See, but this would require God to not know everything. If you believe that, great, but every Christian sect that I know of at least believes that He does indeed know everything. Just knowing each possible future isn't enough: He has to know which one will be the true one else He doesn't know everything.
He DOSE he knows which one you pick cause he can see the future, but he did not "make you" you picked it, thats one way of looking at it
another is he knows us so well
Just like I can forsee what my kid will decide to do, it dont me I picked it for them and while my actions may influnce it, in the end THEY picked it
We can predict what a friend is going to do, what would a being that is so many more times smarter then us do?
Know the horse is going to win?
Even if he DOSE know what we will pick, we SILL picked t, he did not force us to pick it
It follows from the idea that everything is a consequence of its history. If everything happens for a reason, which I think most people agree on, then that means that the future is set. Every event that happens right now causes the events that happen in the next instant, continuing on into infinity.
but lets assumed that while yes time can be moved around in its "stuck for us"
Yes the future is set in the fact that if you go there you see our actions
but WE PICKED those actions, its not like God made the future and then said "Wolfy is going to tap dance"
I picked to
If that's true, and God is the one who initiated it all, and God knows everything, then that means He knew how history would play out when He initiated it. And apparently He was satisfied with it, or else He'd have done it differently. Thus he set it up.
Wrong, giving us free will he allows us to change our futures, your assuming
A. time cant be changed. what proof do you have that we cant just
B. God is not capable of "knowing everything there is to know" (the true meaning of optimenit, and means knows "all" there is to know) but no where dose it say what that "All is" maybe he dont know which choices we make unless he looks to the future
Maybe some things cant be known by anyone
Your assuming also that God can even
your assuming if God initiated it a diffident way, him doing that is what ends up picking what we do, I believe he mad the unverse, and WE get to pick
He may of made 50 worlds
and each one is a blank slate, nothing about picking world one form him means that it will happen
your also assuming God controls the future
Can he do these things? could he mess with it? YES, but the idea is he has giving us free will and so dose not do these things
A. "set up" the future in a diffident away, if we do have free will and he dont get in our way of it then how CAN he set it up? he lets us pick
He is all powerful and all knowing, but that means knowin all that CAN be known, and doing all that CAN be done.
Never says what CAN be known and done and not.