Then Babs, am I right to guess that you do not believe in Divine Foreknowledge? God does not know what is going to happen?
God can look into our future but does not; he's not some fortune teller being. That would be like saying, he is going to perform a tarot reading, or read your palm, which would be engaging in mediums or alchemy. He let's it play out, and we may not be in his favor when doing bad things, but if we turn over a whole new leaf, then we would be in his favor. The Bible talks about making your mind over and stripping off the old personalities. (See Ro 12:2; Col 3:9) It also talks about when one doing bad turns back against wickedness, the previous works are not remembered. Meaning He doesn't keep score, and then hold it against you for what you did before. (Ez 3:20; 33:12; & 13 then go back to verse 11 and it will make sense.)
This is actually a good thing, because if we had pre-destined futures of just being badly molded clay and damned from the start - why try and do what is right. Yet if all are resurrected no matter what, then again why try to do what is right, for you would be a shoe-in or as they say ... in like Flynn. We all have free will, but many will pray and say, ... let your will be done, because if we pray in accordance with what he wants, we will be guided. However ultimately, in the "end", it will be God's will. (And no I don't mean the end of your one dilema.)
If God has the ability to look into the future, than the future is set. If God has the ability to look into the future and know for a fact that I am going to eat corn flakes tomorrow, then that future is set, and I do not have the ability to choose otherwise. This is true even if God chooses not to look into the future.
I answered this twice, and now you are picking it apart with minutia about the habits of your breakfast routine, and being flippant as it pertains to God. As Parisifal would say, ... irrelevant. God does not care what you eat for breakfast, as long as it is not immoral, illegal, unethical, unscriptural etc. etc. If you were to eat your corn flakes with the cut up little fingers of children you have multilated, then yes He would care about what is in your A.M. milk bowl. Otherwise he could care less, or should I say couldn't care less, and your future is not set. If you want to seek, then seek, but if you want to make a mockery out of God, then I'm not interested.
You completely ignored the point that Marcus made. You haven't answered this at all, let alone twice. This wasn't about breakfast habits, or God caring about anything. It was about free will, or the lack thereof.
Did respond to this about 4 pages back ... first addressed (in opposition) to badly molded clay presented by Canadark - my post June 13th 2:17:17 A.M. then again another response by me as it pertains to "free will" (but not without consequences) AND our lives not pre-destined, on the same day June 13th but later at 2:21:12 P.M.
I am using an example to illistrate why it is impossible for God to know the future, or have the ability to know according to you, and for human free will to exist. My example has nothing to do with whether or not God cares about my breakfast routine. You could substitute your example of finger cereal and it does not change my argument one bit.
My argument is, if God has the ability to know the future (even if he choses not too), then free will does not exist. You have indicated that both are possible, yet you have not answered how.
Since you put it this way, I will again try and answer.Even Jesus himself was a free moral agent. Just before the events took place where the crowded mob came with clubs (and He was taken by the Sanhedrin, then to Pilate, then Herod, then back to Pilate), Jesus was praying in the garden at Gethsemane, all the while Judas had been plotting and events were in motion. 3 separate times (says Gospel of John or maybe Luke) that Jesus prayed to His father, and asked - (paraphrasing) Can't you remove this cup from me, can you pass it on to someone else? (Cup is figurative.) Jesus could have run out of the Garden at Gethsemane, but He did not; He knew what He had to do - it had been written. He could still have run out, but He chose to fulfill the prophesy, and He did NOT put up a fight, or try and break away when they arrested him. When He was slapped, spit on, beaten, still He did not retaliate, NOR did he order his apostles to do so. The matter was NOT one-sided, resting solely with God, for His Son must still do his part.
In addition to cooperation on His son's part, the above is related to prophesy, and YOUR life Marcus and mine are not related to prophesy, since I don't remember reading about you or me in the bible - so no worries, you are not asked to perform some special function of saving the world. You only need to follow his commands to save yourself.
Is that clearer? I hope.