I get where you're coming from, but IMO the comparison still holds in an important way. Even though God knows what will happen, that doesn't mean He is controlling every move like a script. Think of it like a parent (I already used "a friend"
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) who knows their child so well, they can predict when they’ll make a bad decision—but that doesn’t mean they made the decision for them. The child is still acting freely, and the parent’s knowledge doesn’t override that freedom. God’s omniscience is about knowing the outcome, not dictating every choice along the way.
When it comes to free will, it's not about whether God
can be surprised but whether He gives us the ability to make meaningful choices. Eve and Adam had the freedom to act. God knew what they'd choose, but that foreknowledge doesn’t remove their responsibility or their ability to choose differently in theory. They weren’t “scripted” to fail—foreseeing something doesn’t mean forcing it to happen. The plan, if anything, includes the freedom to choose and the opportunity for redemption afterward, not some predestined failure.
You can still believe in God's omniscience
and human free will without a contradiction. It’s more nuanced than a rigid "God wrote the script" view. So, you can have both: a God who is omniscient and humans who have free will. God’s foreknowledge doesn’t strip away our freedom; it respects it while working within it. This perspective preserves both God’s omniscience and the meaningfulness of our choices.