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True.

The frame of reference I was thinking about was whether or not the universe is deterministic. If it is, then we know there’s no free will, since God would have known everything that will ever happen before it happened.

If the universe is not deterministic, it leaves some wiggle room in my mind. Although I haven’t really thought that one through.

And again none of this matters because functionally if I hit myself in the head right now, I decided to do that, and my life plays out the exact same afterwards, whether I had free will or not.

To me the term free will ceases to make sense when you look at it from the infinite universe’s POV instead of the individual, rendering the argument pointless. Do I have free will to make decisions? Yes. Could God have predicted all those decisions ahead of time? Maybe.