That first paragraph you quoted from post #309 and responded to is actually a viewpoint I don't have, and think is likely to be incorrect, and present first in order to bring out it's assumptions to examine.
Another assumption I don't have is naturalism -- the idea/view that all God's actions are inside nature (even levels of nature we don't yet know of, etc.). See, I don't assume naturalism, therefore I would not myself tend to be thinking of any possibilities about how God could travel through time or space, like wormholes, etc. I don't think time, space, energy, and such apply even partly on His actions. I don't guess that God is even simply on some other level of nature (other dimensions, other Universe, etc.), but instead to be truly and fully transcendent -- not merely on another level, but transcendent of any other systems of natural constraints also.
But if you read further through post #309, you'll see better how I'm trying to question some assumptions many people are making.
I realize you believe in free will and I did read 309, but you like most who belief in free will, cannot give any possible way for God to know the “future” perfectly and man to be able to choose otherwise. It is all left to some “mysterious way” only God could figure out. That is not a strong answer for those who can logically show how it would be impossible for the future to be set in stone and man to have free will (I get into discussions with Open View believers about this same thing.
You do state some good ideas like:
“He did not want robots…”
“partial determinism”
“God will accomplish what He plans…”
“we have an actual free will that is not nominal”
“…outside-of-physics spirit in us that can be either totally predictable or truly unpredictable, separate from the totality of nature”
You say: “I don't assume naturalism, therefore I would not myself tend to be thinking of any possibilities about how God could travel through time or space, like wormholes, etc. I don't think time, space, energy, and such apply even partly on His actions. I don't guess that God is even simply on some other level of nature (other dimensions, other Universe, etc.), but instead to be truly and fully transcendent -- not merely on another level, but transcendent of any other systems of natural constraints also.”
Yet, you turn around and put God in our time frame, suggesting our future is also future for God.
What I showed is even man’s science in our physical universe has shown for the last 100 years that time is relative. This would support the idea that time is totally relative for God, who is not limited to nature.
Man’s science has shown “nature” (plants, animals, matter, space, time and energy) is very predictable and if enough was known about the environment and “genes” actions could be predetermined like which direction the butterfly will fly, so from just a scientific perspective: it might be assumed man does not truly have free will (we can determine the ice-cream he will choose tomorrow at noon), especially if man is no different than other animals with the exception of being more complex.
It is only when we interject the “God factor” that there could be some truly autonomous free will choices made by humans, if God provided a limited amount of autonomy in at least mature adult humans (making them in the image of God). So what is the need for humans to have limited free will?
The question then comes up: How could God know man’s future perfectly (making it set in stone) and man to be able to make truly autonomous free will choices?
Jesus knew for certain (without any other possibility) that Peter would betray Him three time that night (not more than once and not in the next few days) and Christ told Peter he would. If Christ did not know for certain than to keep from being misleading Christ should have said “you might or could” leaving it contingent and making Christ’s statement a “warning”. This is not the actions of Deity which can be stated and changed (Jeremiah 18), but actions Peter would be taking.
How would you define God being: “Outside of time’s limitations”?
If something has happened and thus became part of history, could that history be changed by even God? This is not saying: God could not create a second Adam and Eve, but God could not eliminate the fact there was a previous Adam and Eve.
Could “and even would” God at the end of time know historically all what happened throughout man’s history from the beginning of time?
If God is outside of time, what would keep God from knowing simultaneously,
what was going on at the end of time and the beginning of time?
God in His communication with man sometimes speak on man’s level and understanding, like talking about the sun setting or the four corners of earth, would also suggest God being throughout time simultaneously would not have to be presented in God’s conversation with man, like the rotation of a round earth would not need to be in the conversation with man?
If God is outside of time, what would keep God’s presence at the end of time from communicating back to Himself at the beginning of time all the history of all humans?
If God is outside of time, would He know from the beginning of time all the history of every human who will ever live?
Does just knowing the history of a person’s actions, mean that those actions cannot be autonomous free will actions? (Please provide any science or logic showing they could not be free will actions, since the secular world would say they could be and do not use that as a “proof” against free will.)
In the “Space Time Continuum” would God be able to simultaneously know what is happening in our world and in a Galaxy a billion light years away?
So, I might repeat some things in a different wording to help make it more likely my intended sense of meaning is clear enough. You are using the phrase 'free will' differently than I ever have, and that's the most challenging part for me to get accurately, so I'm using a lot of wording to try to say what I think you mean. Altogether, it's a translation work. So, please bear with me.
