"Does God know or does He not know that a certain individual will be good or bad? If thou sayest 'He knows', then it necessarily follows that the man is compelled to act as God knew beforehand how he would act, otherwise, God's knowledge would be imperfect.…"
-Moses Maimonides
Well, yeah, from our perspective it seems like that because we experience time in a straight line, and we don't know what's going to happen in the future. But since God already knows everything that is about to happen, that means the future is fixed, and cannot be changed. We humans just have...
I think either omnipotence or omniscience should be subtracted, since they logically can't co-exist. Even preachers agree that God can't do illogical things, like making a burrito so big that even he can't eat it.
I would say you are from wherever you identify with. Now obviously you can't identify with a place you've never been to. I was born in India and I moved to the U.S. Although I am technically "from" India, I speak with an American accent and follow American celebrities and politicians. So I guess...