@Rudometkin
...ok, maybe I'm beginning to appreciate your position after a bit more thought.
If God created everything in the entire universe, from the grandiose, to the infinitesimal, then of course that includes all personalities, emotions and characters. That is, if He is the almighty Creator, then there is absolutely nothing that is outside of His control in any manner whatsoever, including man's inclinations, desires and enticements.
Therefore, invariably, God knows exactly what will occur in His universe at any given moment in time, from anywhere on any planet or galaxy, from every thought that passes through man's mind. He knows this not only by omniscience, anticipation or wisdom, but more so, because He laid the blueprint, and that there was not an iota of anything that was made without precise
deliberation. Everything has a purpose, nothing is frivolous. Again, He did not create to a point that some things were left to chance, that some things were outside of His control and had a trajectory of their own - impossible.
But, because I do recognize a paradox in both God's sovereignty, and His over-arching decrees for man to be obedient and righteous, I must conclude that there is a free-will innate in man - but this is from man's perspective. As far as man's heart, maturity and wisdom are concerned, he grows, develops and makes countless decisions every day, and can conclude that effort causes change, and being sedentary causes stagnation. God created the environment that is conducive to each individuals character, to act as God pre-planned. Man does not feel possessed by some inexplicable force acting upon him, making himself do something that never entered his mind. Thus, man does have free will, within the confines that God gave him. Not an oxymoron. Again, man knows himself, his strings are not being pulled by some extraneous source. God defined the limits, but man has complete free-will within the capacity that God gave him. Thus, he is still held accountable.
