*** If we are free to sin, then we are free to sin. I think that you’re mixing up sin in general with specific actions upon an individual.
Wow, so if God had a specific plan for my neighbor to do a great thing tomorrow, then I would be perfectly free to thwart that plan by killing him today. Amazing. I didn’t realize that your side thought of man’s autonomy as being absolute. ***
Now, now. There is a big difference between sin - the commission or omission of something that is against God, and God’s intervention. If God absolutely has determined something to occur, then yes, it occurs. But I don’t think that God is the puppet master that the Reformed think He is. God is secure in His Creation and doesn’t need to micromanage it. I don’t see Christ as a neurotic.
This is new. :) Do I understand correctly that you believe that God actually does have a "plan", which He takes infallible steps to implement, that cannot be thwarted by man's free will? From your statement it sounds like you do think He has a plan, but it is just on a much smaller scale than we think God's plan is. But, I don't want to put words into your mouth so I would just ask if you would care to elaborate a little bit.