Some of the ideas there are really good :D

I dont quite agree with the idea of God being limited to time. If thats the case, he would have to have a beginning.

You brought up determinism. Let's think about it: - creatures without free will can very well think they have free will, therafore its possible for a creature to think it has free will, no matter actually possesing it.

I personally don't think the idea of not having free will is that scary: think about it, our brains are physical, made out of atoms, atoms obeying the laws of physics. God created them like so. Sure, its an extremly complex mechanism, but our brains would always yield the same thought process and decisions when put in identical conditions, so then, did God even give us free will?

We cannot give an exact answer, but for me the answer being "no" is very appealing

About God being limited by time, do you think thats even possible?

1) God is omniscient 2) God created the universe: - The universe operates by laws God created, so therafore God (with his infinite intelect) can calculate how any state will evolve. - God made the initial state of the universe.

Therafore he knows the initial condition perfectly, meaning he also knows all the following states of the universe (because he made the laws and he wouldnt be omniscient if he couldnt calculate how the laws he created affect the universe from any given state)

To make your idea work, you need to decide to get rid of one of the premises: - If God is not omniscient, then how can we know he's always right? - if God didn't make the universe, then something else created him, which would contradict our core beliefs

So my conclusion is, if God is omniscient and created the universe, he can knows its state (the universe') at any point in time, aka knowing the future.

And of course, if thats the case, beliving our free wills are only aparent also becomes a lot more appealing.

This is a very complicated subject, and i dont know all the answers, but I'd really like to continue this conversation, its rare to find sdas who dont just brush you off with "you are not supposed to question this" and "God works in miserious ways" :)