@davidsheep88,
The atheist, Christopher Hitchens, probably said it best. Even a dog or a monkey can make their limbs move when they want to. That isn't free will. Just because you can walk from one side of the room to the other doesn't mean you have free will.
Free will consists of doing something toward a purpose you understand, but which is not necessarily evident to the rest of the world. In fact, when all of the evidence says that you are doing the wrong thing, you will keep on going doing what you are doing because you know by free will that you are doing the right thing.
Free will is about choice. It isn't about making the right choice. It doesn't mean that you have all of the information you need to make that choice. It says nothing about ignorance. It only says something about having choice.
The best example of free will in the bible is the idea of the importance of love. It is possible to live life and interact with other human beings purely according to sets of laws that construct those interactions.
It is possible for a person who acts that way to do everything a person who chooses love does. But the person who chooses love will do it out of the conviction of their decisions, while the other person will have to learn every last behavior.
They will never be a fully independent being. It has to do with faith. It isn't just about how good love is, but the importance of the triumph of good!
How can you make that decision, though, if you haven't heard the word? What God does is stir up in you the kernel you need to even ask the questions. God helps you be honest with yourself in this way.
Honesty with yourself is different than whether you are guaranteed all of the information. I don't think free will is about getting into a state of lying to one's self, though it can be. There is a way that the worship of things like freedom can confuse people, and prevent them from listening any more deeply than to believe simply. Free will was never meant to stay simple, though. It is beholden to concepts such as intimacy. It is beholden to love.