that there was a miscount in the votes, so that Hitler wasn't ever elected? For that matter, why didn't he kill Hitler outright?
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Read
Job.
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Not all suffering is the direct result of human free will. Why does God allow natural disasters to happen?
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The Fall of Man affected not only us but all creation. Hence, "all creation groans". You know, you could Google these questions and find immediate answers. There are plenty of apologetics that have dealt with these quite elementary questions.
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