I'm going to call foul here, purely on your logic.
One can foreknow results according to a devised plan to accomplish the end results without controlling each and every in-between variation. Even humans do this all the time.
I'm going to call foul here, purely on your logic. One can foreknow results according to a devised plan to accomplish the end results without controlling each and every in-between variation. Even humans do this all the time.
But one cannot foreknow with Godly precision if one's devised plan includes random elements. That happens with humans all the time. I plan to go to a movie tonight. But, a few hours later, my wife doesn't feel well, so we postpone until later. I had a perfectly good devised plan that was altered by uncontrollable or random circumstances. I don't think it's possible for God's plan to be like that (Heaven help us! :), so if it WAS true then God would not REALLY have a plan "in any real sense", as I said. If the millions of random free will acts of EACH of the billions of humans who have lived were a part of God's plan, then the whole thing is just a crapshoot. For God, that is no real plan, that is sitting back on the couch and simply recording all of these random events as He foresees them. He tallies the scores, and then announces "That's my plan". It's the inmates running the asylum. :)