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Discussion of free will necessarily presumes the existence of divinity, and a divinity that cannot be disproved. If we are to take the existence of divinity as a given, the establishment of free will is likewise impossible, since it is a system derived from an entity whose properties are strictly unknown, yet custom-extrapolated to the shared schema of a given religious sect.
In other words, god is a supposition, and you can't extract a determination from a supposition. It's the other way around. You're supposed to base speculation on tangible data, not on the original speculation. That way lies madness. And, not coincidentally, thousands of years of wide-scale bloodshed.
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"The idea that money doesn't buy you happiness is a lie put about by the rich, to stop the poor from killing them." -- Michael Caine
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