Oh no not another free will thread.

[Mystic]

Right, so what I've been saying is to try to imagine an all powerful eternal being, creator of the universe and creator of time itself. It would seem such a being wouldnt be bound by time and therefore wouldnt be stuck in the present like we are, but rather, would transcend time. It's impossible to truly wrap your head around it because we exist within time and can't even imagine anything different. But that's where this is coming from. I think there's a lot of inability here to think outside the box, or think about hypotheticals and so this conversation will go nowhere.

God responds to prayers and decides in real time.  Ahlulbayt (as) in traditions said there is no belief about God better than that he innovates. That is he is can write and erase, decide in the present, and is not set in stone in his knowledge... he brings about things he didn't know because it was impossible to know before hand.

This is known as "Bida" and something Sunnis attacked Shiites hadiths for, and Shiites became to embarrassed to defend, so brought the creed to something else and then there is hadiths that explain in the meaningless way...

But I found this is a game changer. When not even God knows my destiny, when I pray to him, it's him deciding at that moment, not predestined from before. It does a huge difference.