Bruv I agree with everything you wrote in your last post on free will.Questions such as "where did God come from" aren't valid as it implies God is restricted by time.The Bible is silent on this, except to say God existed forever.So what we experience as time, i.e. the comparison of one state of light and matter to another, the past, the present and the future.. to God is not even a moment.A thousand years is with God as a day (2 Pet 3:8). But this does not say that time does not exist for God - a thousand years is still like a day to Him. Just because time as we know it came into existence when the universe came into being, does not mean we can say time of some sort did not exist before the Big Bang/Creation. Nobody who believes in predestination has ever been able to prove (to my satisfaction) that God is somehow "outside of time" - because there is nothing in our universe outside of time - and what is outside our universe is unknown. Even God does not claim to be outside of time.Does God know the future?Can God see the future, live in the future like we live in the present. No!!!!!God can see the future, just like a builder can look on a plot of land and "see" a house standing there, because he owns the land, has permission and power to do anything he likes to the land. As to the tiny details like which brick will go where, the builder does not have a clue - neither does God as to the small details. He sorts them out as he goes along, as long as all goes along according to His overall will.If He does, to what level of detail does He know about the future?God knows that he has an overall plan, which needs x number of saints. So He calls x++. Some respond, some don't. Thus God will fill the "wedding feast" even if those originally invited reject his invitation. The details, God sorts out in real time - the time we live in.Does He know who's going to heaven and who's going to hell?Hell no!!! God would have all to be saved (i.e. that is His stated will). Every newborn baby has a chance to be saved. Some folks just don't want to be saved. Thus they enjoy this life - and God is not obliged to give them more.Did He plan our futures or does he have some influence on it?Only Jeremiah, Paul, John the Baptist and one or two others were foreknown in the womb, and empowered with Holy Spirit. They had crucial roles to play in God's plan. The rest of us do not have our futures planned by God. He does not have one "will" for our lives. He works with us as we live, as we respond to Him or not.If He doesn't know our futures, does that not contradict that he is all knowing and limit God in his abilities?Here we come to another big unproven assumption - that God's all knowing-ness extends into the future. Frankly, I cannot say strongly enough - that is BULL!! God knows all that can be known at present - and nobody can prove God knows how many hairs you will have on your head in 20 years time. If God wants you to have a certain number of hairs, to fulfill His purpose, He has the power to bring it to pass. But if its not part of His plan, your hairline will do its own thing - and some will no doubt fall out due to stress.The moment one ASSUMES that God knows the future - you are on the slippery slide to saying that God knows that some innocent newborn baby is already a coal in hell. Which is such an insult to the good and kind God who would have all to be saved.