People say that if God caused us to obey Him, that would violate our free wills and make us robots.
This is not true.
Even us people can cause others to do things without violating their free wills. For example, when I ask someone what time it is, they usually tell me what time it is. I cause them to tell me the time, and I do not violate their free will. Did I transform them into a robot? Of course not! Yet they would not have told me the time, had I not asked. I caused them to tell me the time.
Apparently, there will be no sin in heaven. Does that mean people will be robots in heaven? God can reveal how truly repulsive and disgusting sin is, and that would cause people to choose not to sin. To illustrate, people have the free will to eat dead, rotten rats from the garbage can. But they will never choose to do so whenever they have the option to eat steak instead.
Notice how God works to cause people to do His will.
Ezra 1:1-2 NIV
[1] In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
[2] “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ 'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
Philippians 2:13 KJV
[13] For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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