I know there is great debate about free will and choice verses a predetermined reality. However, I believe these two concepts could coexist.
When we make a choice, the other outcome that was not selected still had the same potential to exist as the one I selected instead. Up until that moment in time, both realities had equal existence in the future.
But what we now know about space and time, and how the fabric between the two is codependent (change one and you change the other), it can be reduced to our limits of sensory input. If we’re not there, we can’t experience it. Plain and simple.
A party could take place that you were invited to, but you “chose” not to go. Then you heard about an event that took place through a story of one of your friends who was there. All your reality knows is a 2nd hand account of what went on at the party. But if you had chosen to go, the story your friend told you would never have taken place. You may have influenced the event so it never happened, or you could have enhanced it in some way. Either way, your friend would not need to relay the story since you were already there. Two sepearate realities.
You would have created a completely different timeline, where all subsequent actions and decisions would split off their own never-ending branch of exponential potentialities.
These infinite and ever-branching outcomes of everyone’s entire life throughout history would have equal existence until they actually happened. So where and when do they exist?
That we don’t currently have the ability to know (and barely grasp), but maybe a new evolution in the human consciousness can reveal to us how parallel dimensions, via string theory, could exist all around us as potential energy, and we select how we interact with our own specific path. I can’t help but believe in a Creator when I try to grasp how completely complex and ever-reaching it must be to know everything that ever was and ever will be.
But the only way I can even begin to understand an entity to have that ability, is if the fabric of all possible realities already exists in every state, through parallel dimensions.
So you can still choose through free will, but that doesn’t mean that God doesn’t already know every possible outcome before it will happen.