When God said no to Adam - 'don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil' - it aroused in the mind of Adam that he could choose to do so if he wished. Along with that choice came a responsibility for the consequence of his choice - life or death. God did not create an automaton; he created a spiritual being who would relate to God by his own free, loving choice.
This is the only way God creates spirit beings, because God is a covenant; he is the God of relationship. He created the angelic beings this way too, for they also are spirit beings. The power of choice - whether to serve and love the Creator or take one's fate upon oneself - is the responsibility, and we also need to say, the privilege of every created being, human and angelic. We live with the consequence of that choice. Such a choice given to us does not put us in the place of God; rather it confirms and affirms the nature of the Creator as the God of relationship. He desires that his created beings, who have been designed specifically and uniquely to relate to him, do so freely. Our freedom to say no to God determines the outcome of that free choice - ultimately we send ourselves to hell. Never blame God for hell; it was not designed for us but for the devil.
Our freedom to say yes to God brings us into the freedom or liberty of the sons of God, expressed in our being owned and controlled by our Heavenly Father. Thus the really free person is the slave son of God; only such a person is truly free. He or she gladly surrenders their sinful independence and thus becomes the true free son of the Father. That is why Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane - 'not my will but yours' - is the perfect example of the free surrendered self to the Father.
