[Marie]

“Of the many called, why are so few chosen? ... Because God honors our free will, and so few will let Him do ‘it’ (save them from their inherited self).”

I believe that G-d does know everything. It’s His Divine Plan, after all.

My personal struggles with faith are not for His edification. They’re for MINE. He knows that my soul needed to go through the ups and downs to ‘get it.’

When my son was a baby, I knew that eventually he’d learn how to read. My knowledge that he’d learn this didn’t remove his free will. It just meant that I saw it coming.

I knew what he was capable of. I knew how to teach. I knew what materials to expose him to in order to set him up for success. I knew his psyche well enough to understand the best way to challenge him.

But, in the end, he still had the free will to refuse to learn the skill.

Hashem is our divine parent. He knew us before we were born. He knows how to guide us to get the result that He wants. And He is all-knowing enough to foresee all outcomes for all of time.

[MHGinTN]

Thanks for the clear analogy. It is a common error to equate knowing with causing. This ploy is used by the evil one to infer that God is responsible for not stopping us from being what we inherited from Adam, therefore God is responsible for our damnation. God didn't prevent satan from rebelling, so satan wants to drag as many away from God's Grace as that evil one can before he is permanently squelched out of God's Universe prepared for us as God's children.

I find it interesting that the Copenhagen gaggle discovered that the observation of a wave/particle duality causes the collapse of the wave function, yet scientists who believe that do not comprehend how one choses to believe or not believe and thereby 'collapse' their destiny as one or another fate.