Free Will & God knowing the future...?

Precisely. Why do people pray? Can god change his mind?

You still have free will. God knows that you will approach a dog with your car next Tuesday, but He also knows that you will choose to swerve and miss the dog (or try to anyhow), or maybe He knows that you will approach the dog and NOT swerve or miss it, which ever happens. God doesn't often step in and change things against free will. God bless.

How you & I see or understand God's all knowingness is NOT how GOD sees it. God sees all things in a total eternal continuum not like we do. I might know what my children will choose because I know them so well. God on the other hand sees the whole of our lives and choices fully & completely. He would have already known you had swerved to miss the dog too... You fail to understand the depth of God's omnipotence and nature it seems to me. He doesn't make the choices for us - since we are finite creatures we always have the choice. HE being an infinite, eternal and perfected holy BEING isn't confined to the finite and narrow constraints that we are.

HE knows all things because of who HE IS. Likewise we are free to choose because of WHO we are in this mortal existence.

Just because He knows something will happen doesn't make Him the cause of the happening.

Like my favorite football team has a lot of injuries and they were going up against a great opponent. I knew they were going to lose. And I was right. They still had free will and played the game. My knowing the outcome had no bearing on how they performed (pitifully to say the best).

Although God has the ability to look into the future he does not always use it. Neither does he predetermine our lives and everything that will happen in our lives. That is why he gives us free will. He allows us to make our own choices in life.

God knows the choices you will make. If God KNOWS you ran over a dog, then you will make the choices that cause that to happen....His knowing is a consequences of the choices you will make. The reality you carve by your choices

His knowlege does not mold your choices

This question is the the product of limited thinking.

But the dogs dog Friend was right next to him and you just ran over him.

The standard argument, already used here, is that God's knowledge of what you will do does not make you do it. This argument only works if God is not your creator. In other words, it's utter nonsense.

You can swerve but if your meant to hit the dog, you're going to hit the dog.

wow.. so God did not know you were going to swerve?