I would disagree PM. I think it's simply because you, as a Protestant, are closer to the concept of election and predestination. These are directly tied to God's omniscience and omnipotent attributes. The Orthodox abandoned election (if they ever had it) very early on. The Roman Catholics officially abandoned election during the Reformation even though as Augustine pointed out it was a major belief of the Church. Protestants are slowly losing this concept and today you'll find a lot of Protestants either agreeing with the Catholics and Orthodox or they will sit silently by. As this article points out, this was the main contention of Luther and Erasmus.
If people thought it through a bit they would come to the same conclusion Augustine came to; "There is nothing that we have that we have not been given by God."
Including the freedom to choose. I believe Blessed Augustine maitained that man was created with free will, otherwise he would have been a heretic. What he said is true because, contrary to your implication, the Orthodox anc the Catholics believe that God knows everything and all, and that He is the source and the cause of everything and all, including the free will.
Again, if everything is God's micromanagement and doing, and we have no autonomy within His creation, we are not guilty of anything. The whole concept of sin and redemption becomes meaningless.
Amen. Scripture points this out over and over.
And once that realization takes hold, life is much clearer, surer, energetic and confident. Our lives becomes solidly anchored by a confidence which Christ wants us to have because it is a confidence in Him.