Thanks for the detailed response, and I'd like to elaborate on your river example:

While God never actually did anything to affect this boat driver's decision, surely, as an almighty deity, he should have known what direction the driver would choose even before it made the decision?

Even if his will is free, God is still able to look one/infinite steps ahead. God knows why this person chose the specific direction that it chose.

The same thing can be said about any person and/or criminal: God can fully understand the reasoning from their perspective, and sympathize with their decisions, no matter how horrible or evil it may look from a non-omnipotent point of view, There is always a reason to why people choose to make decisions that are looked upon as evil actions, and God is aware of every possible reason there may be.

God is almighty, and He has every single ability that one may think of. This obviously includes the ablity to see the future, to flawlessly predict everything that will happen in this universe. God is aware of everything.

This makes you wonder though: If God really is almighty, then doesn't He already know who will end up in heaven and who will end up in hell? Would He not be able to predict every single good deed and sin that you will commit throughout your life, even before you were born? I mean, how could He not know?

As I see it, God is currently watching us go through happiness and misery just for the hell of it. He knows exactly how evil will affect all humans involved and He has the ability to stop it. He already knows how every single human will use their free (yet, by God, predictable) will, so it's not up to us to do anything about our situation.

Our fate is in God's hands. Period.

This is actually one of the theories I was refrencing to earlier. Also, I agree with someone else earlier in the thread that said I think your idea of all mighty is off.

Also, are you ready for a mind fuck? Maybe since he IS almighty that he intentionally limits himself and doesn't allow himself to know what choices you make until you make them even though he has the power to do so.

Also to elaborate the analogy earlier. Imagine a globe. The equator the time line. God is at the north pole. The lines of longitude is his vision. Basically he can see the past present and future all at the same time. but since god is a timeless being they would all be happening simultaneously.

This is actually a minority viewpoint of western religions. In particular, Calvinism - a modern brand of Christianity which emerged in the 16th century.

Why???

If God wanted to He could easily kill the Devil.

Becaue if the Devil dies so will all those people who has not accepted and committed to Jesus Christ

Bolded: You are right; We are chained to the flow of time. But shouldn't it be possibe for an almighy outsider to analyze the future through the cause-effect model? Present is shaped by the past and the future is shaped by the present. God must have full control/understanding of time, and must be able to see the future in order to actually be almighty.

That is where the rest of the free will argument fall as well. If everything isn't linear, then God can't possibly see the future and is, de facto: Flawed.

As for the last paragraph, or more specifically: The underlined: That dilemma is just like the old fashioned "Can God create a rock that is so heavy that he cannot lift it?"-dilemma. It is a paradox without a (logical) answer.

Bolded: How? An almighty deity has no limitations and is not bound by the laws of physics. It also has a complete knowledge with no flaws or whatsoever.

Italics: Sounds to me like he intentionally put people through suffering then. That doesn't sound like a very merciful god, compared to the Bible's implications.

Underlined: Good. Then he is fully aware of everything that happens and that will happen. It still doesn't change the fact that he lets it happen though.

You are making an assumption here. In a universe of free will, the ability to accurately predict everything for all time would be logically absurd for obvious reasons. I don't think the lack of the ability to perform the logically absurd can really be called a flaw.