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I do claim a painful separation.

I do not claim that they are preordained merely likely to be preknown. It could very well be that you get to make your choice regardless of the fact that God may know it. There is an old argument that if God were both all knowing and all powerful that there would be no free will. But I do not claim that God is all knowing or all powerful.

God exist outside of time. If I flip a coin, video it, and then watch the video I will know the outcome. But the outcome was still random.

What I claim is that a very knowing God and a very powerful God lets you make choices. I claim that the only way we could have been made different is to not have free choice and that would be worse than having choice and making the wrong one. In fact, we were made the best way we could have been made. We have the choice, we choose wrong, and then at least (perhaps all) many of us choose to go back to God. That is good.