“But if God created us, knowing what our choices are going to be, and cannot be wrong...doesn’t that mean we must do what He knows we are going to do? Where is the freewill part? How can we really choose, if the outcome is already known? Doesn’t that mean He created us, without the ability to do anything other than what He designed us to do? Wouldn’t this idea of freewill, just be an illusion?”
Great philosophical thought my friend. The more I came to know God/Christ direct, the more simple it became and I realized organized religion is sometimes more hinderence then help in interpretation of scripture or God’s personality for that matter.
Here is what I know - God claims in the bible He knows you before you were born. I agree, our DNA code carries half of how we will behave 100% of how we will be physically formed at the moment of conception. The second part is variables and prediction. Think of predicting the weather. With 500 variables you can predict the weather about 85% accuracy. If you had let’s say a Quantum computer (now proven theoretically possible to build) you could feed 500,000 variables and predict the weather 50 years out with 99% accuracy. Who and what is God? The greatest mathmetician and coder to ever exist and who will ever exist. So indeed, we all have free will, but the variables (prophecy) at God’s disposal about our earth, people etc. is probably in the septillions.
The numbers sound great, but they really can’t prove we have freewill...it’s still just a mater of belief.