Is he Christ, and/or is he (also maybe) (or not), is he YHWH...?
If he's not as Jesus or as a man, then, why is that...?
And then, if he is YHWH, then why does it not seem like it in the OT...?
Then, also...?
How do you say God knows "absolutely everything", and I mean "everything", and yet we still have free will...?
How does that work...?
God Bless!
You seem a bit obsessed with this question, my friend. I guess I've been there. It's a common enough question, usually stated as "How can God be completely sovereign and man still make real choices?" or something like that.
The answer we usually get is just to embrace the mystery. That's basically where my pastor at that time went with it.
But my mind doesn't work that way, so I started studying the various theories. From the Reforms determinism to the Open Theist. And really, there is no mystery in the reformed view when you really hold it up to the light. It's just fate with God thrown in. Kind of like the song lyric "nothing really matters, anyone can see, nothing really matters to me." That's where you end up with determinism. Not good for one's motivation.
Open theism I found, had some Biblical issues, but my main issue with it was actually that dratted Einstein. Time is relative. Well, that won't work. Next!
Molinism holds up pretty well. This is the best of all possible worlds, free will is real, although, yes, God chose this world, the possibilities exist for us as real possibilities, it's just that we don't activate them.
But, basically, I ended up back with John Wesley and other arminians, because there is no reason to think God's sovereignty means he HAS to cause everything.
I haven't found anyone who said it better than A. W. Tozer:
“Here is my view: God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his choice between good and evil. When he chooses to do evil, he does not thereby countervail the sovereign will [p.145] of God but fulfills it, inasmuch as the eternal decree decided not which choice the man should make but that he should be free to make it. If in His absolute freedom God has willed to give man limited freedom, who is there to stay His hand or say, ‘What doest thou?’ Man’s will is free because God is sovereign. A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.”