Total Depravity

Slaves can't set themselves free.
Your message is a little convoluted. On the one hand you have people freeing themselves. On the other hand, in the example you give, God has to free them. Which is it?

Making metaphysical assertions without scriptural support is not persuasive.

What scripture says God is already present in the future?

Read the book of Revelation?
God is telling us what was to be as if it were being.
He already knows the future.

Oh
In simple terms

We are slaves... we can not free ourselves.... we are stuck and all our efforts will fail....

But God offers us a way to be free.
GOD GAVE US HIS SON. Jesus came to set us free.

Who me? Is trying to persuade you?

That's the Holy Spirit's job.

Scripture shows that God already knows some of the future. And scripture says He is able to predict some future events is because He has the power to make His predictions happen.

Isaiah 46:11 New King James Version (NKJV)Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it.

He is not predicting a future that already exists. He is predicting a future event He will bring into existence.

Correct. And He uses scripture derived from Hebrew culture, not metaphysical claims derived from the Greeks.

The Cross was the price to purchase a slave.

God is not limited as you are limited....

Better not read Paul in the Greek text then.
He copped many a Greek concept and even used their terminology to reveal how God works in us.....
If, He in fact, is able to work in us.

Oh
In simple terms

We are slaves... we can not free ourselves.... we are stuck and all our efforts will fail....

But God offers us a way to be free.
GOD GAVE US HIS SON. Jesus came to set us free.

We have to make a choice. Will we by faith except the gift of salvation or will we stay slaves to sin.

Can you see the choice we are able make.
When love is shown to us and we see the difference between what Jesus offers and what the world offers. When we choose to ALLOW Jesus to help us, our hearts are changed.

We need to tell the world about the cure, about the freedom that Jesus wants to give us.

Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

If it is already decided why are we told to teach ALL.

Do you have any examples of this alleged Pauline adoption of Platonism?

Men love darkness, not the light. None seek after God. You have to change this about a person or the gospel will be foolishness to them. So, salvation must begin with a work of God.

Perhaps?
Keep in mind.... Romans 1:18b-20

grace and peace ................

Isaiah 46:10 does not state that God has exhaustive foreknowledge of all things. Nor does it state that everything that happens is God's pleasure. Nor does it state that all things that will ever be were declared or determined before the beginning of the world. Nor does it state that future events are already a done deal.

You should stop misrepresenting what God says as though He is saying something else. We should all pay more careful attention to what He actually says and actually does not say in His word.

If the future is a series of probability functions that only collapse into certainty when they become the present, that is how God would know the future: as uncertain possibilities

Yes but Paul says what is obvious is His "divine nature and eternal power". That is very general and impersonal. It doesn't really define the specifics of His nature. If that was all we had of His word, how well would we really know God?

Nor have I used the verse to declare any of those things. You stated God can only know the future as uncertain possibilities.

Isaiah 46:10 says God declares the end from the beginning and things before they occur. He is not declaring uncertainties. You seem to keep missing that point.

Maybe you should also pay attention to another Isaiah passage and stop treating Him as if He is like men.

Isaiah 55:8
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

Maybe you should pay attention to the same scripture and pull back from indicting God with the entailment of being the originator of all the world's evils.

The only reason I cited definitions for probability function and probability density field is that I had mentioned the former and you claimed I had said the latter, and they are clearly not exactly the same concept.

You are making a nonsense argument from your misunderstanding of quantum physics and bound particles. Bound particles synchronise simultaneously, that is instantaneously, that is in the same present. You are making the ridiculous assertion that if the two bound particles are on opposite sides of universe and a change is induced in one, and the other instantaneously conforms to the first, the second particle is really foretelling what the first will do because (you claim) information cannot be communicated faster than the speed of light. But you have just cited an example of information communicating instantaneously acoss light years of space. Light-years is a metric of distance, not of time.

My claim is that the future is a bouquet of constantly branching probability functions, and the further from the present one extends one's anticipation of events the exponentially more possibilities there are, making te future uncertain. The only way God can predict a future event as certain is for Him to intervene in events using His omnipotence to ensure an event to happens as predicted. And the only way God could be able to predict all future events would be formHim to be continuously intevening in events using His omnipotence to ensure that every event happens exactly as He has predetermined it to do. That would make g\God the Author of every evil that occurs.

Now, I have had enough of your foolish pretending to understand quantum physics work. Your theories do not match observation. They are based on metaphysical presupposition that are not found in scripture, and the conclusions they lead to contradict scripture. You may carry on if you want, but I am done with your quantum physics nonsense proofs.