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Yes, it does take away our ability to choose. If I watch Jurassic Park, I KNOW that the lawyer is going to run and hide in the toilet, even at the beginning of the movie. Can the lawyer choose to do something different? No. He CAN'T choose to do something different. Hence, he has no choice.

Then maybe you need to learn how to communicate more clearly. You gave no reason. You just said, "It IS the case." And then you cited support which said it was an open question and there was no indisputable answer. How have you measured God to determine this? Nevertheless, time must be...

Believing two contradictory positions at the same time sure seems irrational to me...

You have not been able to show it. And claiming it is does not prove that it is. It seems quite simple to me. If God knows the future in exact detail, and is never wrong, then anything that God sees with his future-vision is absolutely guaranteed to occur. It MUST occur in exactly the way God...

And pray tell, what part of that is nonsense?

If my life MUST play out the way they have foreseen it, then I do not have free will.

No, it is you claiming I am wrong while providing absolutely nothing to support your assertion I am wrong. That's not a rebuttal. The way I see it, either God knows the future or he doesn't. How is this not the case?

No, it means it is literally impossible for me to select another option. And if some alleged option is impossible to select, then it's not really an option. Thus I have no choice.

It would seem God would be required to do this! Otherwise God could tell someone, "Hey, Tiberius will wear the blue shirt tomorrow." Then the person says, "Hey, God told me that it's 100% certain that you will wear the blue shirt tomorrow." And then I say, "We'll see about that!" And then I cut...

It doesn't matter how many choices I appear to have. If God can tell someone what shirt I will wear tomorrow, and God's information can't possibly be wrong, then any other outcome becomes impossible.

You seem to miss the point. If I WILL choose a particular option, it is indeed the case that I CANNOT choose another option.

I disagree, but that's a discussion for another thread. God either knows my future or he doesn't. There's no middle ground.

Thuis reducing the number of possibilities to ONE, and therefore it is not a choice, since a choice requires two or more possibilities.

The choice is invalidated because as soon as the result of my "choice" is known BEFORE I make the "choice," there is only one possible option. Since you defined "choice" as requiring two or more possibilities, and since now there is only one possibility, it is clearly no longer a choice.

No it hasn't. There are no arguments for God that don't include some kind of logical fallacy. Completely irrelevant. Is it possible for God to come to you TODAY and tell you what colour shirt I will wear tomorrow? Yes or no please.

But he COULD tell you today what shirt I will wear tomorrow, couldn't he?

Are you suggesting that God is not omniscient? You might have missed that word "IF" that was in there.

Did I say that God makes the choice? No I did not. I am saying that God's knowledge means that I don't have a choice.

Special pleading. So let's say that right now, God comes to you and says, "I absolutely guarantee that Tiberius will wear the blue shirt tomorrow." This is BEFORE I make my choice. Is my choice tomorrow already set in stone or not?

So it depends on my free will. Which means that he can't know ANYTHING about it until I make the choice. So he can't know it today if I'm not going to choose until tomorrow. So if it's not possible for me to CHOOSE to wear the red shirt if God KNOWS I will wear the blue shirt, I have no choice.