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You are the one misunderstanding. When you are sitting there with the menu in front of you, what is doing the “choosing” in the end? What is causing you to rule out this dish or that?
Got food poisoning from eating salmon that one time? Better not order that then, you’d get nauseous just looking at it.
Grew up eating tamales? Of course you love them, but mostly the ones that taste similar to the ones your parents made.
Your parents fed you a ton of sugar as a kid? Well now you’re gonna want something sweet for dessert.
You had a bad day, you’re gonna want some comfort food.
You have a lifetime of experience behind you dictating your preferences, beliefs, values, epigenetic state, hormone balance, and current state of mind.
Note about god, they are supposedly the ones who set this whole sequence of events into motion. God would know that, given an initial state that they set up, the series of events of the universe would eventually lead to you picking tamales on the menu. Or pasta. Or honey glazed chicken. But that is more of a question of determinism, whether starting over at the same initial state would lead to the same current state of the universe. But given god is supposedly omniscient, they should know all the branching possibilities from the initial state in addition to which one the universe will tumble down.
In other words, if god is real, and they are omniscient and omnipotent, then literally everything that happens is their fault.
Those things might all influence the choice you make on the menu, but none of them forces you to choose anything. You're still the one making the choice. The things you've mentioned are about the web of conditionality, not determinism.
And your second to last paragraph assumes predestination, which not all christian denominations believe. So that argument only applies to presbyterians and other calvinists. And anyone who buys the prosperity gospel scam.
And which part of you is the “you” making that final choice? Which part evaluates all of the conditions to make the decision, the part that isn’t determined by your hormones and brain chemistry at the time?
Surely you’re not going to tell me it’s the soul, unless you have evidence that it exists at all.