Can prayer change God's perfect plan?

[Harry Nevis]

You can't say that we have free will if we "can't help" but act according to his design.  That's what a puppet does.

I agree with this. And for the record, I don't see it in the way that other poster does.

As I explained, God knows what we will choose in the future specifically because He is not bound by past, present, and future. He can see everything happening all at once, like looking at a timeline of the beginning of time all the way until the end of it. This does not mean He controls what we choose, it just means He is already seeing what we will choose because He is looking at all of time from the outside of it.

Which is really no explanation at all, just rationalization.  What exactly is "outside time"? Nothing that we can experience, or even begin to understand, but it makes your beliefs internally consistent in your mind.