>>18230089>completely dodges the argumentYour question was why it's necessary, not "why does God do anything if you pretend we dont have free will. "You are moving the goalpost. If we have free will, I gave you the answer to the original question. You screeched and are trying to pilpul around the answer. Typical.
>That doesn't work with an all-powerful God who designed this specific universe with every conceivable outcome already laid out>does not understand cause and effectIt does work with an all-powerful God who designed this specific universe with every conceivable outcome already laid out because amongst the conceivable outcomes the path is determined by our free will, not God. Pic related. The path is our choice, God set out many conceivable paths for us.
>God knew Adam and Eve would eat the apple before he even made them.Doesn't mean anything. They had free will.
God knew they would choose what they did. Keyword CHOOSE
His knowlege, that has existed for all past eternity, was dependent on the choice they made, not the other way around. You pretend the paths were closed off, but that is nonsense. It amounts to saying "we can't choose the path we don't choose therefore we can't choose at all". It's wildly illogical.
